| Abstrakt: |
For the first time, a Pinna shell associated shrimp Ensiger custos was documented from the shallow seagrass beds of Palk Bay, India. The shrimp specimen was identified based on the morphological characteristics such as chela of the first pereiopod cannulate, absence of distal teeth on the rostrum, antennal spine minute and dactylus of the second pereiopod with single large triangular tooth in the proximal half. The E. custos was found to be closely related to E. custoides. In the present study, E. custos shrimp was found associated with Pinna bicolor Gmelin 1971. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
