{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Funchalia | authority = J. Y. Johnson, 1868 | synonyms = *''Hemipenaeopsis'' <small>Bouvier, 1905</small> *''Grimaldiella'' <small>Bouvier, 1905</small> | synonyms_ref = &nbsp;<ref name="Incao"/> }}

'''''Funchalia''''' is a genus of deep-water prawns of the family Penaeidae. Six species are currently recognised:<ref>{{Cite WoRMS |author=Sammy De Grave & Michael Türkay |year=2012 |title=''Funchalia'' |id=106814 |accessdate=July 20, 2012}}</ref> *''Funchalia danae'' <small>Burkenroad, 1940</small> *''Funchalia meridionalis'' <small>(Lenz & Strunck, 1914)</small> *''Funchalia sagamiensis'' <small>Fujino, 1975</small> *''Funchalia taaningi'' <small>Burkenroad, 1940</small> *''Funchalia villosa'' <small>(Bouvier, 1905)</small> *''Funchalia woodwardi'' <small>Johnson, 1868</small>

Few specimens of ''Funchalia'' are present in museum collections, mostly due to the lack of sampling at the great depths where it lives.<ref name="Incao">{{cite book |author=Fernando d'Incao |year=1999 |chapter=The western Atlantic shrimps of the genus ''Funchalia'' (Decapoda, Penaeidae) |pages=345–355 |editor=Frederick R. Schram & J. C. von Vaupel Klein |title=Crustaceans and the Biodiversity Crisis: Proceedings of the Fourth International Crustacean Congress, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 20-24, 1998 |volume=1 |publisher=Brill Publishers |isbn=978-90-04-11387-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=msw2BgcugkcC&pg=PA345}}</ref> It probably has a cosmopolitan distribution.<ref name="Incao"/>

The genus was erected in 1868, when James Yate Johnson erected it for the species ''Funchalia woodwardi'', which he had collected off Madeira; the specific epithet commemorated Henry Woodward of the British Museum.<ref>{{cite journal |author=James Yate Johnson |year=1868 |title=Description of a new genus and a new species of macrurous decapod crustaceans, belonging to the Penaeidae, discovered at Madeira |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |volume=1867 |pages=895–901 |url=http://biostor.org/reference/60123}}</ref>

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Category:Penaeidae Category:Taxa named by James Yate Johnson

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