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Additional records of the deep-sea scissor-foot shrimp Psalidopus huxleyi Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1892 (Decapoda: Caridea: Psalidopodidae) from the Arabian and Andaman Seas, India


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1 Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, Atal Bhavan, LNG Terminus Road, Puthuvype, Kochi, Kerala – 682 508, India

In this paper, a taxonomic account of the rare deep-sea caridean shrimp Psalidopus huxleyi Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1892 is provided based on four specimens collected during exploratory cruises onboard the “Fishery Oceanographic Research Vessel Sagar Sampada” in the Andaman Sea (635 meters depth) and the Southeastern Arabian Sea (957 m). This species has often been recorded from the Western Pacific Ocean, but this study represents the rediscovery of the species from localities close to the type localities since its original description.

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Deep Sea, Northern Indian Ocean, Psalidopodidae, Shrimps, Taxonomy
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  • Additional records of the deep-sea scissor-foot shrimp Psalidopus huxleyi Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1892 (Decapoda: Caridea: Psalidopodidae) from the Arabian and Andaman Seas, India

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Kuberan G
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, Atal Bhavan, LNG Terminus Road, Puthuvype, Kochi, Kerala – 682 508, India
V P Padate
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, Atal Bhavan, LNG Terminus Road, Puthuvype, Kochi, Kerala – 682 508, India
Sendhil Kumar R
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, Atal Bhavan, LNG Terminus Road, Puthuvype, Kochi, Kerala – 682 508, India
S S Cubelio
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, Atal Bhavan, LNG Terminus Road, Puthuvype, Kochi, Kerala – 682 508, India

Abstract


In this paper, a taxonomic account of the rare deep-sea caridean shrimp Psalidopus huxleyi Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1892 is provided based on four specimens collected during exploratory cruises onboard the “Fishery Oceanographic Research Vessel Sagar Sampada” in the Andaman Sea (635 meters depth) and the Southeastern Arabian Sea (957 m). This species has often been recorded from the Western Pacific Ocean, but this study represents the rediscovery of the species from localities close to the type localities since its original description.

Keywords


Deep Sea, Northern Indian Ocean, Psalidopodidae, Shrimps, Taxonomy