Family PASIPHAEIDAE Dana, 1852

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• 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].

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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.
• 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.

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