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Superfamily Penaeoidea Rafinesque, 1815
Family Sicyoniidae Ortmann, 1898
Genus Sicyonia H. Milne Edwards, 1830
Species
Sicyonia parajaponica
Crosnier, 2003 (Figure 1)
Figure 1 Dorsal view of
Sicyonia parajaponica
4 Synonyms
Sicyonia japonica
Yu and Chan 1986, p. 56
Liu and Zhong 1988, p. 249, fig. 150
Crosnier 1995, p. 193
Sicyonia parajaponica
Crosnier, 2003, p. 226, fig. 10 A-C, 11, 12 A-C and 106 E-F
Thirumilu, 2011, p. 12, fig. 2 a-b
Radhakrishnan et al., 2012, p. 56
Shanis et al., 2013, p. 131, fig. 1, 2 A and B, 3 A and B
Chakraborty, 2017, p. 156
5 Remarks
In general, the present material agrees with the description given by Crosnier (2003) and Shanis et al. (2013). The
important characters observed are 1) both carapace and body robust, covered with scattered tubercles, their tip
marked with red dot, 2) rostral tip bidentate, 3) 5 rostral teeth behind hepatic spine as observed by Crosnier (2003),
Thirumilu (2011) and Shanis et al. (2013) a round red spot with white border near the posterior margin of
carapace.
6 Distribution
India: West coast: off Kollam (Shanis et al., 2013); East coast: off Chennai (Thirumilu, 2011). The present record
from off Thoothukudi, Gulf of Mannar is still further south along the southeast coast of India.
Indo-Pacific: Gulf of Aden, off Phuket in Andaman Sea, the Philippines, China, Taiwan and Australia (Crosnier,
2003).
