Species Nematocarcinus lanceopes Spence Bate, 1888

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nematocarcinus lanceopes Spence Bate, C. 1888. Report on the Crustacea Macrura collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 24: 1-942, i-xc figs 1-76 pls 1-150 [804 pl. 131].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀ (1260 fms), Antarctic Sea [60°52'S 80°20'E].
• Acanthephyra antarctica Bage, F. 1938. Crustacea Decapoda (in part). Scientific Reports of the Australasian Antarctic Research Expedition, 1911-1914 2(6): 1-13 [6 pl. 4 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM P11306 (870 fms), Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica [63°13'S 101°42'E]; AM P11307, Antarctica; AM P11310–312, Antarctica.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hale, H.M. 1941. Decapod Crustacea. Report of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1928–31 4(9): 257-285 figs [264]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Southern circumpolar.

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Bathypelagic, mesopelagic, oceanic province.

Extra Ecological Information

243–2268 m depth.

General References

Burukovsky, R.N. 2000. Taxonomy of shrimps from the genus Nematocarcinus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Nematocarcinidae). 2. Revision of N. longirostris and N. altus, correction of species diagnosis in N. sigmoides and N. lanceops, and description of new species, N. batei and N. romenskyi. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 79(3): 282-290 figs 1-5 [in Russian] [286]

Komai, T., Takeuchi, I. & Takeda, M. 1996. Deep-sea shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the Antarctic Sea collected during the Jare-35 Cruise. Proceedings of the National Institute of Polar Research Symposium on Polar Biology, Tokyo 9: 179-206 [181 figs 1-5]

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