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Issue: Vol. 1807 No. 1: 23 Jun. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-06-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1807.1.3
Page range: 47–62
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 1

Records of the crangonid shrimp genus Pontocaris Bate, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Chinese waters, with notes on biology of P. pennata Bate, 1888

Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7 Nanhai Road, Qingdao 266071, China Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7 Nanhai Road, Qingdao 266071, China
Crustacea Decapoda Caridea Crangonidae Pontocaris Chinese waters new records

Abstract

Based on the material collected mainly by the National Comprehensive Oceanography Survey (1959) and the ChinaVietnam Comprehensive Oceanographic Survey to Beibu Gulf (Gulf of Tonkin) (1959–1960, 1962) from coastal waters of the mainland of China, four Pontocaris species, P. hilarula (De Man, 1918), P. major Chan, 1996, P. pennata Bate, 1888 and P. sibogae (De Man, 1918), are reported in the present paper, of which the former two are reported for the first time from Chinese waters. The seasonal changes of the population of the most common species, P. pennata, are discussed.

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