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Palaemonetes Heller 1869

Description

Palaemonetes Heller, 1869

Palaemonetes Heller, 1869: 157; Holthuis, 1952: 199; Chace, 1972: 12; Williams, 1984: 71.

Diagnosis. Rostrum with teeth on dorsal and ventral margins. Carapace with antennal and branchiostegal spines. Mandible without palp. Maxillipeds with exopods. Dactyli of pereopods 3 to 5 simple. Telson with two pairs of dorsal spines and two pairs of spines on the posterior margin.

Notes

Published as part of Ferreira, Rodrigo Simões, Vieira, Rony Roberto Ramos & D'Incao, Fernando, 2010, The marine and estuarine shrimps of the Palaemoninae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Brazil, pp. 1-24 in Zootaxa 2606 on page 19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.197695

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Heller
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Palaemonidae
Genus
Palaemonetes
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Palaemonetes Heller, 1869 sec. Ferreira, Vieira & D'Incao, 2010

References

  • Heller, C. (1869) Zur naheren Kentniss der in den sussen Gewassern des sudlichen Europa vorkommenden Meerescrustaceen. Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 19, 156 - 162.
  • Holthuis, L. B. (1952) A general revision of the Palaemonidae (Crustacea Decapoda Natantia) of the Americas. II. The subfamily Palaemoninae. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, Los Angeles, 12, 1 - 395.
  • Chace, F. (1972) The shrimps of the Smithsonian Caribbean Expeditions with a summary of the west Indian shallowwaters species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Natantia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 98, 1 - 179.
  • Williams, A. B. (1984) Shrimps, lobsters and crabs of the Atlantic coast of the eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 550 p.