Annotated Checklist of Alpheid and Ogyridid Shrimp from the Philippine Archipelago and the South China Sea1 DORA M. BANNER and ALBERT H. BANNER Ha waii lnstinue of Marine Biology. University ol H(/\ vaii Honolulu. Hawaii 96822
Abstract.- A total of I 03 species of alpheid a nd one ogyridid shrimp a re listed as coming from Philippine national waters, of which 55 are new records reported for this paper. From the South China Sea, primarily in the Hong Ko ng area, a total of 48 species of alpheids are listed, of which 41 are new records, including one new species of the genus Athanas. As 35 of the listed species are shared between the two areas, the tota l number of species is 11 6.
Introduction
This paper is one in our continuing series to increase the knowledge of the distributional patterns of the alpheid shrimp in the Indo-Pacific. The primary focus is upon the alpheids of the Philippine Archipelago and we hope we have covered all references in the literature to records of capture for that area. For reasons given below, we have supplemented the Philippine records with records of species from the South China Sea, mainly in vicinity of Hong Kong. The bulk of the records are upon previously unreported collections, mostly our own personal collections and those of the Hong Kong Fisheries Research Station. The listing is presented in the form of an annotated check list. We do not believe that the list will be found to be exhaustive for either area and we present it merely as a point of departure for future workers in the field. We have not offered any keys to the genera or the species as we hold that keys to an incompletely known fauna can be misleading. In the past, all save two collections reported from waters of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent waters of the South China Sea were made on the track of major expeditions passing through the area. The first report in the literature was that of White (anonymously in 1847) who reported two species from the " Philippines." Unfortunately, both species are nomina nuda and cannot be attributed with certainty to any presently recognized species. This was followed in 1852 by Dana's report on the crustaceans of the U . S. Exploring Expedition of 1838- 42, in which he reported 6 species, all new, and all presently accepted (although one has never been found again) from the Balabac Straits, Sulu Sea. Following Dana's study was the report of Stimpson (1861) who listed three species from the U.S. North Pacific Expedition, 1853- 1856, one of questionable identity, one probably correctly identified, and one as a new genus and species, all from Hong Kong. Bate (1888) listed six species collected by the 1
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