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Issue: Vol. 5476 No. 1: 4 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5476.1.11
Page range: 89-98
Abstract views: 10
PDF downloaded: 2

Platypontonia ngae sp. nov., a new symbiotic shrimp (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) living inside a boring gastrochaenid bivalve mollusk from the Philippines

Naturalis Biodiversity Center; P.O. Box 9517; NL-2300 RA Leiden; The Netherlands
Crustacea Malacostraca Caridea symbiosis Mollusca Gastrochaenidae Philippines

Abstract

A new symbiotic palaemonid shrimp Platypontonia ngae sp. nov., is described based on a male-female pair found inside the mantle cavity of a gastrochaenid bivalve mollusk collected on a coral slope on the island Panglao, Philippines. The new species constitutes the third member of the genus Platypontonia Bruce, 1968. The new species is described, figured and compared with its congeners.

 

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