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Funchalia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Malacostraca

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Decapoda

Subphylum
  
Crustacea

Family
  
Penaeidae

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:

  • 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. 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.

    References

    Funchalia Wikipedia