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Issue: Vol. 2691 No. 1: 30 Nov. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-11-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2691.1.3
Page range: 53–56
Abstract views: 83
PDF downloaded: 23

Discovery of the rare burrowing shrimp Calliapagurops charcoti de Saint Laurent, 1973 (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) in shallow water: first record of the infraorder for Madeira Island

Dritte Zoologische Abteilung, Naturhistorisches Museum, Burgring 7, A 1010 Wien, Austria
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, PT 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Crustacea Axiidea Callianassidae

Abstract

The genus Calliapagurops was established by de Saint Laurent (1973) for the new species C. charcoti based on a damaged specimen lacking the abdomen and both third and fourth pereopods. The specimen was collected south of the Azorean island of Flores from shelly sand in 190–230 m depth. The original description by de Saint Laurent (1973) was rather short; a redescription and figures were later provided by Sakai (1999) and Ngoc-Ho (2003). Ngoc-Ho (2002) described a second species in this genus, C. foresti, based on four specimens (three of them complete) collected between 186 and 198 m depth east of Luzon, The Philippines.

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