Funchalia

Funchalia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Dendrobranchiata
Family: Penaeidae
Genus: Funchalia
J. Y. Johnson, 1868
Synonyms [1]
  • Hemipenaeopsis Bouvier, 1905
  • Grimaldiella Bouvier, 1905

Funchalia is a genus of deep-water prawns of the family Penaeidae. Six species are currently recognised:[2]

  • Funchalia danae Burkenroad, 1940
  • Funchalia meridionalis (Lenz & Strunck, 1914)
  • Funchalia sagamiensis Fujino, 1975
  • Funchalia taaningi Burkenroad, 1940
  • Funchalia villosa (Bouvier, 1905)
  • Funchalia woodwardi Johnson, 1868

Few specimens of Funchalia are present in museum collections, mostly due to the lack of sampling at the great depths where it lives.[1] It probably has a cosmopolitan distribution.[1]

The genus was erected in 1868, when James Yate Johnson erected it for the species Funchalia woodwardi, which he had collected off Madeira; the specific epithet commemorated Henry Woodward of the British Museum.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Fernando d'Incao (1999). "The western Atlantic shrimps of the genus Funchalia (Decapoda, Penaeidae)". In Frederick R. Schram & J. C. von Vaupel Klein (ed.). Crustaceans and the Biodiversity Crisis: Proceedings of the Fourth International Crustacean Congress, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 20-24, 1998. Vol. 1. Brill Publishers. pp. 345–355. ISBN 978-90-04-11387-9.
  2. ^ Sammy De Grave & Michael Türkay (2012). "Funchalia". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
  3. ^ James Yate Johnson (1868). "Description of a new genus and a new species of macrurous decapod crustaceans, belonging to the Penaeidae, discovered at Madeira". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1867: 895–901.