A New Record of Pandalid Shrimp Procletes levicarina (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Korean Waters

Abstract

The pandalid shrimp Procletes levicarina (Bate, 1888) was newly collected from the western and southern waters of Jeju Island, Korea. This species is the only known member of the genus Procletes which belongs to the family Pandalidae. Morphological description and illustration with a color photograph of the species are given. With the addition of P. levicarina, the family Pandalidae in Korean waters consists of 10 species belonging to 5 genera.

New record of the monotypic shrimp genus Procletes (Decapoda:Pandalidae) from the West coast of India

“…In India the species is reported only from Andhra Pradesh, Bay of Bengal (Lalitha, 1980;Shanis, Akhilesh, Manjebrayakath, Ganga, & Pillai, 2012) and now from Gujarat. Remarks: The specimens agree well with the description and illustration provided by Chace (1985) and Kim et al (2011). The specimen examined in the present study bears six spines on merus of fifth pereiopod whereas the Korean specimens examined by Kim et al (2011) have seven-eight spines.…”

“…Remarks: The specimens agree well with the description and illustration provided by Chace (1985) and Kim et al (2011). The specimen examined in the present study bears six spines on merus of fifth pereiopod whereas the Korean specimens examined by Kim et al (2011) have seven-eight spines. The color pattern of specimens examined in the present study also showed similarity with Lalitha (1980) and Kim et al (2011).…”

“…This species is previously reported from Indo-West pacific, Red Sea to Indonesia and Japan, South China Sea, Philippines, (Lalitha, 1980;Li & Komai, 2003); Australia (Poore, McCallum, & Taylor, 2008;McCallum, 2011), and Korea (Kim et al, 2011). In India the species is reported only from Andhra Pradesh, Bay of Bengal (Lalitha, 1980;Shanis, Akhilesh, Manjebrayakath, Ganga, & Pillai, 2012) and now from Gujarat.…”

“…At the laboratory, morphological characters of the shrimp were photographed using stereo-microscope equipped with micro-cam and morphometric parameters were measured using vernier caliper (0,01mm accuracy). The taxonomy was confirmed to species level using various keys and references (Bate, 1888;Chace, 1985;Kim, Choi, Oh, Choi, & Lee, 2011 TL-55,33mm, CL-22,75mm), trawl catch at 27m depth, Subhashagar (21°38'39"N, 69°35'28"E), Porbandar, March 2016, collected by Barkha Purohit.…”

“…P. levicarina was originally described as Dorodotes levicarina by Bate, 1888 on the basis of two male specimens, from the Arafura Sea, West of Torres Strait and South of Papua collected by H.M.S Challenger during the years 1873-76. The genus is distinguished from the other genera of Pandalid family by the presence of longitudinal carina on the lateral surface of the carapace and postrostral carina extends nearly to the posterior margin of carapace (Kim, Choi, Oh, Choi, & Lee, 2011). In a previous study we reported total 37 species of prawn and shrimps belonging to 16 genera and 6 families from Gujarat (Trivedi, Trivedi, Soni, Purohit, & Vachhrajani, 2015;Purohit & Vachhrajani, 2017).…”