216. Elasmopus pectenicrus (Spence Bate, 1862)

Type locality: New Guinea, Australia .

Synonyms: Elasmopus serrula Walker, 1904; Maera pectenicrus Spence Bate, 1862 .

Distribution. World: Australia (Spence Bate 1862), North Atlantic Ocean (Bellan-Santini & Costello 2001), Caribbean Sea, Egypt (Molnar et al. 2008), Gulf of Mexico (Felder & Camp 2009), Cuba (Miloslavich et al. 2010), Mediterranean Sea (Ounifi- Ben Amor et al. 2015), India (Gravely 1927).

India: South India Ecoregion: Tamil Nadu (Gravely 1927; Nayar 1959, 1966; Sivaprakasam 1966; Sivaprakasam 1968a); Eastern India Ecoregion: Tamil Nadu (Nayar 1959; Sivaprakasam 1966; Sivaprakasam 1968a; Venkataraman 2007); Northern Bay of Bengal Ecoregion: Bay of Bengal (Surya Rao 1972).