Plesionika ortmanni Doflein, 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 : 267

Plesionika ortmanni Doflein, 1902

Plesionika ortmanni Doflein, 1902: 616 , pl. III, fig. 2 [type locality: south coast of Japan]; Balss, 1914: 30, fig. 14; De Man, 1920: 107, 124, pl. 11, fig. 26, 26a; Chace, 1985: 92, fig. 41; Hayashi, 1986: 136, 137, 272, fig. 87; Liu & Zhong, 1994: 560.

Material examined. – 1 female (cl 7.1 mm) ( IOCAS), CN 36-27 , 20 30’N, 113 30’E, 87 m, muddy sand, AT, coll. H. Li, 20 Feb.1959 ; 1 ovig. female (cl 5.5 mm) ( IOCAS), CN S61 B-6, 22 30’N, 115 30’E, 29 m, AT, coll. W. Zhang, 6 Apr.1959 ; 1 male (cl 9.4 mm) ( IOCAS), CN L56 B-31, 20 30’N, 112 00’E, 72 m, muddy sand, AT, coll. X. Ma ,, 20 Apr.1959 ; 1 female (cl 7.4 mm) ( IOCAS), CN R28 B-34, 18º30’N, 110 30’E, 103 m, sand, AT, coll. F. Xu, 10 Jul.1959 ; 1 male (cl 10.4 mm), 1 female (cl 11.1 mm) ( IOCAS), CN N66 B-14, 19 30’N, 111 15’E, 90 m, sandy mud, BT, coll. Z. Tang, 13 Jul.1959 ; 1 female (cl 11.4 mm) ( IOCAS), CN SIII28 B-8, 19 30’N, 111 15’E, 103 m, sand, AT, coll. W. Zhang, 19 Jul.1959 ; 1 female (cl 9.0 mm) ( IOCAS), CN N90 B-13B, 19 30’N, 111 30’E, 102 m, sand, AT, coll. H. Li, 19 Oct.1959 ; 6 males (cl 10.1-12.2 mm), 2 ovig. females (cl 11.6-12.6 mm) ( IOCAS) , 1 male, 1 ovig. female ( ZRC), CN K98 B-43, 20 00’N, 112 30’E, 104 m, sand, AT, coll. F. Xu, 22 Oct.1959 ; 2 specimens (damaged, sex could not be determined; cl 6.2, 7.0 mm) ( IOCAS), CN N93 B-57, 19 00’N, 111 00’E, 90 m, muddy sand, AT, coll. Z. Tang, 28 Oct.1959 ; 1 male (cl 9.2 mm) ( IOCAS), CN Q77 B-20, 17 00’N, 109 00’E, 113 m, muddy sand, AT, coll. Z. Tang, 20 Nov.1959 ; 1 male (cl 8.2 mm), 1 female (cl 10.3 mm) ( IOCAS), CN K120 B-29, 19 30’N, 112 00’E, 120 m, sand and shells, AT, coll. J. Qu, 6 Feb.1960 ; 2 females (cl 7.3, 7.7 mm) ( IOCAS), CN K123 B-70, 19 30’N, 112 30’E, 174 m, sandy mud, AT, S. Shen, 8 Feb.1960 .

Distribution. – Western Pacific from Japan to Indonesia, at depths of 29- 400 m.