A new stygobiont species of Halocaridinides Fujino & Shokita, 1975 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea, Atyidae) from caves on Socotra Island (Yemen), with notes on the genus
Author
Fransen, Charles H. J. M.
Author
Damme, K. Van
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-07-02
4442
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journal article
29759
10.11646/zootaxa.4442.2.3
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Genus
Halocaridinides
Fujino & Shokita, 1975
Halocaridinides
Fujino & Shokita, 1975
: 106
.
Palauatya
Hart, 1980
: 481
.
Amended definition.
Rostrum unarmed. Supraorbital, antennal and pterygostomian spines absent. Telson broad, with two pairs of dorsal spines. Eyes reduced. Carpus of first two pereiopods excavated anteriorly. Palm of chelipeds distinct. Exopods absent from all pereiopods. Epipods on first three pereiopods. Pleurobranchs on first four pereiopods. First male pleopod without appendix interna. Uropodal exopod ending in a tooth. Diaeresis with one to several movable spines.
Type species
.
Halocaridina
(
Halocaridinides
)
trigonophthalma
Fujino & Shokita, 1975
.
Remarks
. As there is no concensus on the delimitation of subfamilies within the
Atyidae
, subdivision has been abandoned (
De Grave
et al.
2009
,
De Grave & Fransen 2011
). Von
Rintelen
et al
. (2012)
did not recover these subfamilies in their phylogeny of atyid genera. Instead of using subfamilies they recognized five groups of genera based on their phylogenetic reconstruction. The anchialine
Typhlatya
group comprises
Halocaridinides
,
Halocaridina
Holthuis, 1963
,
Typhlatya
Creaser, 1936
,
Stygiocaris
Holthuis, 1960
and
Antecaridina
Edmondson, 1954
.