Genus Palaemon Weber, 1795

Museums

Regional Maps

• Palaemon Weber, F. 1795. Nomenclator entomologicus secundum entomologian systematicam ill. Fabricii, adjectis speciebus recens detectis et varietatibus. Chiloni et Hamburgi : C.E. Bohn viii 171 pp. [94] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Palaemon adspersus Rathke, 1837 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature].
• Palaemon Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae : Proft et Storch ii 573 pp. [378, 402] [name placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1959. Opinion 564. Suppression under the Plenary Powers of the scientific name squilla Linnaeus, 1758, as published in the combination Cancer squilla, and designation under the same Plenary Powers of Palaemon adspersus Rathke, 1837, to be the type species of the genus Palaemon Weber, 1795, and matters incidental thereto (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 20: 337–358; gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Cancer squilla Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature] [422].

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1959. Opinion 564. Suppression under the Plenary Powers of the scientific name squilla Linnaeus, 1758, as published in the combination Cancer squilla, and designation under the same Plenary Powers of Palaemon adspersus Rathke, 1837, to be the type species of the genus Palaemon Weber, 1795, and matters incidental thereto (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 20: 337-358.
• Palaeander Holthuis, L.B. 1950. The Decapoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part X. The Palaemonidae collected by the Siboga and Snellius expeditions, with remarks on other species, Part I: Subfamily Palaemoninae. Siboga-Expéditie Report 39(a9): 1-268 figs 1-52 [5, 8, 55] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Palaemon elegans Rathke, 1837 by original designation.
• Palaemonopsis Stimpson, W. 1871. Notes on North American Crustacea in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, No. III. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History New York 10(4–5): 92-136 [128] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Palaemonopsis carolinus Stimpson, 1871 by subsequent designation, see Holthuis, L.B. 1955. The recent genera of the caridean and stenopodidean shrimps (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda, Supersection Natantia) with keys for their determination. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 26: 1-157 [129] (= Palaemon vulgaris Say, 1818).
• Allocaris Sollaud, E. 1911. Allocaris sinensis n.g., n.sp., crevette des eaux ouces des environs de Pékin. Infusoire commensal de ce Crustacé. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 17: 50-56 figs 1-3 [50] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Allocaris sinensis Sollaud, 1911 by monotypy.
• Alaocaris Holthuis, L.B. 1949. Note on the species of Palaemonetes (Crustacea Decapoda) found in the United States of America. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Wetenschappen 52: 87-95 [88, 89] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Palaemonetes antrorum Benedict, 1896 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Holthuis, L.B. 1993. The Recent Genera of the Caridean and Stenopodidean Shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda). Alblasserdam : Ridderprint Offsetdrukkerij B.V. 328 pp. [112]
• De Grave, S. & Ashelby, C.W. 2013. A re-appraisal of the systematic status of selected genera in Palaemoninae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Zootaxa 3734(3): 331–344 (for Palaemonetes)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide in tropical and temperate salt, brackish and fresh water.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Tasmanian South East (TSE)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

General References

Bruce, A.J. 1987. Records of three Palaemonid shrimps new to the Australian fauna. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 4(1): 57-60 [59-60] (key to Australian species)

Chace, F.A., Jr & Bruce, A.J. 1993. The Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910, Part 6: Superfamily Palaemonoidea. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 543: 1-152 [40] (key to Philippines-Indonesian species of Palaemon)

Walker, T. & Poore, G. 2003. Rediagnosis of Palaemon and differentiation of southern Australian species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 60: 243-256 [247]

 

History of changes

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