A revision of the generic position of Typton australis Bruce, 1973 (Decapoda: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae), with a new diagnosis for the pontoniine shrimp genus Onycocaridella Bruce, 1981
Author
Marin, Ivan
text
Zootaxa
2008
1897
64
66
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.184464
62d634e9-8d53-4e39-8c66-a26abbd0945a
1175-5326
184464
Onycocaridella australis
(
Bruce, 1973
)
comb. nov.
Typton australis
Bruce, 1973
: 254
, figs. 1–4 [
type
locality: Queensland,
Australia
].
Remarks.
— This species is clearly referable to the genus
Onycocaridella
Bruce, 1981
by the obsolete inferior orbital angle, reduced blade of scaphocerite of antenna, being subequal to the basal segment of the antennular peduncle, pointed tips of the fingers of the first pereiopods, and small accessory tooth of the dactylus of the third pereiopod.
Distribution.
— The species is known only from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland
Australia
.