Family GLYPHOCRANGONIDAE Smith, 1884

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• Glyphocrangonidae Smith, S.I. 1884. XV. Report on the decapod Crustacea of the Albatross dredgings off the east coast of the United States in 1883. Report of the United States Fish Commission 10: 345-426 [364].

Introduction

This family comprises a single genus of distinctively sculptured shrimps. They are typically deep water pelagic shrimps, found in depths from 258–6364 metres. Glyphocrangon A. Milne Edwards, 1881 was poorly known in Australia until Kensley et al. (1987) described three new species. Further species have been added for Australia by Komai (2004).

Diagnosis

Integument unusually firm, rigid; rostrum immovably attached to remainder of carapace, dorsally and ventrally flattened or concave, armed laterally with 2–7 pairs of teeth; carapace strongly sculptured with ridges, grooves, spines and tubercles; antennular flagella simple, without accessory branch; mandible without incisor process or palp; second maxilliped with terminal segment applied as broad strip to penultimate segment; third maxilliped with exopod; pereiopods without exopods, first pair imperfectly subchelate, second pair with multi-articulate carpus. (After Chace 1984).

General References

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

Kensley, B., Tranter, H.A. & Griffin, D.J.G. 1987. Deepwater Decapod Crustacea from Eastern Australia (Penaeidae and Caridea). Records of the Australian Museum 39: 263-331

Komai, T. 2004. A review of the Indo-West Pacific species of the genus Glyphocrangon A. Milne-Edwards, 1881 (excluding the G. caeca species group) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Glyphocrangonidae). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (N.S.) [1993-2016] 191: 375-610 [in Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, volume 23. Marshall, B & Richer de Forges, B (eds)]

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