Heterocarpus A. Milne Edwards, 1881

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 : 259

Genus Heterocarpus A. Milne Edwards, 1881

Remarks. – Liu & Zhong (1994) listed the following eight species of Heterocarpus from Chinese waters: H. alphonsi Bate, 1888 ; H. dorsalis Bate, 1888 ; H. gibbosus Bate, 1888 ; H. laevigatus Bate, 1888 (as lavigatus [sic]); H. parvispina De Man, 1917 ; H. sibogae De Man, 1917 ; H. tricarinatus Alcock & Anderson, 1894 ; and H. woodmasoni Alcock, 1901 . Crosnier (1988) concluded that H. alphonsi was a junior subjective synonym of H. dorsalis . Crosnier (1988) also showed that two species were confounded under the name H. sibogae , H. sibogae s.s. and H. hayashii Crosnier, 1988 . The two species often occur in the same catch of deepwater trawl ( Hayashi, 1986; Chan & Yu, 1987; personal observation). Therefore, it is possible that the Chinese records of H. sibogae contain the two species. During this study, H. hayashii has been identified from the present collection.