Plesionika bifurca, Alcock & Anderson, 1894

Ahamed, Ferdous, Cardoso, Irene A., Ahmed, Zoarder F., Hossain, Md. Y. & Ohtomi, Jun, 2017, An overview of the genus Plesionika Bate, 1888 (Decapoda, Caridea, Pandalidae) in Asian waters, Zootaxa 4221 (5), pp. 575-593 : 581

P. bifurca Alcock & Anderson, 1894

Description. Rostrum from half to two-thirds the length of the rest of the carapace, it is armed almost all its extent both dorsally with 8 or 9 teeth and ventrally with 3 to 5 teeth, all being fixed; the 3rd abdominal tergum has the posterior border convex, but not acutely produced; the ocellus is quite indistinct; the external maxillipeds are stouter and very much longer than the first pair of pereopods, the 1st pair of pereopods are the shortest of all, and the left pereopod of 2nd pair is the longest of all, reaching far beyond the end of the external maxillipeds and being as long as the carapace and rostrum and first 4 abdominal somites combined ( Alcock 1901).

Distribution. Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, Indonesia, Philippines, South and East China seas and Japan; at depths of 220–1412 m ( Li & Komai 2003).