Heterocarpus tricarinatus Alcock & Anderson, 1894

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 : 368

Heterocarpus tricarinatus Alcock & Anderson, 1894

Heterocarpus tricarinatus Alcock & Anderson, 1894: 154 [type locality: Arabian Sea off Byramgore Reef, Laccadive Islands]; Chace, 1985: 41, Fig. 13o.

Material examined. – 2 females, CN K69 B-33, South China Sea, 19 ° 00'N 113 ° 30'E, 1100 m, soft mud, AT, coll. Xiutong Ma, 13 Jul.1959 ; 1 female, CN 40 , Nansha Islands , 9º49.82'N 117º47.98'E, 1241 m, AT, 9 Aug.1988 .

Distribution. – South Africa to Indonesia, South China Sea, Philippines; at depths of 1046-2000 m.

Remarks. – Although the width of dorsomedian carina on the third abdominal somite is about 0.35 of the carina length, between 0.30 and 0.40 that Crosnier (1988) used to distinguished the two subspecies of H. tricarinatus , the lateral margins of the carina are distinct and therefore can be referred to the subspecies H. tricarinatus angustus Crosnier, 1988 . Not previously reported from the South China Sea.