Pariphiculus mariannae

Pariphiculus mariannae (Herklots, 1852) Pariphiculus mariannae — Gordon 1931: 527; Shen 1940a: 215; Guinot 1979: 147, pl. 15(8–10); CGS Tan 1996: 1049 [21°44'N, 114°48'E]. Taxonomy: Serène and Lohavanijaya (1973), Chen (1989), Chen and Sun (2002), Y-J Shih et al. (2017). Type: Syntypes in “Musée de Louvain” (original text); whereabouts and status unknown (see Fransen et al. 1997: 212 on the museum). Type locality: China, locality unspecified. Distribution: Western Indian Ocean to South China Sea and East Asia: Red Sea, Bay of Bengal, the Philippines, Indonesia, and South China Sea to Japan (Chen 1989). Habitat: Subtidal; substrates of mud, sandy mud; depths 65 to 296 m (Chen 1989).