Bathypelagic Shrimp of the Genus Pasiphaea (Decapoda: Caridea: Pasiphaeidae) from Waters Around Taiwan, with Descriptions of Four New Species

Type Article
Date 2012-03
Language English
Author(s) Komai Tomoyuki2, Lin Chia-Wei1, 3, Chan Tin-Yam4, 5
Affiliation(s) 1 : Natl Museum Marine Biol & Aquarium, Dept Biol, Checheng 944, Pingtung, Taiwan.
2 : Nat Hist Museum & Inst, Chuo Ku, Chiba 2608682, Japan.
3 : Natl Dong Hwa Univ, Inst Marine Biodivers & Evolutionary Biol, Shoufeng 97401, Hualien, Taiwan.
4 : Natl Taiwan Ocean Univ, Inst Marine Biol, Keelung 20224, Taiwan.
5 : Natl Taiwan Ocean Univ, Ctr Excellence Marine Bioenvironm & Biotechnol, Keelung 20224, Taiwan.
Source Journal Of Crustacean Biology (0278-0372) (Crustacean Soc), 2012-03 , Vol. 32 , N. 2 , P. 295-325
DOI 10.1163/193724011X615550
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Keyword(s) Caridea, Pasiphaea, Taiwan
Abstract

The bathypelagic shrimp genus Pasiphaea Savigny, 1816 (Caridea: Pasiphaeidae) has been previously known from Taiwan from only three species. However, recent deep-sea surveys around the island have collected numerous specimens comprising ten species, of which four are new to science: P. aeons n. sp., P alcocki (Wood-Mason and Alcock, 1891), P exilimanus n. sp., P. falx n. sp., P japonica Omori, 1976, P. mclaughlinae Hayashi, 2006, P levicarinata Hanamura, 1994, P orientalis Schmitt, 1931, P. sirenkoi Burukovsky, 1987 and P. taiwanica n. sp. The four new species are fully described and illustrated, and compared with allied congeners. Pasiphaea orientalis is redescribed, as this species is endemic to Taiwan and its original description is inadequate. Amongst the three new records of Taiwan, P. levicarinata is also recorded for the first time from the northwestern Pacific.

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