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Issue: Vol. 4532 No. 4: 20 Dec. 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-12-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4532.4.10
Page range: 597–600
Abstract views: 73
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Record of the deep sea shrimp Pasiphaea alcocki (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pasiphaeidae) 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 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 These authors contributed equally: G. Kuberan, Rekha Devi Chakraborty
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 Decapoda Pasiphaeidae

Abstract

The present study provides a report on the rare occurrence of the deep sea caridean shrimp Pasiphaea alcocki (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891) from the southwest coast of India after three decades. Earlier this species was recorded from Indian waters at a depth range between 335 and 1732 m while the present specimens were obtained in the depth range of 200-300m from the commercial bottom trawlers operated off Sakthikulangara fishing harbour (8°56'60.78"N /76°32'34.27"E) off (8°56'60.78"N /76°32'34.27"E), Kerala from the southern region of Arabian Sea, India. The level of interspecies genetic divergence using COI and 16S DNA sequences of Pasiphaea sp from the United States, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) were observed. The present study reports the record of Pasiphaea alcocki with a morphological description along with DNA barcoding and supplements the existing knowledge on this deep sea shrimp from the southwest coast of India, which is mandatory to understand the role of this species in ecosystem functioning.

 

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