↑Fons nominis: "Hab[itat] Oceanum Indicum. . . . [Inhabits] Indian Ocean," Edward Belcher, The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the years 1843–1846: Crustacea, p. 23 (de Halimo aurito (Majidarum).
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↑"India occupies the central position in the Indian-Ocean region[;] that is why the Ocean was named after India." Anand Mathur, Liber apud googleIndo-American relations : foreign policy orientations and perspectives of P. V. Narasimha Rao and Bill Clinton, apud situm books.google.co.in, p. 138.
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