Funchalia Explained

Funchalia is a genus of deep-water prawns of the family Penaeidae. Six species are currently recognised:^[1]

• 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.^[2] It probably has a cosmopolitan distribution.^[2]

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.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Sammy De Grave & Michael Türkay . 2012 . Funchalia . 106814 . July 20, 2012.
2. Book: Fernando d'Incao . 1999 . The western Atlantic shrimps of the genus Funchalia (Decapoda, Penaeidae) . 345–355 . Frederick R. Schram & J. C. von Vaupel Klein . Crustaceans and the Biodiversity Crisis: Proceedings of the Fourth International Crustacean Congress, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 20-24, 1998 . 1 . . 978-90-04-11387-9 .
3. . 1868 . Description of a new genus and a new species of macrurous decapod crustaceans, belonging to the Penaeidae, discovered at Madeira . . 1867 . 895–901 .