Species Psalidopus mirabilis Wood-Mason in Anon., 1891

Museums

Regional Maps

• Psalidopus mirabilis Wood-Mason, J. in Anonymous 1891. Appendix No. XIII. In, Administration Report of the Indian Marine for the Official Year 1890–91. The Government Central Press, Bombay. pp. 52–57.
• Psalidopus huxleyi 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 [273].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, IM (probable depository institution), locality unknown.
• Psalidopus spiniventris 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 [274].
• Psalidopus japonensis Kubo, I. 1952. On two rare species of Psalidopodidae and Nephropsidae. Journal of the Tokyo University of Fisheries [formerly Journal of the Tokyo College of Fisheries] 39: 91-100 [91].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• De Grave, S. & Fransen, C.H.J.M. 2011. Carideorum Catalogus: The recent species of the Dendrobrachiate, Stenopodidean, Procarididean and Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 85(9): 195-589, figs 1-59 [303]

 

Introduction

See Huys et al. (2014: 20) for discussion of problems with this name and priority.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4)

Ecological Descriptors

Bathypelagic, continental slope, mesopelagic, oceanic province, sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 500–1100 m.

 

General References

Huys, R., Low, M.E.Y., de Grave, S., Ng, P.K.L. & Clark, P.F. 2014. On two reports associated with James Wood-Mason and Alfred William Alcock published by the Indian Museum and the Indian Marine Survey between 1890 and 1891: implications for malacostracan nomenclature. Zootaxa 3757(1): 1-78 [20]

Wadley, V. & Evans, D. 1991. Crustaceans from the Deepwater Trawl Fisheries of Western Australia. Hobart, Australia : CSIRO Division of Fisheries 44 pp. [15]

 

History of changes

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