Metaphoxus simplex

31. Metaphoxus simplex (Spence Bate, 1857) Type locality: Plymouth Sound, England. Synonyms: Metaphoxus pectinatus (Walker, 1896); Metaphoxus typicus Bonnier, 1896; Phoxocephalus pectinatus Walker, 1896; Phoxos simplex (Spence Bate, 1857); Phoxus kroyerii Spence Bate, 1857. Distribution. World: England (Spence Bate 1857), France (Dauvin 1999), North Atlantic Ocean (Bellan-Santini & Costello 2001), Bay of Biscay (Bachelet et al. 2003), Greece (Koukouras 2010), Ireland (Guiry & Guiry 2011), India (Thilagavathi et al. 2013). India: South India Ecoregion: Tamil Nadu (Thilagavathi et al. 2013 as Metaphoxus pectinatus (Walker, 1896)); Eastern India Ecoregion: Tamil Nadu (Thilagavathi et al. 2013 as Metaphoxus pectinatus (Walker, 1896)). Remarks: Report from India requires confirmation. Genus: Phoxocephalus Stebbing, 1888Published 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 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5340.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/832409