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Issue: Vol. 1393 No. 1: 18 Jan. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-01-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1393.1.7
Page range: 61–68
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 1

Periclimenes sarkanae sp. nov. a new pontoniine shrimp from Moreton Bay, Queensland (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)

Crustacea Section, Queensland Museum, P. O. Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 4101.
Crustacea Periclimenes sarkanae sp. nov. Decapoda Natantia Pontoniinae taxonomy sea grass fauna Australia

Abstract

A new species of pontoniine shrimp, Periclimenes sarkanae sp. nov., from southern Queensland sea grass beds, is described and illustrated.. The new species is a member of the obscurus species-group and is most closely related to P. obscurus Kemp. Its associations, if any, are unknown.

References

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    Bruce, A.J. (in press) Palaemonoid shrimps from the Dampier Archipelago (Crustacea: Decapoda), with a review of the Western Australian pontoniine shrimp fauna. In: Diana S. Jones (ed.). Crustaceans collected by the Western Australian Museum/Woodside Energy Ltd. Partnership to explore the marine biodiversity of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia, 1998–2002. Western Australian Museum, supplement.

    Kemp, S. (1922) Notes on Crustacea Decapoda in the Indian Museum, XV. Pontoniinae. Records of the Indian Museum. 24, 113–288, figs. 1–105, pls. 3–9.