Family SICYONIIDAE Ortmann, 1898

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Regional Maps

• Sicyoninae Ortmann, A.E. 1898. Gliederfüssler: Arthropoda. in Dr. H. G. Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs Vol. 5(2), Crustacea, Malacostraca, (47–52) [Systematik] pp. 1057–1168. [1121] [placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1956. Direction 54. Addition to the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology, or as the case may be, to the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Family-Group Names in Zoology of the family-group names involved in the cases dealt with in Volume 12 of the Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, other than family-group names already dealt with in those Opinions. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 12(26): 457–470 (460)].

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1956. Direction 54. Addition to the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology, or as the case may be, to the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Family-Group Names in Zoology of the family-group names involved in the cases dealt with in Volume 12 of the Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, other than family-group names already dealt with in those Opinions. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 12(26): 457-470.

Introduction

This family contains a single genus, Sicyonia, with four species in Australian waters. Hanamura & Wadley (1998) provided a key to the Indo-West Pacific species.

Diagnosis

Body thickset. Integument rigid, pubescent. Rostrum armed with dorsal and usually apical teeth, lacking ventral teeth, short, not overreaching antennular peduncle. Carapace without postorbital and pterygostomian spines, bearing or lacking antennal spine; cervical sulcus very weak or absent; hepatic carina weak, branchiocardiac carina strong to barely distinct. Abdomen marked by transverse sulci, often tuberculate. Telson armed with pair of lateral fixed subterminal spines. Eye with optic calathus articulated directly to basal segment of eyestalk, intermediate segment not apparent, without mesial tubercle; basal segment without ocular scale; ocular plate bearing styliform mesial projection (stylet). Antennule with prosartema rudimentary, flagella short, cylindrical. Third through fifth pleopods uniramous, lacking endopods (unique in Penaeoidea). Exopod on first maxilliped, absent from second and third maxillipeds and all pereiopods. Pleurobranchia on somite IX only; rudimentary arthrobranchia on somite VII, two arthrobranchiae on somites VIII through XIII, anteroventral one of XIII rudimentary; podobranchia on second maxilliped; epipods on first and second maxillipeds and first three pereiopods. Petasma closed, its lateral lobes heavily sclerotised. Second pleopods in male bearing appendix masculina only. Thelycum closed. (After Pérez Farfante & Kensley 1997).

General References

Hanamura, Y. & Wadley, V. 1998. A new species of the rock shrimp genus Sicyonia (Decapoda, Sicyoniidae) from South-Eastern Australia, with a key to the Indo-West Pacific species. Crustaceana 71(6): 700-711

Pérez Farfante, I. & Kensley, B. 1997. Penaeoid and sergestoid shrimps and prawns of the world. Keys and diagnoses for the families and genera. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 175: 1-233

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