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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Dendrobranchiata |
| Family: | Penaeidae |
| Genus: | Funchalia J. Y. Johnson, 1868 |
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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
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
References
References
- Fernando d'Incao (1999). "The western Atlantic shrimps of the genus Funchalia (Decapoda, Penaeidae)". In Frederick R. Schram & J. C. von Vaupel Klein (ed.). Crustaceans and the Biodiversity Crisis: Proceedings of the Fourth International Crustacean Congress, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 20-24, 1998. Vol. 1. Brill Publishers. pp. 345–355. ISBN 978-90-04-11387-9.
- Sammy De Grave & Michael Türkay (2012). "Funchalia". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
- James Yate Johnson (1868). "Description of a new genus and a new species of macrurous decapod crustaceans, belonging to the Penaeidae, discovered at Madeira". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1867: 895–901.