Species Acanthephyra sanguinea Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1892
- Acanthephyra sanguinea Wood-Mason, J. & Alcock, A. 1892. Natural history notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer "Investigator", Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N., commanding. Series II., No. 1. On the results of deep-sea dredging during the season 1890–91. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 9: 265-275, 358-370 figs 1-6 pls 14, 15 [358 fig. 1].
Type data:
Syntype(s) IM 4♀ (probable depository institution), three separate localities: Laccadive Sea, off Kerala State, India; Bay of Bengal west of the Andaman Islands; and the Andaman Sea off North Cinque Island. - Acanthephyra kempii Balss, H. 1914. Diagnosen neuer Macruren der Valdivia Expedition. Zoologischer Anzeiger 44: 592-599 [595].
Type data:
Status unknown, extreme southern part of Bay of Bengal [70°01'N 85°56'E].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Chace, F.A., Jr 1986. The Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910. Part 4: Families Oplophoridae and Nematocarcinidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 432: i-iv, 1-82 [29]
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific Oceans.
IMCRA
Timor Province (2), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4)
Ecological Descriptors
Bathypelagic, continental rise, continental slope, mesopelagic, oceanic province.
Extra Ecological Information
From 567–3197 m depth.
General References
Hanamura, Y. & Evans, D.R. 1994. Deepwater caridean shrimps of the families Oplophoridae and Pasiphaeidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Western Australia, with an appendix on a lophogastridan mysid (Mysidacea). Crustacean Research 23: 46-60 [48] (first Australian record)
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