Chlorotocoides spinicauda ( De Man, 1902 )

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 : 258

Chlorotocoides spinicauda ( De Man, 1902)

Chlorotocus spinicauda De Man, 1902: 856 , pl. 26, fig. 59-59h [type locality: Ternate, Indonesia]; 1920: 110, 182, pls. 15, 16, fig. 46-46e; Chace, 1985: 4, fig. 2; Liu & Zhong, 1994: 559.

Chlorotocoides spinicauda – Kemp, 1925: 277.

Thalassocaris maldivensis Borradaile, 1915: 208 [type locality: Maldive Islands]; 1917: 400, pl. 58: fig. 5.

Material examined. – 1 female (cl 4.0 mm) ( IOCAS), CN 19- 49 , Beibu Bay , 18 00’N, 108 30’E, 79 m, muddy sand, BT, coll. Z. Fan, 28 Jan.1959 ; 3 females (cl 6.0- 7.3 mm) ( IOCAS), CN Q62 B-33, 18 45’N, 108 15’E, 49 m, muddy sand, AT, coll. F. Xu, 17 Apr.1959 ; 3 males (cl 7.0- 7.4 mm), 2 females (cl 6.0, 7.5 mm), 4 ovig. females (cl 7.0- 7.9 mm) ( IOCAS) , 1 male, 1 female ( CBM-ZC), CN Q118-40 , 22 45’N, 116 00’E, 23 m, sandy mud, AT, coll. Wang, 10 Jan.1960 ; 10 males (cl 3.4-5.7 mm), 17 females (cl 3.1-5.0 mm), 17 ovig. females (cl 5.0- 6.4 mm) ( IOCAS) , 1 male, 1 ovig. female ( ZRC), CN N219 B-178, 18 15’N, 108 30’E, 54 m, muddy sand, AT, coll. J. Liu, 16 May.1960 ; 1 ovig. female (cl 6.9 mm) ( IOCAS), CN X295 B-25B, Beibu Bay , 20 00’N, 108 30’E, 64 m, AT, 18 Oct.1962 .

Distribution. – South China Sea, Maldive Islands, Andaman Islands, Indonesia, and Philippines; at depths of 15- 141 m.

Remarks. – The present specimens agree closely with the previous descriptions of Chlorotocoides spinicauda (cf. De Man, 1902; Chace, 1985). Although the known records of this species are rather scarce, the species appears common in local waters.