• Pasiphaeidae Dana, J.D. 1852. Conspectus Crustaceorum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Foederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 6: 10-28 [13, 18] [name placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names, 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].

  Secondary source:

   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.
• Leptochelidae Paul'son, O.M. 1875. Podophthalmata i Edriophthalmata (Cumacea) Part I. In, Izledovaniya Rakoobraznykh Krasnago Morya s Zamekami Otnositel'no Rakoobraznykh Drugikhv Morie. Kiev : Kul'zhenko. i-xiv 1-144 pp. pls 1-21 [reissued and translated by F.D. Por, 1961: Studies on Crustacea of the Red Sea with notes regarding other seas. Part I. Podophthalmata and Edriophthalmata (Cumacea). Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations; published for the National Science Foundation and Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: pp. 1–134, pls 1–21] [99].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Holthuis, L.B. 1993. The Recent Genera of the Caridean and Stenopodidean Shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda). Alblasserdam : Ridderprint Offsetdrukkerij B.V. 328 pp. [23]

Introduction

This family of mostly pelagic shrimps can be found from surface waters to abyssal depths in excess of 5000 metres. Holthuis (1993: 23) provided a key to the genera and two subgenera recognised at that time, but a new genus Alainopasiphaea has also since been recognised (Hayashi 1999). All but Alainopasiphaea are found in Australian waters.

Diagnosis

All pereiopods bearing exopods. First and second pairs of pereiopods chelate, with long, slender, pectinate fingers. Second pereiopod with carpus entire, not articulate. First maxilliped with broad lobe partially detached from distal end of exopod; endite much reduced. Second maxilliped without exopod; with terminal segment attached to distal transverse margin of preceding segment. Third maxilliped slender, pereiopod-like, not broad or operculate, with exopod bearing lash. Mandible without true molar process, with or without palp. First maxilla with distal endite not unusually large, proximal endite slightly reduced. Second maxilla with endite much suppressed, palp well developed, scaphognathite rounded proximally, not narrowly produced. Both arthrobranchaie and pleurobranchiae present on some posterior pereiopods. (Derived from Chace 1992).

General References

Chace, F.A., Jr 1992. On the classification of the Caridea. Crustaceana 63(1): 70-80

Hayashi, K.-I. 1999. Crustacea Decapoda: Revision of Pasiphaea sivado (Risso, 1816) and related species, with descriptions of one new genus and five new species (Pasiphaeidae). pp. 267-302 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 20. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 180: 1-588

Holthuis, L.B. 1993. The Recent Genera of the Caridean and Stenopodidean Shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda). Alblasserdam : Ridderprint Offsetdrukkerij B.V. 328 pp.

History of changes

• Alainopasiphaea Hayashi, K.-I. 1999. Crustacea Decapoda: Revision of Pasiphaea sivado (Risso, 1816) and related species, with descriptions of one new genus and five new species (Pasiphaeidae). pp. 267-302 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 20. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 180: 1-588.

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Western Australia

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Southwest Transition (7)

History of changes

• Pasiphaea australis Hanamura, Y. 1989. Deep-sea shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) collected by the R.V. "Soela" from southern Australia. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 44: 51-69 [59].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM (345-350 m), Maria Island area, off E Tasmania (RV Soela Stn SO3-84-62) [42°42.0'S 148°24.0'E].
  Paratype(s); USNM; NSMT.

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Southwest Transition (7)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, mesopelagic, oceanic province.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 345–680 m.

History of changes

• Eupasiphae Wood-Mason, J. & Alcock, A. 1893. Natural history notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer "Investigator" Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N. commanding. Series II. No. 1. On the results of the Deep Sea Dredging during the Season 1890–1891. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 11(February 1893): 161-172 pls 10-11 [165] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Parasiphae gilesii Wood-Mason, 1892 by subsequent designation, see Holthuis, L.B. 1955. The recent genera of the caridean and stenopodidean shrimps (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda, Supersection Natantia) with keys for their determination. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 26: 1-157 [36].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic-Indo-Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4)

General References

Crosnier, A. 1988. Les Eupasiphae (Crustacea Decapoda Pasiphaeidae) du sud-ouest de l'ocean Indien. Description d'E. paucidentata sp. nov. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 4 10(ser. A): 785-797 (key to species)

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

History of changes

• Parapasiphae gilesii Wood-Mason, J. & Alcock, A. 1893. Natural history notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer "Investigator" Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N. commanding. Series II. No. 1. On the results of the Deep Sea Dredging during the Season 1890–1891. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 11(February 1893): 161-172 pls 10-11 [166].

  Type data:

   Holotype IM ♀, Cinque Island, Andaman Sea.
• Eupasiphae rhinocerata Burukovsky, R.N. 1977. A new species of the family Pasiphaeidae (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 56: 473-475 [in Russian] [473].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZIL (presumed depository institution. Collected from 1400-2060 m depth), off Morocco, near Meteor Shoal, eastern Atlantic Ocean [30°00'N, 28°43'W].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Crosnier, A. 1988. Les Eupasiphae (Crustacea Decapoda Pasiphaeidae) du sud-ouest de l'ocean Indien. Description d'E. paucidentata sp. nov. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 4 10(ser. A): 785-797 [786]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic-Indo Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Timor Province (2), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, mesopelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 340–1893 m.

General References

Hanamura, Y. & Evans, D.R. 1994. Deepwater caridean shrimps of the families Oplophoridae and Pasiphaeidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Western Australia, with an appendix on a lophogastridan mysid (Mysidacea). Crustacean Research 23: 46-60 [52]

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 [293]

History of changes

• Parapasiphae latirostris Wood-Mason, J. in Wood-Mason, J. & Alcock, A. 1891. Natural History notes from H. M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer `Investigator', Commander R. F. Hoskyn, R.N., commanding. No 21. Note on the results of the last season's deep-sea dredging. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 7: 1-19, 186-202, 258-272 [196].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, IM ♀, Laccadive Sea, off Goa coast.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indian Ocean.

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4)

Ecological Descriptors

Bathypelagic, continental rise, continental slope, mesopelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Australian material from 900–1023 m depth.

General References

Hanamura, Y. & Evans, D.R. 1994. Deepwater caridean shrimps of the families Oplophoridae and Pasiphaeidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Western Australia, with an appendix on a lophogastridan mysid (Mysidacea). Crustacean Research 23: 46-60 [53] (first Australian record)

History of changes

• Glyphus Filhol, H. 1884. Exploration sous-marine Voyage du "Talisman". La nature, Paris. 12 (part 1), 119–122, 134–138, 147–151, 161–164, 182–186, 198–202, 230–234, 278–282, 326–330, 391–394. [231] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Glyphus marsupialis Filhol, 1884 by monotypy.
• Sympasiphaea Alcock, A. 1901. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Indian Deep-sea Crustacea Decapoda Macrura and Anomura in the Indian Museum. Being a revised account of the deep-sea species collected by the Royal Indian marine survey ship "Investigator". Calcutta : Indian Museum Vol. 4 286 pp. 3 pls. [58, 62, 63] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Sympasiphaea annectens Alcock, 1901 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Holthuis, L.B. 1993. The Recent Genera of the Caridean and Stenopodidean Shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda). Alblasserdam : Ridderprint Offsetdrukkerij B.V. 328 pp. [25]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

E Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Glyphus marsupialis Filhol, H. 1884. Exploration sous-marine Voyage du "Talisman". La nature, Paris. 12 (part 1), 119–122, 134–138, 147–151, 161–164, 182–186, 198–202, 230–234, 278–282, 326–330, 391–394. [231].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♀, off Western Sahara, West Africa (Taliman Stn 75) [25°39'N 16°02'W].
  Paratype(s) MNHP 4♂ 10♀, off coast of west Africa between 23º50'N and 20º38'N (Talisman Stns 84, 86, 88–90, 98).
• Sympasiphae annectens Alcock, A. 1901. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Indian Deep-sea Crustacea Decapoda Macrura and Anomura in the Indian Museum. Being a revised account of the deep-sea species collected by the Royal Indian marine survey ship "Investigator". Calcutta : Indian Museum Vol. 4 286 pp. 3 pls. [63].

  Type data:

   Holotype IM 3817/10, Arabian Sea, SW of Cape Comorin.
• Sympasiphae imperialis Terao, A. 1922. A new decapod crustacean, Sympasiphaea imperialis, n. sp. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 10: 109-113 [110, 1 fig.].

  Type data:

   Holotype (destroyed), Suruga Bay, Japan.
  Paratype(s) BLIH.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hanamura, Y. & Evans, D.R. 1994. Deepwater caridean shrimps of the families Oplophoridae and Pasiphaeidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Western Australia, with an appendix on a lophogastridan mysid (Mysidacea). Crustacean Research 23: 46-60 [54]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

East Atlantic-Indo-west central Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4)

Ecological Descriptors

Bathypelagic, continental rise, continental slope, mesopelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Australian specimens from 1061–1071 m depth.

History of changes

• Leptochela Stimpson, W. 1860. Crustacea Macrura. Pars VIII of Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 12: 22-47 [42] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Leptochela gracilis Stimpson, 1860 by subsequent designation, see Kemp, S. 1915. Crustacea, Decapoda. Fauna of the Chilka Lake. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 5: 201-325 figs 1-38 pls 12-13 [310].
• Proboloura Chace, F.A., Jr 1976. Shrimps of the pasiphaeid genus Leptochela with descriptions of three new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 222: 1-51 [44] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Leptochela carinata Ortmann, 1893 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Chace, F.A., Jr 1976. Shrimps of the pasiphaeid genus Leptochela with descriptions of three new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 222: 1-51 [3, 44]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific Oceans, tropical western Atlantic.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Leptochela (Leptochela) aculeocaudata Paul'son, O.M. 1875. Studies on Crustacea of the Red Sea with Notes regarding other Seas. Part I. Podophthalmata and Edriophthalmata (Cumacea). Jerusalem : The Israel Program for Scientific Translations 164 pp. 21 pls. [reissued and translated by F.D. Por, 1961] [100 pl. 16 fig. 1-1s] [translation 1961 p. 106, pl. 15, figs 1–1s].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Red Sea.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Red Sea.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, epipelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

51–88 m depth.

History of changes

• Leptochela (Leptochela) irrobusta Chace, F.A., Jr 1976. Shrimps of the pasiphaeid genus Leptochela with descriptions of three new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 222: 1-51 [19 figs 14-18].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 94729 ♀, Lagoon of Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.
  Paratype(s) USNM.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, epipelagic, sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

35–70 m depth.

History of changes

• Leptochela (Leptochela) japonica Hayashi, K.-I. & Miyake, S. 1969. A new species of the genus Leptochela from northern Kyushu, Japan (Decapoda, Caridea, Pasiphaeidae). Publications from the Amakusa Marine Biological Laboratory 2(1): 1-8 3 figs [1 figs 1, 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZLKU 11182 ♀, Tachibana-wan [Chijiwa Bay], north-western Kyushu, Japan.
  Paratype(s) ZLKU 11183, 11184, 11677 (types probably now transferred to Kitakyushu Natural History Museum).

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Gulf of Thailand, southern Japan.

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, epipelagic, mesopelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

45–525 m depth.

History of changes

• Leptochela (Leptochela) pugnax de Man, J.G. 1916. Diagnoses of new species of macrurous decapod Crustacea from the Siboga Expedition. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 2: 147-151 [148].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ZMA, Indonesia: five localities between Java and the Moluccas.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, coral reef, epipelagic, sand bottom, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

8–140 m depth.

History of changes

• Leptochela (Leptochela) robusta Stimpson, W. 1860. Crustacea Macrura. Pars VIII of Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 12: 22-47 [43].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (destroyed in the Chicago fire of 1871), 'Mari Sinensi' [South China Sea].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

South China Sea, Philippine Islands, Indonesia.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, epipelagic, sand bottom, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Coral sand and shells.

History of changes

• Leptochela (Proboloura) soelae Hanamura, Y. 1987. Caridean shrimps obtained by R.V. "Soela" from North-West Australia, with description of a new species of Leptochela (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pasiphaeidae). The Beagle. Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 4(1): 15-33 [21 figs 6-8].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM Cr.003605 ♀, North West Shelf, WA.
  Paratype(s) NTM Cr.003606 1♂, North West Shelf, WA; NTM Cr.003607 1 juvenile, North West Shelf, WA; NSMT Cr.9205 1♀, North West Shelf, WA; NSMT Cr.9206 1♂, North West Shelf, WA; USNM 233802 1♀, North West Shelf, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, epipelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

80–82 m depth.

History of changes

• Leptochela (Leptochela) sydniensis Dakin, W.J. & Colefax, A.N. 1940. The plankton of the Australian coastal waters of New South Wales, Part No. 1: With special reference to the seasonal distribution, the phytoplankton, and the planktonic Crustacea, and in particular, the Copepoda and crustacean larvae, together with an account of the more frequent members of the groups Mysidacea, Euphausiacea, Amphipoda, Mollusca, Tunicata, Chaetognatha, and some reference to the fish eggs and fish larvae. University of Sydney, Department of Zoology, Monograph 1: 1-215 303 figs 4 pls [153 figs 245, 246].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, AM (presumed lost), off Sydney, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific (Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, South China Sea, Japan, Philippines, New Caledonia).

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, epipelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Occasionally found in sediment samples, pelagic at night and buried in substrate by day, 2–300 m depth.

General References

Chace, F.A., Jr 1976. Shrimps of the pasiphaeid genus Leptochela with descriptions of three new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 222: 1-51 [44] (redescription)

History of changes