Species Onycocaris spinosa Fujino & Miyake, 1969

Museums

Regional Maps

• Onycocaris spinosa Fujino, T. & Miyake, S. 1969. Studies on the genus Onycocaris with descriptions of five new species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae). Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University 15: 403-448 [429-435, figs 13-15].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZLKU 12056 ♂, Yoron-jima, Ryukyu Island and Okinawa.
  Paratype(s) ZLKU 12057 ♀.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Reported from Heron Island by Bruce (1969). Otherwise known only from the Ryukyu Islands (Fujino & Miyake, 1969; Bruce, 1985); West Pacific Ocean

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

In sponge on reef slope, depth 10 m.

 

General References

Bruce, A.J. 1985. Some caridean associates of scleractinian corals in the Ryukyu Islands. Galaxea 4: 1-21, figs 1-12, pl. 1 [9-10, fig 7]

Bruce, A.J. 1990. Recent additions to the Pontoniine shrimp fauna of Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 7(2): 9-20 fig 1, tables 1-2 [11]

Bruce, A.J. 2010. More pontoniine shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the CReefs 2009 Heron Island expedition. Zootaxa 2604: 20-36 [20]

Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 551 pp. [316]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Jul-2013		22-Jul-2013	MODIFIED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
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