An overview of the genus Plesionika Bate, 1888 (Decapoda, Caridea, Pandalidae) in Asian waters
Author
Ahamed, Ferdous
Author
Cardoso, Irene A.
Author
Ahmed, Zoarder F.
Author
Hossain, Md. Y.
Author
Ohtomi, Jun
text
Zootaxa
2017
4221
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journal article
37273
10.11646/zootaxa.4221.5.6
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Plesionika assimilis
De Man, 1917
Description.
Rostrum overreaching antennal scale, it is armed dorsally with 5–7 teeth on basal crest, including 4 or 5 on carapace posterior to level of orbital margin, and 3 or 4 subapical teeth, 4 or 5 posterior most teeth with distinct basal sutures but none with barbed tips, armed ventrally with 10–12 teeth; abdomen without posteromesial tooth or median dorsal carina on 3rd somite; eye broadly subpyriform, maximum diameter about l/4 carapace length,
ocellus
longitudinally oval, constricted at juncture with cornea; 3rd maxilliped with penultimate segment about 7/10 as long as terminal one; 2nd pereopods unequal with epipod and extremely slender or thread-like (
Chace 1985
)
Distribution.
Known only from
Indonesia
at depths of
54–90 m
(
Chace 1985
)