Family UPOGEBIIDAE Borradaile, 1903

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• Upogebiinae Borradaile, L.A. 1903. On the classification of the Thalassinidea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12(7): 534-551, 638 [542] [name placed on the Official List of Family Names in Zoology, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1956. Opinion 434. Use of the Plenary Powers to secure that the name Upegebia [Leach], [1814], and Processa Leach, [1815], shall be the oldest names for the genera in question and that the family-group names based on these generic names shall be the oldest available names for the family-group taxa concerned. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 14: 403–424].

  Type genus:

   Upogebia Leach, 1814.

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1956. Opinion 434. Use of the Plenary Powers to secure that the name Upegebia [Leach], [1814], and Processa Leach, [1815], shall be the oldest names for the genera in question and that the family-group names based on these generic names shall be the oldest available names for the family-group taxa concerned. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 14: 403-424.
• Gebiadae Haworth, A.H. 1825. A new binary arrangement of the macrurus Crustacea. Philosophical Magazine and Journal 65: 183-184 [184].

  Type genus:

   Gebia Leach, 1815.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, 13: i-viii, 1-292 [232]

Introduction

Upogebiid shrimps are found under rocks, inside sponges or burrowing in sediments. Most are instantly recognised by their compact form and setose flat rostrum. The eastern Pacific species, Upogebia pugettensis, forms male-female pairs living in permanent U-shaped burrows up to 1 m deep in soft muds of tidal flats. There, they pump water through the burrow to feed on plankton and suspended detritus.

Upogebiids are represented by five genera in Australia. They occur in a wide variety of habitats from the intertidal zone to at least 200 metres depth, and from burrowing in estuarine mud banks to living in sponges and cavities in coral. Key works to identify Australian species are those of Poore & Griffin (1979), Sakai (1982, 1993, 2008), and Ngoc-Ho (1994). Poore (1994) provided a key to genera.

Diagnosis

Rostrum bluntly rounded or triangular, setose, usually with marginal teeth. Maxilla 2 scaphognathite with rounded posterior lobe without long setae. Antennular peduncular article 3 about as long as proximal articles. Uropodal rami flat, both without transverse suture.

Diagnosis References

Poore, G.C.B.,& Ahyong, S.T. 2023. Marine decapod Crustacea. A guide to families and genera of the World. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing pp. 928.

General References

Ngoc-Ho, N. 1994. Some Callianassidae and Upogebiidae from Australia with descriptions of four new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 54: 51-78

Poore, G.C.B. & Griffin, D.J.G. 1979. The Thalassinidea (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 32(6): 217-321

Sakai, K. 1982. Revision of Upogebiidae (Decapoda, Thalassinidea) in the Indo-west Pacific Region. Researches on Crustacea. Special Number 1. Tokyo : The Carcinological Society of Japan 106 pp. 7 pls 20 figs.

Sakai, K. 1993. On a collection of Upogebiidae (Crustacea, Thalassinidea) from the Northern Territory Museum, Australia, with the description of two new species. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 10(1): 87-114

Sakai, K. 2006. Upogebiidae of the world (Decapoda, Thalassinidea). Crustaceana Monographs 6: 1-185

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