'Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi'
Abstract
The commercial deep-sea caridean shrimp
Plesionika martia (A. Milne-Edwards, 1883) has long
been recorded from India and constitutes an
important part of catches of the deep-sea shrimp
fisheries. A recent survey in some deep-sea fishing
harbours along the south-west coast of India,
however, revealed that all material previously
reported as 'P. martia' is actually a misidentification
of its closely related species Plesionika
semilaevis Spence Bate, 1888
