Mallacoota insignis

224. Mallacoota insignis (Chevreux, 1901) Type locality: Mahe Island, Seychelles. Synonyms: Elasmopus insignis Chevreux, 1901; Maera insignis Chevreux, 1901. Distribution. World: Seychelles (Chevreux 1901), India (Sivaprakasam 1968a). India: Western India Ecoregion: Arabian Sea (Surya Rao 1972 as Maera insignis Chevreux, 1901); South India Ecoregion: Tamil Nadu (Sivaprakasam 1968a as Maera insignis Chevreux, 1901); Maldives Ecoregion: Lakshadweep Islands (Susan et al. 2014); Northern Bay of Bengal Ecoregion: Bay of Bengal (Surya Rao 1972 as Maera insignis Chevreux, 1901).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 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5340.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/832409