Philocheras lowisi ( Kemp, 1916 )

Taylor, Joanne, 2010, The sand shrimp genus Philocheras (Caridea: Crangonidae) from the continental margin of Western Australia including the description of a new species and a key to Australian species *, Zootaxa 2372 (1), pp. 157-168 : 165

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.16

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scientific name

Philocheras lowisi ( Kemp, 1916 )
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Philocheras lowisi ( Kemp, 1916)

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Pontophilus lowisi Kemp, 1916: 361 , pl. 8 fig. 2.

Philocheras lowisi . — Bruce 1994: 752, fig. 2.

Material examined. Australia, WA, Northwest Shelf , between Port Hedland and Dampier, 19°05'S, 117°26.00–46.23'E , 120 m, 12. VI .1983 (stn NWA 52 ), J40944 View Materials (5 specimens, pocl 1.3–1.8 mm); 19°38–37'S, 118°06–05'E , 49 m, 13. VI .1983 (stn NWA 56 ), J58874 View Materials (3 specimens, pocl 0.8–1.7 mm); 20°01–00'S, 117°17– 18'E , 46 m, 02. VI .1983 (stn NWA 5 ), J58875 View Materials (1 specimen, pocl 1.6 mm) .

Other material. Australia, WA, (stn SO283), NTM Cr16608 (22 specimens) .

Type locality. Port Blair , Andaman Islands ; 4–20 m.

Distribution. Andaman Sea, Hong Kong to Japan; Australia: Timor Sea; Western Australia. Depth: sublittoral to 120m.

Remark. See remarks for P. japonicus .

Bruce, A. J. (1994) Shrimps from flat-top bank, Timor Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 42, 743 - 756.

Kemp, S. (1916) Notes on Crustacea Decapoda in the Indian Museum. VI. Indian Crangonidae. Records of the Indian Museum, 12, 355 - 384.

VI

Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

NTM

Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Crangonidae

Genus

Philocheras