New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts
Description of Panulirus brunneiflagellum new species with notes
on its biology, evolution, and fisheries
Hideo Sekiguchi
Faculty of Bioresources
Mie University
1515 Kamihama-cho, Tsu
Mie 514-8507, Japan
email sekiguch@bio.mie-u.ac.jp
Ray W. George
Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management
University of Western Australia
Albany
WA 6330, Australia
Abstract The new species is distinguished from its nearest
relatives by the colour and patterning of the anntennual rami. Panulirus
brunneiflagellum is morphologically close to P. japonicus and
is restricted to the subtropical Ogasawara Islands in the west Pacific. It
probably became isolated from the P. japonicus stock with the development
of the unique Ogasawara oceanic circulatory system as a result of the deflection
of the Kuroshio subgyre as the Iwo-Jima Ridge uplifted. Over 90% of the annual
production of c. 5 t is frozen and transported to the Tokyo market, Japan.
Keywords Panulirus brunneiflagellum; evolution;
new species Panulirus; fishery
M04038; Online publication date 8 June 2005 Received 10 February 2004;
accepted 2 June 2004
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 2005, Vol. 39:
563-570
0028-8330/05/3903-0563 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2005
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