title: Globospongicola jiaolongi Jiang, Kou & Li, 2015, a junior subjective synonym of G. spinulatus Komai & Saito, 2006 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Stenopodidea: Spongicolidae).
abstract: Morphological and genetic analyses both showed that the abundant material of deep-sea sponge associated Globospongicola shrimps collected off southwestern Taiwan belongs to the same species as G. spinulatus Komai & Saito, 2006 described from the Southwest Pacific and G. jiaolongi Jiang, Kou & Li, 2015 recently described from the South China Sea. Thus, G. jiaolongi is treated as a junior subjective synonym of G. spinulatus. Moreover, it is confirmed that G. spinulatus inhabits general deep-sea area but not in chemosynthetic environment.
authors.affiliation: Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, R.O.C.; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Teng-Wei
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Natural History Museum & Institute, Chiba, 955-2 Aoba-cho, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8682, Japan; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Tomoyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Komai
authors.affiliation: Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 20224, Taiwan, R.O.C.; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Chien-Lin
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 20224, Taiwan, R.O.C. Center of Excellence for the Oceans, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 20224, Taiwan, R.O.C.; Email: tychan@mail.ntou.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Tin-Yam
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Chan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D033364:Decapoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D017753:Ecosystem; D013624:Taiwan