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Issue: Vol. 4450 No. 5: 27 Jul. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-07-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.5.5
Page range: 581–584
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Two new records of deep sea shrimp under the genus Parapontocaris (Crustacea: Decapoda: Crangonidae) from the southwestern coast of India

Crustacean Fisheries Division, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Ernakulam North P.O., P.B. No. 1603, Cochin-682018, Kerala, India. These authors contributed equally: G. Kuberan, Rekha Devi Chakraborty
These authors contributed equally: G. Kuberan, Rekha Devi Chakraborty Crustacean Fisheries Division, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Ernakulam North P.O., P.B. No. 1603, Cochin-682018, Kerala, India.
Department of Biosciences, Mangalore University, Mangalagangothri—574199, Karnataka State, India.
Crustacean Fisheries Division, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Ernakulam North P.O., P.B. No. 1603, Cochin-682018, Kerala, India.
Crustacea Caridean Parapontocaris Crangonid new records India

Abstract

This paper reports the occurrence of two species of the crangonid genus Parapontocaris Alcock, 1901 in waters off  Kerala from the southwestern coast of India, viz. P. levigata (Chace 1984) and P. bengalensis (Wood-Mason & Alcock 1891). Although P. bengalensis was reported off Bay of Bengal in India, after 121 years this species was now recorded off Kerala, Arabian Sea. Specimens were obtained at a depth of 250–300 m from Kalamuku (9°59'02.91"N /76°14'33.14"E) and Sakthikulangara (8°56'60.78"N /76°32'34.27"E) fish landing centres. Interspecies genetic divergence (COI: 8.8–9.1% & 16S DNA: 2.1–6.2 %) was recorded in the present specimen P. bengalensis and NCBI sequences.

 

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