• Guyanacaris Sakai, K. 2011. Axioidea of the world and a reconsideration of the Callianassoidea (Decapoda, Thalassinidea, Callianassida). Crustaceana Monographs 13: 1-616.

  Type species:

   Calocaris (Calastacus) hirsutimana Boesch & Smalley, 1972 by original designation.
• Bruceaxius Sakai, K. 2011. Axioidea of the world and a reconsideration of the Callianassoidea (Decapoda, Thalassinidea, Callianassida). Crustaceana Monographs 13: 1-616 [82].

  Type species:

   Acanthaxius polychaetes Sakai, 1994 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Acanthaxius polychaetes Sakai, K. 1994. Eleven species of Australian Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea) with descriptions of one new genus and five new species. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 11: 175-202 [193 figs 11-13].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM Cr.007156 ♂ (259-260 m depth), Great Barrier Reef, SE of Cairns, Qld [17°57.5'S 147°03.5'E].

Generic Combinations

• Bruceaxius polychaetes (Sakai, 1994).
• Guyanacaris polychaetes (Sakai, 1994).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 259–260 m.

General References

Poore, G.C.B. 2020. Axiid and micheleid lobsters from Indo-West Pacific deep-sea environments (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea: Axiidae, Micheleidae). In: Corbari, L., Chan, T.-Y. and Ahyong, S.T. (eds) Deep-sea crustaceans from Papua New Guinea. Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos vol. 31. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 213: 259-367 [264] (generic placement)

History of changes