Catoessa gruneri Bowman & Tareen, 1983

Catoessa gruneri Bowman & Tareen, 1983: 18–21, figs 14n, 15.— Bruce, 1990: 251.— Aneesh, Helna & Sudha, 2016a: 1270– 1277, fig. 1f.

Joryma brachysoma . — Anandkumar, Rameshkumar, Ravichandran, Nagarajan, Prabakaran & Ramesh, 2017: 55–60, fig. 2f.

Type and type locality. The holotype, deposited at National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM 191070), from South of Faylaka, Kuwait Bay (Persian gulf).

Remarks. Catoessa gruneri can be identified by the body symmetrical, lateral margin of pereon nearly parallel; cephalon pyriform, narrowed anterior to eyes, reflexed ventrally into rounded lobe separating antennula; coxae 2–6 much shorter than their pereonites, coxa 7 only slightly shorter; pleonite 1 partly to nearly completely overlapped by pereonite 7, narrower than rest of pleon; pleonite 1 partly to nearly completely overlapped by pereonite 7, narrower than rest of pleon, pleonites 2–5 about as wide as pereonite 7; epimera directed laterally, narrower than central parts of pleonites, more or less separated from one another by gaps; rounded rostral point and posteriorly narrowed pleotelson; pereopods have without carina on basis; pleonites 2–5 subequal in width, epimera directed laterally; uropods reaching posterior end of pleotelson.

The subsequent reports of Joryma brachysoma are either misidentification or unconfirmed records; Anandkumar et al. ’ s (2017) figure of Joryma brachysoma (Pillai, 1964) from the host Netuma bilineata (Valenciennes, 1840) is a misidentification and refers to C. gruneri based on the morphology.

Distribution. Recorded from the Arabian Gulf, Kuwait (Bowman & Tareen 1983) and most recently reported from the southwest coast of India (Aneesh et al. 2016a).

Hosts. Recorted from Leiognathus fasciatus (Lacepède, 1803), Ilisha melastoma (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (as Ilisha indica), Terapon puta Cuvier, 1829 (as Therapon puta), Leiognathus daura (Cuvier, 1829) (Bowman & Tareen 1983) and Eubleekeria splendens (Cuvier, 1829) (Aneesh et al. 2016a) .