Species Leptopalaemon gagadjui Bruce & Short, 1993
Common Kakadu-shrimp
- Leptopalaemon gagadjui 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 [75 figs 1-6].
Type data:
Holotype NTM Cr.002103A ♂, Arnhem Land plateau, Northern Territory.
Paratype(s) NTM Cr.002103B—C 2♂; RMNH D41285 ♂, Australia, Northern Territory, Arnhem Land; escarpment stream between Saw Cut Gorge and Deaf Adder Creek; QM W16550 2♂ 7♀; QM W16542 5♀; QM W16655 3♀, Australia, Northern Territory, Arnhem Land; escarpment stream between Saw Cut Gorge and Deaf Adder Creek; QM W17109 1♂.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
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)
Ecological Descriptors
Freshwater, gregarious, noctidiurnal, rock bottom, sand bottom.
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 [95] (revised diagnosis)
History of changes
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |