Elasmopus rapax Costa 1853

217. Elasmopus rapax Costa, 1853 Type locality: Gulf of Taranto. Synonyms: Elasmopus affinis Della Valle, 1893; Elasmopus congoensis Shoemaker, 1920; Gammarus brevicaudatus H. Milne Edwards, 1830 sensu Spence Bate, 1857; Maera brevicaudata (Spence Bate, 1862); Megamoera brevicaudata Spence Bate, 1862. Distribution. World: Gulf of Taranto (Costa 1853), South Africa (Barnard 1955), Mediterranean Sea (Ayari 2004), Gulf of Mexico (Felder & Camp 2009), Greece (Koukouras 2010), Caribbean Sea, Cuba (Miloslavich et al. 2010), North Atlantic Ocean (Borges et al. 2010), Ireland (Guiry & Guiry 2011), India (Sivaprakasam 1968a). India: Western India Ecoregion: Arabian Sea (Surya Rao 1972); South India Ecoregion: Tamil Nadu (Sivaprakasam 1968a); Northern Bay of Bengal Ecoregion: Bay of Bengal (Surya Rao 1972).Published as part of Thacker, Dimple, Patel, Krupal, Myers, Alan, Guerra-García, José M., Zeidler, Wolfgang & Trivedi, Jigneshkumar, 2023, Annotated Checklist of Marine Amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of India, pp. 1-90 in Zootaxa 5340 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5340.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/832409