Cymadusa filosa Savigny, 1816

Cymadusa filosa Savigny, 1816: 51, 109, pl. IV, fig. 1a, b, e, i, o, u.— Monod, 1971: 176 –184, figs 66–78.— Krapp-Schickel, 1982: 106 –108, figs 71, 72, key.— Ledoyer, 1983: 130 –135, figs 44–46.— Ledoyer, 1984: 15 –18, figs 5, 6.— Lyons and Myers, 1990: 1203, figs 7, 8.— Peart, 2004: 304, figs 1–4.

Ampithoe filosa .— Audouin, 1826: 93, pl. XI, figs 4, 5.

Grubia hirsuta Chevreux, 1900: 95 –101, figs 1–5.— Chevreux and Fage, 1925: 339 –340, fig. 347.— Schellenberg, 1925: 186 – 187.

Grubia coei Kunkel, 1910: 97, fig. 38.

Grubia filosa .— Ruffo, 1938: 147, 172.— Ruffo, 1947: 169 –173, figs 1–3.— Ruffo, 1959: 19; Ruffo, 1969: 62 –63.— Oliveira, 1953: 358 –364, figs 22, 23.

Grubia sardenta Oliveira, 1953: 365, pls 25, 26.

Cymadusa sardenta .— Sivaprakasam: 1970: 153 –156, fig. 13.

Material. 3 males, 7 females (NHMUK 2015. 3133–3142), grab sample on bare sand benthos in phase A1, Sea City, 25 May 2014, M. Nithyanandan.

Remarks. This species has long caused taxonomic confusion. Peart (2004), redescribed C. filosa and designated a neotype from the Mediterranean Sea (Sardinia). Present material agrees well with Mediterranean material and is therefore attributed to C. filosa Savigny.