Plesionika narval ( Fabricius, 1787 )

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 : 370

Plesionika narval ( Fabricius, 1787)

Astacus Narval Fabricius, 1787: 331 [type locality: probably Nice, Mediterranean].

Plesionika narval – Lemaitre & Gore, 1988: 385, Fig. 3 k-m, 4; Chan & Crosnier, 1991: 443, Figs. 12a-c, 13a, 14a-c, 15a-e, 34-36; Li & Komai, 2003: 265.

Material examined. – 2 males, 2 females, CN 6-1 , South China Sea , 18 ° 30'N 110 ° 30'E, 112 m, sandy mud, AT, coll. Jixing Liu, 27 Jan.1959 ; 1 male, CN K66 B-47, South China Sea , 20 ° 00'N 113 ° 00'E, 117 m, muddy sand, AT, coll. Xiutong Ma, 11 Jul.1959 ; 1 juvenile, CN N138 B-21B, South China Sea , 18 ° 30'N 110 ° 15'E, 51.3 m, soft mud, BT, coll. Shoupeng Shen, 9 Mar.1960 ; 5 males, 9 ovigerous females, CN SSBIII17-57 , Nansha Islands , 6 ° 29.50'N 108 ° 15.77'E, 94 m, muddy sand, AT, 7 May.1986 ; 1 ovigerous female, CN SSIVB46-33 , Nansha Islands , 4 ° 00.00'N 109 ° 59.70'E, 99 m, muddy sand, AT, 15 May.1987 ; 1 male, 1 female, CN 8 , Nansha Islands , 5º19.68'N 112º05.54'E, 127 m, muddy sand, AT, coll. Zhican Tang, 31 Jul.1988 ; 1 ovigerous female, CN 90 C-0116B, Qinglan, Hainan Island , trawling, 5 Nov.1990 ; 50 ex., CN 93 NS12-1, Nansha Islands , no detailed locality data, 107 m, fishing net, coll. Shaowu Wang, 2 May.1993 ; 3 males, 2 ovigerous females, CN 93 NS17-2, Nansha Islands, Nansha Islands , no detailed locality data, 106 m, fishing net, coll. Shaowu Wang, 4 May.1993 ; 1 male, CN CJ97 C-433, Sanya fishing harbor, Hainan Island , coll. Xinzheng Li, 28 Nov.1997 .

Distribution. – Mediterranean, eastern Atlantic from Gibraltar to Cape Verde Islands, South Atlantic, Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific from Madagascar to French Polynesia and northward to Japan, at depths of 35- 400 m.

Remarks. – Not previously reported from the Nansha Islands.

Figures

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.