Pandalus esca Stimpson Madeira

Reed, Raymond B. Manning Karen J., 2006, Decapod Crustaceans Deposited In The Zoological Museum Of Copenhagen By William Stimpson In 1859, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54 (2), pp. 283-293 : 289

103. Pandalus esca Stimpson Madeira 1 Current name. – Plesionika narval ( Fabricius, 1787) (see Chan & Crosnier, 1991).

ZMC status. – 1 ovigerous female, cl 11.7 mm.

Other repositories. – NHM ( Evans, 1967: 401; syntypes) .

Type status. – Possible type of Pandalus escatilis Stimpson, 1860b: 37 .

Type locality. – Insulam Madeira.

Remarks. – Evans (1967: 401) noted that the material in The Natural History Museum, London, was labeled “ esca ”, which she assumed was an abbreviation.

This species was recognized as Plesionika escatilis by Lemaitre & Gore (1988), and synonymized with Plesionika narval ( Fabricius, 1787) by Chan & Crosnier (1991).