Genus Leptopalaemon Bruce & Short, 1993

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• Leptopalaemon Bruce, A.J. & Short, J.W. 1993. Leptopalaemon gagadjui gen. nov., sp. nov., a new freshwater Palaemonid shrimp from Arnhem Land, and a re-evaluation of Palaemonetes holthuisi Strenth, with the designation of a new genus, Calathaemon. Hydrobiologia 257(2): 73-95 [73] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Leptopalaemon gagadjui Bruce & Short, 1993 by monotypy.
• Kakaducaris Bruce, A.J. 1993. Kakaducaris glabra gen. nov., sp. nov., a new freshwater shrimp from the Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae with the designation of a new subfamily Kakaducaridinae. Hydrobiologia 268: 27-44 [27] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Kakaducaris glabra Bruce, 1993 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Short, J.W., Humphrey, C.L. & Page, T.J. 2013. Systematic revision and reappraisal of the Kakaducarididae Bruce (Crustacea : Decapoda : Caridea) with the description of three new species of Leptopalaemon Bruce & Short. Invertebrate Systematics 27: 87–117

Introduction

Genus assigned to Palaemonidae by Short et al. (2013).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

General References

Short, J.W., Humphrey, C.L. & Page, T.J. 2013. Systematic revision and reappraisal of the Kakaducarididae Bruce (Crustacea : Decapoda : Caridea) with the description of three new species of Leptopalaemon Bruce & Short. Invertebrate Systematics 27: 87–117

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