Grandidierella gilesi Chilton, 1921

Thacker, Dimple R., Patro, Shesdev, Bhoi, Gitanjali, Myers, Alan A., Kumar, R. Kiran & Trivedi, Jigneshkumar N., 2025, On the genus Grandidierella Coutière, 1904 (Amphipoda: Aoridae) of India with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 5716 (4), pp. 451-482 : 476-477

Grandidierella gilesi Chilton, 1921

Grandidierella gilesi Chilton, 1921: 552 , fig. 2.

Grandidierella gilesi — Chilton, 1925: 537.—K.H. Barnard, 1935: 300, fig. 12a.— Schellenberg, 1938: 93.— Nayar, 1959: 40, pl. 14, fig. 6.— Sivaprakasam, 1970: 157.— Ledoyer, 1979: 152, fig. 8II.— Myers, 1981: 222, fig. 6.— Asari & Myers, 1982: 248, figs 7, 8.— Ledoyer, 1982: 249, fig. 9I.— Myers, 2002: 220.— Ren, 2006: 370, fig. 157.— Wongkamhaeng, Hongpadharakiree & Chotikarn, 2016: 54, figs 2–5.

Diagnosis. Male gnathopod 1 ischium and merus lacking posterodistal projection; merus to propodus heavily setose posteromedially; carpus with 2 posterodistal teeth; propodus straight. Male gnathopod 2, coxa without posteromedial projection; basis straight; merus divergent posteriorly, posterodistal margin with many long setae; carpus and propodus same in size, elongate, heavily setose posteromedially, propodus posterodistal corner with 2 short robust setae; dactylus very short. Uropod 1 with an inter-ramal process.

Remarks. Chilton (1921) first described this species on the basis of the specimens collected from Chilika Lake, Odisha, India. After that it was reported several times from various localities. However, it was not described or illustrated sufficiently until Ansari and Myers (1982) gave the detailed description and illustrations on the basis of specimens collected from Killai backwaters, Tamil Nadu, India.

Distribution. India ( Chilton 1921); Talé Sap, Thailand ( Chilton 1925), Lapinig, Philippines ( Schellenberg 1938); Bay of Nhatrang ( Imbach 1967); Java, Indonesia ( Ledoyer 1979); Australia ( Myers 1981); Maros (Ortiz & Lalana 1999); Phuket ( Myers 2002); Hainan Island, China ( Ren 2006); Bangkok ( Wongkamhaeng et al. 2016) and Iriomote Island, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan ( Ariyama 2020). In India, the species is reported from Odisha ( Chilton 1921); Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh ( Barnard 1935); Tamil Nadu ( Panikkar & Aiyar 1937; Nayar 1959; Lyla et al. 1998; Asari & Myers 1982; Lyla et al. 2004; Venkataraman 2007; Mondal et al. 2010; Thilagavathi et al. 2013).