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Plesionika edwardsii

Description

Plesionika edwardsii (Brandt, 1851)

Pandalus Guerinii Risso, 1844: 95. [nomen nudum]

Pandalus (Pontophilus) Edwardsii Brandt, 1851: 122; nomen novum for Pandalus narval H. Milne Edwards, 1841 [in H. Milne Edwards, 1836–1844], nec Astacus Narval Fabricius, 1787. [Mediterranean, type locality designated by Chan & Yu, 1991]

Pandalus (Parapandalus) longirostris Borradaile, 1900: 413; Plate 37, fig. 10a–h. [New Britain]

Plesionika edwardsii; Chan & Crosnier 1997: 193 –194, fig. 23; Fransen 2014b: 176–177.

Material examined. RMNH. CRUS.D.57269: 1 specimen, total length 18cm, Curaçao, depth 299m (980ft), 16.xii.2015, dive with submersible Curasub, collected by A. ‘Dutch’ Schrier. RMNH. CRUS.D.57270: 1 specimen, Curaçao, 12°05'03"N 68°53'55"W, depth 299m (980ft), 9.ii.2017, dive with submersible Curasub, collected by A. ‘Dutch’ Schrier & Gabriel Olthof.

Distribution. Western Atlantic: South Carolina, USA, Bahamas, Cuba west to Gulf of Mexico, south to Suriname, including the Antilles. Eastern Atlantic: from northwest Spain south to Sierra Leone (some records as far south as Angola); Mediterranean, except the Adriatic and the Black Seas. Also recorded from the Red Sea and Indian Ocean and Indo-West Pacific, as far as Indonesia and the Philippines.

Remarks. The present specimens fit the diagnoses given by Fransen (2014b).

Notes

Published as part of Olthof, Gabriël, Becking, Leontine E. & Fransen, Charles H. J. M., 2018, On a collection of deep-water shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Dutch Caribbean, with the description of a new species of Pseudocoutierea, pp. 533-548 in Zootaxa 4415 (3) on page 537, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4415.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/1242209

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Pandalidae
Genus
Plesionika
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Brandt
Species
edwardsii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Plesionika edwardsii (Brandt, 1851) sec. Olthof, Becking & Fransen, 2018

References

  • Brandt, J. F. (1851) Krebse. In: Middendorff, A. T. von (Ed.), Reise in den aussersten Norden und osten Sibiriens wahrend der Jahre 1843 und 1844 mit allerhochter Genehmigung auf Veranstaltung der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg ausgefuhrt und in Verbindung mit vielen Gelehrten herausgegeben, 2 (Theil 1), 77 - 148. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 53712
  • Chan, T. - Y. & Crosnier, A. (1991) Crustacea Decapoda: Studies of the Plesionika narval (Fabricius, 1787) group (Pandalidae), with descriptions of six new species. In: Crosnier, A. (Ed.), Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM Vol. 9. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, 152, pp. 413 - 461.
  • Chan, T. - Y. & Crosnier, A. (1997) Crustacea Decapoda: Deep-sea shrimps of the genus Plesionika Bate, 1888 (Pandalidae) from French Polynesia, with descriptions of five new species. In: Crosnier, A. (Ed.), Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Vol. 18. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle (A), 176, pp. 187 - 234.