Family BRESILIIDAE Calman, 1896

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• Bresiliidae Calman, W.T. 1896. On deep sea Crustacea from the South-west of Ireland. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 31(1): 1-20 pls 1-2 [7] [name placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1957. Opinion 470. Additions to the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology of the names of one hundred and two genera of Caridea (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda) and use of the Plenary Powers for various purposes in connection therewith. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 16: 129–202].

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1957. Opinion 470. Additions to the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology of the names of one hundred and two genera of Caridea (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda) and use of the Plenary Powers for various purposes in connection therewith. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 16: 129-202.
• Disciadidae Rathbun, M.J. 1902. Brachyura and Macrura. In, Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898–1899. VIII. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 4: 275-292 figs 1-4 pl. 12 [289] [as Discidae; name placed, in the corrected spelling Disciadidae, on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1956. Opinion 433. Use of the Plenary Powers to secure that the generic name Discias Rathbun, 1902 (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda) shall be the oldest available nbame for the genus concerned. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 14: 393–402, the incorrect original spelling was placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Family-Group Names in Zoology in the same Opinion].

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1956. Opinion 433. Use of the Plenary Powers to secure that the generic name Discias Rathbun, 1902 (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda) shall be the oldest available nbame for the genus concerned. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 14: 393-402.
• Agostocarididae Hart, C.W., Jr & Manning, R.B. 1986. Two new shrimps (Procarididae and Agostocarididae, new family) from marine caves of the western north Atlantic. Journal of Crustacean Biology 6(3): 408-416 [411].
• Alvinocarididae Christofferson, M.L. 1989. Phylogenetic relationships between Oplophoridae, Atyidae, Pasiphaeidae, Alvinocarididae fam. n., Bresiliidae, Psalidopodidae and Disciadidae (Crustacea Caridea Atyoidea). Boletim de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil 10: 273-281 [273, 277].

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. [69]

Introduction

Only one genus in this family is recognised now for Australian waters. All are rare with the small, commensal, coral reef shrimp, Discias exul Kemp, being the most likely to be encountered. Other members of the family are found in a variety of habitats, and members of one genus, Alvinocaris, are even found associated with deep sea hydrothermal vents. Holthuis (1993: 69) provided a key to genera. Other useful papers dealing with the Australian fauna can be found under the species accounts.

Diagnosis

Pereiopods with exopods; first pair chelate; stouter, though often shorter, than second. Second pereiopod with undivided carpus. First maxilliped with exopod not terminating distally in broad, semidetached lobe; with endite not unusually large. Second maxilliped with exopod; with segments arranged in usual serial manner. Third maxilliped slender, pereiopod-like, not broad or operculate; with exopod. Mandible with palp and incisor process separated from molar process. First maxilla with distal endite not unusually large. Second maxilla with distal endite mesially bilobate; proximal endite not incised near distal margin; palp not vestigial. (Derived from Chace 1992).

General References

Chace, F.A., Jr 1992. On the classification of the Caridea. Crustaceana 63(1): 70-80

Holthuis, L.B. 1993. The Recent Genera of the Caridean and Stenopodidean Shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda). Alblasserdam : Ridderprint Offsetdrukkerij B.V. 328 pp.

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