A revision of the genus Prionocrangon (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Crangonidae)
Author
Kim, Jung Nyun
Author
Chan, Tin-Yam
text
Journal of Natural History
2005
2005-04-18
39
19
1597
1625
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930400016788
journal article
10.1080/00222930400016788
1464-5262
5214903
Key to species of
Prionocrangon
1. Eyestalks drawn out to bluntly cylindrical or villiform extremities..... 2
– Eyestalks triangular.................. 5
2. Dactyli of fourth and fifth pereopods 0.70–0.74 times as long as propodi... 3
– Dactyli of fourth and fifth pereopods 0.32–0.42 times as long as propodi... 4
3. Rostrum relatively longer, extending to tip of branchiostegal spine and 0.20 times as long as carapace; posterior margin of posterolateral process of sixth abdominal somite rounded and with deep excavation....
P. curvicaulis
Yaldwyn, 1960
– Rostrum very short, extending only to tip of antennal spine and 0.07 times as long as carapace; posterior margin of posterolateral process of sixth abdominal somite truncate and without excavation..........
P. formosa
sp. nov.
4. Fourth abdominal somite with low median carina; posterior margin of telson rounded, armed with 5–12 long spines; palm of first pereopod 3.70–4.55 times as long as wide; females with endopods of pereopods lacking proximolateral lobe.................
P. dofleini
Balss, 1913
– Fourth abdominal somite without median carina; posterior margin of telson truncate, armed with two pairs of long spines; palm of first pereopod 4.95–5.25 times as long as wide; females with endopods of second to fifth pleopods with proximolateral lobes....
P. ommatosteres
Wood-Mason and Alcock, 1891
5. Carapace with four or five dorsal spines; posterior margin of telson rounded, armed with 10–13 long spines.........
P. paucispina
sp. nov.
– Carapace with six to eight dorsal spines; posterior margin of telson truncated, armed with two pairs of long spines.............. 6
6. Telson shorter than sixth abdominal somite and 0.44 times as long as carapace; posterior half of telson strongly convergent.....
P. pectinata
Faxon, 1896
– Telson longer than sixth abdominal somite and 0.64 times as long as carapace; posterior half of telson only slightly convergent.....
P. demani
sp. nov.