Family SPONGICOLIDAE Schram, 1986

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spongicolidae Schram, F.R. 1986. Crustacea. London, New York : Oxford University Press 606 pp. [284].

Introduction

This family of small, spiny, shrimp-like decapods comprises five genera worldwide. Two genera are represented in Australian waters, each by one speices. Holthuis (1993) provided a key to genera.

Diagnosis

Stenopodidea with body more or less depressed; propodus of second maxilliped with rounded, unarmed, ventral margin; exopod of third maxilliped typically absent or only rudimentary; telson rounded, short or long, but broad, triangular, subtriangular, or subquadrangular, ending in three to five subequal spines; uropodal endopod usually with a single longitudinal dorsal ridge. Chelate appendages with chitinous ridges distally on cutting edges, rarely with few small sharp teeth; propodus of third pereiopod broad, if long, robust not slender. Branchial formula variable, composed of 11-19 branchial exites. (J.W. Goy in litt.)

General References

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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