Pumiliopsis spathepedes sp. nov., a cyclopoid copepod Parasitic on the eye of Sardinella sirm

The female of a new sipecies of copepod parasit;, Pumiliapsis spathepedes is described from the eye of the sardine, Sardinella sirm from Tut'corin, South East Coast of India. It was been compared with the only other known species in this genus namely P. sardinellae. The species can easily be distingu'shed from all the other bomolochids hitherto known by the enormously developed fifth leg