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Issue: Vol. 3299 No. 1: 3 May. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-05-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3299.1.3
Page range: 61–65
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 1

Onycocaris longirostris Bruce, 1980 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae), new to the Australian fauna

Crustacea Section, Queensland Museum, P. O. Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 4101
Crustacea Decapoda Pontoniinae Onycocaris longirostris Bruce 1980 second record Kimberley region Western Australia Callyspongia host description of second pereiopod chelae

Abstract

A heterosexual pair of specimens of Onycocaris longirostris Bruce, 1980, previously known only from the single incompletemale holotype from New Caledonia, are reported from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. With the male major secondpereiopod and both female second pereiopods, these intact specimens enable the description of the species to be completed. A new record for Australian waters, it increases to 8 the number of Onycocaris species known from Australia.

References

  1. Bruce, A.J. (1980) On some pontoniine shrimps from Nouméa, New Caledonia. Cahiers de l'Indo-Pacifique, 2(1), 1–9, figs 1–14.

    Bruce, A.J. (2011) Notes on some Indo-Pacific Pontoniinae, XLVIII. Onycocaris nieli sp. nov., a new pontoniine shrimp from Heron Island, Queensland, Crustaceana, 84(3), 319–330, figs 1–5.