Pontocaris arafurae
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3. Pontocaris arafurae (Bruce, 1988)
Pontocheras arafurae Bruce, 1988: 213, pl. 86, figs. 1–6, 7A–E (type locality: Arafura Sea) Pontocaris arafurae.— Holthuis, 1993: 377, 298, fig. 295.— Chan, 1996: 297, fig. 9.
Material examined. Western Australia: 1 female CL= 8.8 mm, North West Cape, 21°32.17′S, 114°03.72′E, stn.: 103501, depth: 100 m, date: 15 Mar 2001, WAM reg. no. C28780.
Distribution. Previously known from Arafura Sea of Australia to Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore. The present records: Western Australia; at depths of 10–199 meters.
Remarks. This record is the first record from Western Australia. The present material agrees well with the description of and illustrations by Bruce (1988) and Chan (1996), including lateral carina on carapace armed with only 1 tooth; lateral ridges on pleonal somite 2 interrupted and sinuous, pleonal somite 3 lacking anterdorsal tooth; branchiostegal spine moderately long; pleonal somite 4 without distinct posteromedian tooth.
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- WAM
- Event date
- 2001-03-15
- Verbatim event date
- 2001-03-15
- Scientific name authorship
- Bruce
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Crangonidae
- Genus
- Pontocaris
- Species
- arafurae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pontocaris arafurae (Bruce, 1988) sec. Han & Keesing, 2018
References
- Bruce, A. J. (1988) A new crangonid shrimp, Pontocheras arafurae gen. et sp. n., from the Arafura Sea. Zoologica scripta, 17 (2), 213 - 221.
- Holthuis, L. B. (1993) Recent genera of the caridean and stenopodidean shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda), with an appendix on the order Amphionidacea. National Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden, 328 pp.
- Chan, T. Y. (1996) Crustacea Decapoda Crangonidae: revision of the three closely related genera Aegaeon Agassiz, 1846, Pontocaris Bate, 1888 and Parapontocaris Alcock, 1901. Memoires du Museum national d'histoire naturelle, 168, 269 - 336.