Family NEMATOCARCINIDAE Smith, 1884

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• Nematocarcininae 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 [368] [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].

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   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.

Introduction

This family of shrimps seems to occur in all tropical and temperate seas, and as far south as 71ºS in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. Nematocarcinids are typically demersal, in depths ranging from 51 to 3931 metres (Chace 1986). Holthuis (1993: 79) gave a key to the three genera recognised in the family. Only two, Nematocarcinus and Lipkius, are recorded from Australia. Burokovsky (2000a–g) recently revised many of the Nematocarcinus species extensively.

Diagnosis

Rostrum immovable, attached to remainder of carapace, laterally compressed, narrow in lateral aspect; carapace relatively smooth, not strongly sculptured; antennular flagella simple, without accessory branches; mandible with palp, molar and incisor processes deeply separated; first maxilliped with flagellum on exopod; second maxilliped with terminal segment applied as narrow strip to penultimate segment; third maxilliped elongate, not unusually expanded, 5-segmented, bearing well-developed exopod and strap-like epipod; four anterior pairs of pereiopods with exopods and strap-like epipods lacking endpiece extending vertically into branchial chamber, two anterior pairs with well-developed chela and undivided carpus, three posterior pairs unusually long, with carpus several times as long as propodus; pleopods with appendix interna. (After Chace 1986).

General References

Burukovsky, R.N. 2000. Taxonomy of Nematocarcinus (Decapoda, Nematocarcinidae). 1. Description of disto-ventral organ and revision of N. productus, N. tenuipes, N. intermedius, N. parvidentatus, N. longirostris, and N. proximatus. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 79(2): 161-170 figs 1-4 [in Russian]

Burukovsky, R.N. 2000. Taxonomy of shrimps from the genus Nematocarcinus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Nematocarcinidae). 2. Revision of N. longirostris and N. altus, correction of species diagnosis in N. sigmoides and N. lanceops, and description of new species, N. batei and N. romenskyi. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 79(3): 282-290 figs 1-5 [in Russian]

Burukovsky, R.N. 2000. Taxonomy of shrimps from the genus Nematocarcinus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Nematocarcinidae). 4. Description of species from tenuirostris group. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 79(8): 898-906 figs 1-4 [in Russian]

Burukovsky, R.N. 2000. Taxonomy of shrimps from the genus Nematocarcinus (Decapoda, Nematocarcinidae). 3. Description of new species. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 79(6): 662-668 figs 1-3 [in Russian]

Burukovsky, R.N. 2000. Taxonomy of shrimps from the genus Nematocarcinus (Decapoda, Nematocarcinidae). 6. Redescription of species from the groups undulatipes and gracilis with descriptions of two new species. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 79(10): 1155-1167 figs 1-8 [in Russian]

Burukovsky, R.N. 2000. Taxonomy of shrimps of the genus Nematocarcinus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Nematocarcinidae). 7. Description of new species, N. hanamuri and N. evansi, from southwestern Australian waters. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 79(11): 1290-1293 figs 1-2 [in Russian]

Burukovsky, R.N. 2000. Taxonomy of shrimps of the genus Nematocarcinus (Decapoda, Nematocarcinidae). 5. Redescription of Nematocarcinus nudirostris and description of N. combensis, N. kaiensis, and N. subtilis. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 79(9): 1036-1044 figs 1-4 [in Russian]

Chace, F.A., Jr 1986. The Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910. Part 4: Families Oplophoridae and Nematocarcinidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 432: i-iv, 1-82

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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