Decapoda - Dendrobranchiata - Sicyoniidae - Sicyonia

Sicyonia vitulans (Kubo, 1949)



World Distribution
(Chan & Yang, 2023, Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos) - Indo-West Pacific but previously known only from Japan, Bellona Islands (near New Caledonia) and Seychelles; at depths of 35-350 m (Crosnier 2003). Reported for the first time in the Southwestern Indian Ocean and from the Madagascar. The present record also extends the vertical distribution of the species to as shallow as 2 m deep.

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)

Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 2-350 m

New Caledonia data
Nouvelle Caledonie, STATION — Crosnier A, Zoosystema 25, 2.

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

This species in Worms Database