Pandalid shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) collected from the Philippines PANGLAO 2005 deep-sea expedition

Abstract

The caridean shrimp family Pandalidae Haworth, 1825, collected during the Philippine PANGLAO 2005 deep-sea expedition is represented by four genera and 30 species. Amongst them, Plesionika erythrocyclus Chan & Crosnier, 1997, P. exigua (Rathbun, 1906), P. rufomaculata Chan, 2004, P. suffusa Chan, 2004, and P. williamsi Forest, 1964, are new records for the Philippines. Plesionika acinacifer Chace, 1985, is shown to be the juvenile form of P. alcocki (Anderson, 1896) and the two taxa are synonymised. Colour photographs are provided for all but one species.