Family UPOGEBIIDAE Borradaile, 1903

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Family UPOGEBIIDAE Borradaile, 1903

Upogebiinae Borradaile, L.A. 1903. On the classification of the Thalassinidea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12(7): 534-551, 638 [542] [name placed on the Official List of Family Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1956. Opinion 434. Use of the Plenary Powers to secure that the name Upegebia [Leach], [1814], and Processa Leach, [1815], shall be the oldest names for the genera in question and that the family-group names based on these generic names shall be the oldest available names for the family-group taxa concerned. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 14: 403–424].
Type genus:
Upogebia Leach, 1814.
Secondary source:
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1956. Opinion 434. Use of the Plenary Powers to secure that the name Upegebia [Leach], [1814], and Processa Leach, [1815], shall be the oldest names for the genera in question and that the family-group names based on these generic names shall be the oldest available names for the family-group taxa concerned. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 14: 403-424.
Gebiadae Haworth, A.H. 1825. A new binary arrangement of the macrurus Crustacea. Philosophical Magazine and Journal 65: 183-184 [184].
Type genus:
Gebia Leach, 1815.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, 13: i-viii, 1-292 [232]

Introduction

Upogebiids are represented by five genera in Australia. They occur in a wide variety of habitats from the intertidal zone to at least 200 metres depth, and from burrowing in estuarine mud banks to living in sponges and cavities in coral. Key works to identify Australian species are those of Poore & Griffin (1979), Sakai (1982, 1993), and Ngoc-Ho (1994). Poore (1994) provided a key to genera.

Diagnosis

Reptant decapods without a thelycum in the female. Carapace with linea thalassinica present; posterior margin of carapace evenly curved; antenna 1 with article 3 as long as or longer than article 2; rostrum usually broad, spinose and dorsally setose; eyestalks cylindrical; maxilla 2 scaphognathite without long seta on posterior lobe; gill elements paired. Pereiopods 1–5 having basis and ischium fused; first pereiopods equal, chelate and carpus-propodus articulation slight; pereiopod 2 simple; always with dense row of long setae on lower margin; pereiopod 3 simple, propodus linear; pereiopod 4 simple or subchelate, coxa cylindrical; pereiopod 5 chelate or subchelate, without arthrobranch on thoracomere 1; pereiopods 3 and 4 propodus without spiniform setae on lower margin. Thoracic sternite 7 narrow. Abdominal somite 1 chitinised, without anterolateral lobes, pleuron weak; pleopod 2 similar to pleopods 3–5, rami lanceolate, pleopods without appendix interna; uropodal exopod triangular; pereiopods 2–4 and abdominal somites without setal-rows. (After Poore 1994).