Melita zeylanica Stebbing 1904

242. Melita zeylanica Stebbing, 1904 Type locality: Sri Lanka. Distribution. World: Sri Lanka (Stebbing 1904), Mozambique, South Africa (Barnard1955), India (Sivaprakasam 1966). India: Western India Ecoregion: Kerala (Pillai 1967; Nair et al. 1983; Dev Roy et al. 2009); Arabian Sea (Surya Rao 1972); South India Ecoregion: Tamil Nadu (Sivaprakasam 1966); Northern Bay of Bengal Ecoregion: Bay of Bengal (Surya Rao 1972); Andaman and Nicobar Islands Ecoregion: Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Das & Dev Roy 1984, 1989; Nandi & Dev Roy 2009). Genus: Verdeia Lowry & Springthorpe, 2007Published 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 pages 72-73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5340.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/832409