Family CRANGONIDAE Haworth, 1825

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• Crangonidae Haworth, A.H. 1825. A new binary arrangement of the macrurus Crustacea. Philosophical Magazine and Journal 65: 183-184 [184] [name, as Crangonidae White, 1847, placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1955. Opinion 334. Validation, under the Plenary Powers, of the generic names Crangon Fabricius, 1798, and Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 10: 1–44, but corrected in 1987, in Official Lists: 11].

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   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1955. Opinion 334. Validation, under the Plenary Powers, of the generic names Crangon Fabricius, 1798, and Alpheus Fabricius, 1798 (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 10: 1-44.
• Pontocaridinae Christofferson, M.L. 1988. Genealogy and phylogenetic classification of the world Crangonidae (Crustacea, Caridea), with a new species and new records of the south western Atlantic. Revista Nordestina de Biologia 6(1): 43-59, illustrated [46].
• Philocherinae Christofferson, M.L. 1988. Genealogy and phylogenetic classification of the world Crangonidae (Crustacea, Caridea), with a new species and new records of the south western Atlantic. Revista Nordestina de Biologia 6(1): 43-59, illustrated [46].
• Pontophilinae Christofferson, M.L. 1988. Genealogy and phylogenetic classification of the world Crangonidae (Crustacea, Caridea), with a new species and new records of the south western Atlantic. Revista Nordestina de Biologia 6(1): 43-59, illustrated [46].
• Paracrangonidae Christofferson, M.L. 1988. Genealogy and phylogenetic classification of the world Crangonidae (Crustacea, Caridea), with a new species and new records of the south western Atlantic. Revista Nordestina de Biologia 6(1): 43-59, illustrated [46].

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. [282]

Introduction

The Crangonidae is virtually a cosmopolitan family of shrimps, found from the littoral zone down to abyssal depths (Chace 1984). Currently 20 genera are recognised, of which eleven are found in Australian waters. There has been little modern work on Australian crangonids although new species were described recently by Hanamura et al. (1999) and Bruce (1994). Holthuis (1997: 283) provided a key to genera.

Diagnosis

Rostrum variable, usually short, depressed, immovably attached to remainder of carapace; carapace often sculptured with carinae, spines, or both; antennular flagella simple, without accessory branches; mandible without incisor process or palp; second maxilliped with terminal segment semicircular, attached diagonally to penultimate segment; first pair of pereiopods subchelate, second pair (if present) with undivided carpus. (After Chace 1984).

General References

Bruce, A.J. 1994. Shrimps from Flat-Top Bank, Timor Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 42(4): 743-756

Chace, F.A., Jr 1984. The Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910, Part 2: Families Glyphocrangonidae and Crangonidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 397: 1-63

Hanamura, Y., Wadley, V. & Taylor, J. 1999. Description of a new species of the Pacific shrimp genus Paracrangon (Crustacea: Decapoda: Crangonidae) from southern Australia, with a key to the genus. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 57(2): 311-317

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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