Nerocila sigani Bowman and Tareen, 1983

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Nerocila sigani Bowman and Tareen, 1983

Nerocila sigani Bowman & Tareen, 1983: 12 , fig. 9.— Bruce, 1987b: 406 —Bruce & Harrisson-Nelson 1988: 597–598.— Trilles, 1994: 100.— Kensley 2001: 234.— Kazmi, Schotte & Yousuf, 2002: 104, fig. 89.— Trilles, Ravichandran & Rameshkumar, 2011:453.— Trilles, Rameshkumar & Ravichandran, 2013:1273–1286, figs 2i, 3e–h, 4, 5f–j.—Rameshkumar, Ravichandran, Sivasubramanian & Trilles, 2013c: 42, fig. 1i.— Roy & Mitra, 2013: 1134–1135, fig. 1.—Anand Kumar, Rameshkumar, Ravichandran, Nagarajan, Prabakaran & Ramesh, 2017: 3–5, fig 2e.— Ravichandran, Vigneshwaran & Rameshkumar, 2019: 60 , 61.

Type material. Female holotype, National Museum of National History ( USNM 190714 ; see Bowman & Tareen 1983) .

Type locality. Arabian Gulf , Kuwait, South of Faylaka ( Bowman & Tareen 1983) .

Type host. Rabbit fish Siganus canaliculatus (Park, 1797) (formerly Siganus oramin ), caudal fin.

Host. Carangidae , Sciaenidae and Siganidae : Siganus canaliculatus (Park 1797) (formerly Siganus oramin , see Bowman & Tareen 1983; Kazmi et al. 2002; Trilles et al. 2013; Rameshkumar et al. 2013a); Parastromateus niger (Bloch, 1795) ( Bruce & Harrison-Nelson, 1988) and Johnius dussumieri (Cuvier, 1830) (Anand Kumar et al. 2017) .

Distribution. Arabian Sea ( Bowman & Tareen, 1983; Kazmi et al. 2002); India, southeast coast ( Bruce & Harrison-Nelson, 1988; Trilles et al. 2013; Rameshkumar et al. 2013a); Malaysia, Penang (Bruce & HarrisonNelson 1988), Sarawak (Anand Kumar et al. 2017).

Remarks. Nerocila sigani may be identified by body widest at pereonites 5 and 6; cephalon anteriorly broad, rounded; pereopod dactyli without nodules; pereonites posteroventral angles pointed; coxae long, pointed; coxae 6 and 7 distinctly longer than posteroventral processes of respective pereonites; pleotelson smoothly rounded, without medial lobe; pereopods 1–5 with subequal robust setae; uropod exopod slightly longer than endopod, endopod medial margin with deep notch, lateral margin serrate ( Bowman and Tareen 1983, Trilles et al. 2013).