Abstract / Introduction / Summary:
Two species of ghost shrimps, the genus Calliaxina (Decapoda: Axiidea: Eucalliacidae) were collected from Kagoshima and Okinawa prefectures, Japan. Nine specimens of Calliaxina novaebritanniae (Borradaile, 1900), collected from the Amami Islands (Tokuno-shima and Yoron-to islands), Kagoshima Prefecture, and the Okinawa Islands (Okinawa-jima island) and the Yaeyama Islands (Ishigaki-jima islands), Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, represent the first records of each areas, and Tokuno-shima specimens being the northernmost records for the species. Twenty-nine specimens of Calliaxina sakaii (de Saint Laurent・Le Loeuff, 1979), collected from the Koshiki Islands (Shimo-koshiki-shiima island), western coasts and Kagoshima Bay of the Kagoshima mainland (Kyushu), and Osumi Islands (Tanega-shima island), Kagoshima Prefecture, represent the first record for each area.
