New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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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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