Family ACANTHEPHYRIDAE Spence Bate, 1888
Compiler and date details
May 2012 - Peter Davie, Queensland Museum, Brisbane
- Acanthephyridae Spence Bate, C. 1888. Report on the Crustacea Macrura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 24: 1-942, i-xc figs 1-76 pls 1-150 [24].
- Miersiidae Smith, S.I. 1886. Report on the Decapod Crustacea of the Albatross Dredgings off the East-coast of the United States during the Summer and Autumn of 1884. Report of the United States Fish Commission 13: 605-705 pls 1-20 [dated 1887, but preprint (101 pp.) was available in 1886] [608, 619, 667].
- Tropiocaridae Spence Bate, C. 1888. Report on the Crustacea Macrura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 24: 1-942, i-xc figs 1-76 pls 1-150 [24].
Introduction
The Acanthephyridae has long been considered synonymous with the Oplophoridae but recently the latter family was shown to be polyphyletic (Chan et al. 2010), and the Acanthephyridae has been now resurrected to include seven of the ten genera previously in that family (see De Grave & Fransen 2011). Currently five genera are recorded for Australia.
General References
Chan, T.-Y., Lei, H.C., Li, C.P. & Chu, K.H. 2010. Phylogenetic analysis using rDNa reveals polyphyly of Oplophoridae (Decapoda: Caridea). Invertebrate Systematics 24: 172-181
De Grave, S. & Fransen, C.H.J.M. 2011. Carideorum Catalogus: The recent species of the Dendrobrachiate, Stenopodidean, Procarididean and Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 85(9): 195-589, figs 1-59
History of changes
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| 20-Dec-2011 | ADDED |