Description:-
Female. Body elongated and cylindrical, measuring 1.69-1.94 mm long. Head longer than wide, with small rounded knob at each anterolateral corner and ventrally protruded oral region. First pediger narrower than head. Second pediger with remaining prosomal somites fused into a long, cylindrical trunk bearing a pair of posterolateral processes. Genital double somite slightly longer than wide and abdomen distinctly wider than long. Caudal ramus spiniform, pointed process bearing four setae. Egg sac about as long as trunk. Antennule fleshy and inflated; antenna two-segmented; terminal segment sharply curved and covered with minute tubercles on terminal area of basal half before bend. Labrum with smooth, straight posterior margin. Mandible two-segmented; terminal blade with 31 to 33 teeth on convex (inner) side and 28 to 32 teeth on concave (outer) side. Paragnath a small spinulose lobe. Maxillule with two terminal elements. Maxilla two-segmented; first segment robust and unarmed; second segment bearing one small, simple, basal seta, one large seta with hyaline tip and a row of 22 to 29 teeth on terminal process.
References:-
Ju-Shey Ho, Il-Hoi Kim & A. Biju Kumar (2000). Chondracanthid copepods parasitic on flatfishes of Kerala, India. Journal of Natural History, 34: 709-735.