Plesionika bifurca Alcock & Anderson, 1894

Li, Xinzheng & Komai, Tomoyuki, 2003, Pandaloid Shrimps From The Northern South China Sea, With Description Of A New Species Of Plesionika (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (2), pp. 257-275 : 260

Plesionika bifurca Alcock & Anderson, 1894

Pandalus bifurca Alcock & Anderson, 1894: 155 [type locality: Arabian Sea].

Pandalus (Plesionika) bifurca – Alcock & McArdle, 1901, pl. 52, fig. 6.

Plesionika bifurca – De Man, 1920: 105, 136, pl. 12, fig. 31-31b; Chace, 1985: 56, fig. 24; Liu & Zhong, 1994: 560.

Material examined. – 3 females (cl 9.2-10.2 mm) ( IOCAS) , 1 female ( ZRC), CN 33-48 , 19 00’N, 113 00’E, 465 m, sand, AT, coll. H. Li, 17 Feb.1959 ; 1 female (cl 7.5 mm) ( IOCAS), CN N115 B-X, 18 30’N, 111 30’E, 220 m, muddy sand, AT, coll. J. Liu, 8 Feb.1960 ; 2 ovig. females (cl 9.0, 9.3 mm) ( IOCAS), CN K122 B-50, 19 00’N, 112 30’E, 300 m, sand, AT, coll. S. Shen, 8 Feb.1960 ; 1 male (cl 7.8 mm) ( IOCAS), CN K150 B-37, 19 00’N, 112 30’E, 290 m, muddy sand, AT, coll. Z. Tang, 6 Apr.1960 .

Distribution. – Eastern Africa, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, Indonesia, Philippines, South and East China seas, and Japan; at depths of 220-1412 m.