Plesionika grandis Doflein, 1902

Li, Xinzheng, 2006, Additional Pandaloid Shrimps From The South China Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea), With Description Of One New Species, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54 (2), pp. 361-372 : 369

Plesionika grandis Doflein, 1902

Plesionika spinipes var. grandis Doflein, 1902: 618 , Pl. 3 figs. 3-5 [type locality: Sagami Bay, Japan].

Plesionika grandis – Chace, 1985: 66, Figs. 28, 29; Chan & Crosnier, 1991: 423, Figs. 3f , 22; Li & Komai, 2003: 260.

Material examined. – 9 ex., CN K135 B-30, South China Sea , 19 ° 30'N 113 ° 00'E, 210 m, coarse sand, AT, coll. Shoupeng Shen, 10 Feb.1960 ; 1 male, CN 90 C-0047, Haikou fishery market, Hainan Island, 4 Nov.1990 ; 13 males, 12 females, CN 90 C-0116, Qinglan fishery market, Hainan Island, 5 Nov.1990 ; 2 males, CN SSB2-9 E, Nansha Islands , 8º29.67'N 109º00.42'E, 143 m, coll. Zhican Tang & Baolin Zhang, 17 Sep.1994 ; 4 ovigerous females, CN SSB8-6 B, Nansha Islands , 5º30.70'N 110º30.76'E, 224 m, coll. Zhican Tang & Baolin Zhang, 22 Sep.1994 .

Distribution. – Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific, but known with certainty from Japan, East and South China Seas, Philippines, Indonesia, northwestern Australia, Zanzibar area of eastern Africa and Madagascar, at depths of 110- 375 m.

Remarks. – Not previously reported from the Nansha Islands.

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Fig. 3. Heterocarpus chani, new species: a, third maxilliped; b, same, antipenultimate segment and exopod; c, chela of first pereiopod; d, right second pereiopod; e, dactylus of third pereiopod. Male, paratype (cl 18.5 mm), South China Sea: a-d; Male, paratype (cl 19.6 mm), South China Sea: e. Scale bars: a, d, e = 5 mm; b, c = 1 mm.