Plesionika sindoi ( Rathbun, 1906 )

Li, Xinzheng & Komai, Tomoyuki, 2003, Pandaloid Shrimps From The Northern South China Sea, With Description Of A New Species Of Plesionika (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (2), pp. 257-275 : 268-269

Plesionika sindoi ( Rathbun, 1906)

Pandalus sindoi Rathbun, 1906: 915 , pl. 21, fig. 4 [type locality: Hawaiian islands ].

Plesionika Sindoi – De Man, 1920: 126, pl. 11, fig. 27-27d, pl. 12, fig. 27e.

Plesionika ocellus – Chace, 1985: 90, fig. 40; Toriyama et al., 1990: 18, pl. 3a.

Plesionika sindoi – Poupin, 1996, pl. 5c; Liu & Zhong, 1994: 560; Chan & Crosnier, 1997: 216, figs. 17, 36-37.

Material examined. - 2 males (cl 6.4, 8.6 mm) ( IOCAS), CN K122 B-42B, 19 00’N, 112 30’E, 300 m, sand, AT, coll. S. Shen ,

8 Feb.1960; 1 ovig. female (cl 9.9 mm) ( IOCAS), CN K102 B-61, 19 30’N, 112 00’E, 122 m, muddy sand, AT, coll. F. Xu , 28 Oct.1959.

Distribution. – Known with certainly from Japan, South China Sea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hawaii and French Polynesia, at depths of 122- 800 m.

Remarks. – Chan & Crosnier (1997) clarified the taxonomic confusion regarding Plesionika sindoi and P. ocellus Bate, 1888 . They showed that P. sindoi differs from P. ocellus primarily in the absence of a posterolateral tooth on the pleuron of the fourth abdominal somite and that P. chacei Hayashi, 1986 was a junior subjective synonym of P. ocellus . The present material is clearly identifiable with P. sindoi . Detailed descriptions of this species can be found in De Man (1920) and Chace (1985, as P. ocellus ).