Additional records of the deep-sea scissor-foot shrimp Psalidopus huxleyi Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1892 (Decapoda: Caridea: Psalidopodidae) from the Arabian and Andaman Seas, India

Abstract

In this paper, a taxonomic account of the rare deep-sea caridean shrimp Psalidopus huxleyi Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1892 is provided based on four specimens collected during exploratory cruises onboard the “Fishery Oceanographic Research Vessel Sagar Sampada” in the Andaman Sea (635 meters depth) and the Southeastern Arabian Sea (957 m). This species has often been recorded from the Western Pacific Ocean, but this study represents the rediscovery of the species from localities close to the type localities since its original description.