First record of the deep-sea caridean shrimp genus Psathyrocaris Wood-Mason and Alcock, 1893 (Decapoda: Pasiphaeidae) from Taiwan

Abstract

The deep-sea pasiphaeid genus Psathyrocaris Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1893, is reported for the first time in Taiwanese waters and is represented in the region by two species, P. fragilis Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1893, and P. hawaiiensis Rathbun, 1906. Just two specimens of P. hawaiiensis have been previously cited from Hawaii and the Coral Sea while this new record of P. fragilis is only the second for the Western Pacific.