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Misidentification and notes on Plesionika semilaevis, Spence Bate, 1888 (Crustacean: Decapoda: Caridea) from the southern coast of India

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14700/
http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3FD3E0CE-449D-4A6F-857C-7FB241A02BD9
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4861.2.10
 
Title Misidentification and notes on Plesionika semilaevis, Spence Bate, 1888
(Crustacean: Decapoda: Caridea) from the southern coast of India
 
Creator Kuberan, G
Chakraborty, Rekha D
Maheswarudu, G
 
Subject Decapods
Crustacean Fisheries
Fish Taxonomy
 
Description The commercial deep-sea caridean shrimp Plesionika martia (Milne-Edwards 1883) has long been recorded
from India and constitutes an important species of deep-sea shrimp catches in the southern coast of India. However, the
present study revealed that all the previous records of “Plesionika martia” is actually a misidentification of the closely
related species P. semilaevis, which was recently obtained from Indian waters. The specimens were collected from three
fish landing harbours (Sakthikulangara, Kalamuku, and Tuticorin) fished from the depth of about 150–250 m along the
southern coast of India during 2014 to 2017. The level of interspecies genetic divergence between 16S rDNA (16.8–
18.6%) and COI (26.1%) sequences of the Indian P. semilaevis and P. martia sequence retrieved from NCBI were found
to be comparatively high. The current work illustrates the detailed morphological characters with color photographs of
the species, P. semilaevis off the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
 
Publisher Magnolia Press
 
Date 2020
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14700/1/Zootaxa_2020_Rekha%20Chakraborty.pdf
Kuberan, G and Chakraborty, Rekha D and Maheswarudu, G (2020) Misidentification and notes on Plesionika semilaevis, Spence Bate, 1888 (Crustacean: Decapoda: Caridea) from the southern coast of India. Zootaxa, 4861 (2). pp. 297-300.