Lycomysis spinicauda Hansen, 1910

Yolanda, Rofiza, Ambarwati, Reni, Rahayu, Dwi Anggorowati, Budijastuti, Widowati, Fitrihidajati, Herlina, Kuntjoro, Sunu, Rachmadiarti, Fida & Purnomo, Tarzan, 2023, An annotated checklist of the species of Lopogastrida and Mysida (Crustacea Peracarida) from Thailand and its adjacent waters, Zootaxa 5244 (3), pp. 201-232 : 216

Lycomysis spinicauda Hansen, 1910

= Lycomysis pusilla Zimmer, 1915

Type locality. Butung Strait , Indonesia ( Hansen 1910) .

Record from Thailand. South-eastern Andaman Sea, next to Phuket Island ( Fukuoka & Murano 2002).

Habitat and depth range. Marine, depth: 19–60 m ( Fukuoka & Murano 2002) .

Distribution. This species is known from Indonesia ( Hansen 1910), Sri Lanka to New Guinea ( Zimmer 1915), South China Sea ( Colosi 1919; Liu & Wang 1986), Andaman Islands (W.M. Tattersall 1922), Andaman Sea ( Fukuoka & Murano 2002; Biju & Panampunnayil 2011) and Malaysia ( Gan et al. 2010; Tan & Azman 2018)

Remarks. The species Lycomysis spinicauda is very similar in appearance to L. platycauda , however, the first species is recognized by the following characteristics: the apex of the telson is subtruncate, with two pairs of long spines and two pairs of very short spines and the uropodal endopod is without spines; while in the latter species, the apex of the telson is rounded, with five pairs of long spines and uropodal endopod is armed with four spines below the statocyst ( Biju & Panampunnayil 2011).