A new genus and species of hippolytid shrimp (Decapoda, Caridea) from Wallis Island, South-West Pacific

A new genus and species, Eumanningia pliarthron, is described based on a specimen collected during the MUSORSTOM 7 cruise on the outer slope of Wallis Island, South-West Pacific, in depths of 890-915 m. Using available identification keys, this specimen would be placed in the genus Merhippolyte Bate, but as it differs from all species of this genus in several characters, of which the most obvious are: presence of three strong movable postrostral spines, posterior part of the third abdominal somite produced in an extremely large sharp tooth, left second pereiopod very long and with merus and carpus subdived into an unusually high number of articles, a new genus is created.