''Funchalia'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of deep-water
prawns of the family
Penaeidae
Penaeidae is a family of marine crustaceans in the suborder Dendrobranchiata, which are often referred to as penaeid shrimp or penaeid prawns. The Penaeidae contain many species of economic importance, such as the tiger prawn, whiteleg shrimp, ...
. Six species are currently recognised:
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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
James Yate Johnson (1820, in Kendal, Westmorland – 2 February 1900, in Funchal) was an English naturalist.
Johnson lived in Madeira from around 1851, studied marine fish, crustacea, sea anemones and sponges and terrestrial spiders, flowering pl ...
erected it for the species ''
Funchalia woodwardi'', which he had collected off
Madeira; the
specific epithet commemorated
Henry Woodward of the British Museum.
References
Penaeidae
Taxa named by James Yate Johnson
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