Species Vir philippinensis Bruce & Svoboda, 1984
- Vir philippinensis Bruce, A.J. & Svoboda, A. 1984. A report on a small collection of Coelenterate-associated Pontoniine shrimps from Cebu, Philippine Islands. Asian Marine Biology 1: 87-99 figs 1-7 [87 figs 1-4].
Type data:
Holotype NTM ♀, Cebu, Philippines.
Paratype(s) NTM Cr.000415 ♂ (as allotype), Cebu, Philippines; RMNH D35559 ovigerous ♀, Cebu, Philippines; USNM 204413 ♀, Cebu, Philippines.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
East Indo-west Pacific Oceans (Ryukyu Islands and Philippines).
IMCRA
Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Commensal, coral reef, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Associated with scleractinian corals of the genera Pleurogyra, Pterogyra, Euphylia and Fungia.
General References
Chace, F.A., Jr & Bruce, A.J. 1993. The Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910, Part 6: Superfamily Palaemonoidea. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 543: 1-152 [132]
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