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Decapoda - Axiidea - Axiidae - Eiconaxius

Eiconaxius indicus (De Man, 1907)

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World Distribution
Poore & Dworschak (2018, MMV) - Indonesia, Solomon Is, New Caledonia, Vanuatu; 418–984 m

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Associated with sponges

Vertical range : Deep (more than 100 m) - Min-Max observed: 418-984 m

New Caledonia data
Eiconaxius indicus - Poore & Dworschak, 2018, MMV: 116, New Caledonia [New Caledonia, BATHUS 3 stations. Loyalty Ridge, seamount K, 24°43'S, 170°07'E, 750–760 m (stn DW778), NMV J71631 (4 males, 6.1–9.8 mm; 3 females, 7.6–9.0 mm); seamount K, 24°44'S, 170°08'E, 770–830 m (stn DW776), MNHN IU-2016-8022 (2 females, 6.1, 9.3 mm); seamount D, 23°35'S, 169°37'E, 655 m (stn DW800), MNHN IU-2016-8023 (female, 10.0 mm). S of Ile des Pins, 23°09'S, 167°11'E, 650–680 m (BIOCAL stn DW36), MNHN IU-2016-8021 (female, 7.8 mm)].
Eiconaxius indicus - Kou et al., 2020 (Frontiers in Marine Science), tab. 1 - Loyalty Ridge, New Caledonia, BATHUS 3 stn DW778

Comment(s) on data
Eiconaxius Bate, 1888 is a genus of axiid shrimps exclusively associated with deep-sea hexactinellid sponges

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

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