The Biology of Acetes chinensis Hansen(Decapoda:Crustacea) in Korea Waters 1. Systematics and external anatomy

The small shrimp of the genus Acetes which is abundantly distributed in shallow waters along the western coast of Korea has long been considered as Acetes japonicus Kishinouye. In the other hand Liu(1956) has suggested that A. chinensis was possibly distributed in Korean waters, judging from the information from Yoshida(1941), but none of the specimen was collected from this area. After careful examination of the specimens of Acetes collected from the station (37$^{\circ}$39'N, 126$^{\circ}$23'E) in Sokmo channel, central part of Korea authors agreed that the population distributed in this area is consists of Acetes chinensis Hansen. In the present paper the diagnosis of Korean species of Acetes chinensis has first described with taxonomic revision and it is the new record for Korean waters.