Lobonemoides sewelli Rao, 1931
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Family:  Lobonematidae ()
Max. size:  26 cm WD (male/unsexed)
Environment:  pelagic; marine
Distribution:  Eastern Indian Ocean: Mergui Archipelago.
Diagnosis:  26 cm wide, central portion of exumbrella with some scattered papillae; tongue-shaped thickenings at base of velar lappets; 16 rhopalia; between adjacent rhopalia 2 to 6 velar lappets, elongately triangular, 1 to 1.5 cm long; mouth arms 9 to 15.5 cm, with window like openings, without filamentous appendages but with short, rod like appendages scattered amongst the mouths; 16 rhopalar canals reaching margin, 16 inter rhopalar only to ring canal.
Biology: 
IUCN Red List Status: Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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