Funchalia
Genus of crustaceans
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Funchalia is a genus of deep-water prawns of the family Penaeidae. Six species are currently recognised:[2]
- 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
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Dendrobranchiata |
| Family: | Penaeidae |
| Genus: | Funchalia J. Y. Johnson, 1868 |
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Few specimens of Funchalia are present in museum collections, mostly due to the lack of sampling at the great depths where it lives.[1] It probably has a cosmopolitan distribution.[1]
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]
