Halymenia venusta Børgesen, 1932b: 124–125, fig. 11, pl. V (type locality: Dwarka, Gujarat, India).—Børgesen, 1934b: 35.— Lind, 1956: 26.— K. Srinivasan, 1965: 245.— S. Dixit, 1966: 14.— K. Srinivasan, 1969: 18, pl. XVIII.— H. Dave, Sitakara Rao, & Tipnis, 1970: 69.— Gopalakrishnan, 1970: 64.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 20.— Gopalakrishnan, 1971: tables I, II, IV.— Chauhan & Mairh, 1978: 35.— Murthy, Bhattacharya, & Radia, 1978: 382.— Moorjani, 1980b: 463, 466.— Sreenivasa Rao & Parekh, 1981: 578.— Ohno & Mairh, 1982: table 1.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [30].— R. Parekh et al., 1984: table 1.— Jagtap, 1985a: 47.— Shunula, 1985: 66, table 1.— M. Dave et al., 1987: table 1.— Jagtap, 1987: table 1.— R. Parekh & Chauhan, 1987: table 1.— R. Parekh et al., 1987: 274.— Banaimoon, 1988a: 219, fig. 9.— Moorjani & Simpson, 1988: 30, pl. 61.— Desikachary, V. Krishnamurthy, & M. Balakrishnan, 1990: 251–252, pls. XXXV, XXXVI.— R. Parekh & Chauhan, 1990: table 1.— Yarish & Wamukoya, 1990: 343, table 2.— Kamat et al., 1991: 56.— Sridharan et al., 1991: 202.— Bhakuni et al., 1992: 515.— Kaliaperumal et al., 1992: 13.— Subba Rao et al., 1992: 181, 182.— Rama Rao et al., 1993: 106.— Wynne, 1993: 10.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 118.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Andaman Islands, India, Kenya, Laccadive Islands, Maldives, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Yemen.