Renocila alkoo Bruce, 1987

Renocila alkoo Bruce, 1987c: 177–178, figs 5, 6.

Rcnocila ovate. — Barnard, 1936: 161, fig. 5.— Trilles, Ravichandran & Rameshkumar, 2011: 453.

Type and type locality. The holotype ovig. female (13.5 mm) held at the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia (QM WIOS 44) from the Bushy Island (Redbill Cay), Great Barrier Reef, Australia .

Remarks. This species can be recognized by the posterolateral margins of pereonites 6-7 weakly produced, laterally bent. Renocila alkoo resemblance to R. ovata but is easily distinguished by having far shorter pereopod dactylus, longer antenna, pereopod 7 manifestly larger than 6 (both with a weakly carinate basis), and posterodistal angle of pereopod 1 basis truncate.

Barnard (1936) recorded Renocila ovata Miers, 1880 from Andaman Islands India, and gave figures of the maxilliped, mandible palp and pereopods 1 and 7 are similar to the illustrations of R. alkoo (Bruce 1987c) . The figure of pereopod 1 differs from material examined by Bruce (1987c) having the posterodistal angle of the basis for more strongly produced, the posterior margin of the ischium carinate, and a shorter dactylus without nodules. Pereopod 7 differs by having a prominent carina on both the basis and ischium. Barnard’s material is not R. ovata, but is probably R. alkoo .

Distribution. Reported from Andaman Islands India (Barnard 1936) and Great Barrier Reef from the Capricorn Group in the south to Swains Reefs and Bushy Island reef off Mackay (Bruce 1987c).

Hosts. Unknown.