Order Decapoda | Subphylum Crustacea Rank Genus | |
Similar Decapoda, Metapenaeopsis, Parapenaeopsis, Melicertus, Parapenaeus |
Funchalia is a genus of deep-water prawns of the family Penaeidae. Six species are currently recognised:
Few specimens of Funchalia are present in museum collections, mostly due to the lack of sampling at the great depths where it lives. It probably has a cosmopolitan distribution.
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.
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