Abstract / Introduction / Summary:
Seventy-five specimens of the ghost shrimp, Paratrypaea bouvieri (Nobili, 1904) (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae), were collected from Miyazaki Prefecture (Kyushu), Koshiki-shima Islands (Kami-koshiki-shima and Shimo-koshiki-shima islands), western and southern coasts, and Kagoshima Bay of the Kagoshima mainland (Kyushu), Tokara-Islands (Takara-jima island), Osumi Islands (Tanega-shima island), Amami Islands (Amami-oshima, Kikai-jima, Kakeroma-jima, Tokuno-shima, Okinoerabu-jima and Yoron-to islands), Kagoshima Prefecture. Among them, the records of Miyazaki prefecture, Shimo-koshiki-shima island, western and southern coasts of the Kagoshima mainland, Takarajima-ialand, Kakeroma-jima, Tokuno-shima, Okinoerabu-jima and Yoron-to islands are confirmed for the first time in the areas.
