Indo-West Pacific and Australian species of Eucalliacidae with descriptions of four new species (Crustacea: Axiidea)
Author
Poore, Gary
text
Memoirs of Museum Victoria
2021
80
1
41
http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2021.80.01
journal article
10.24199/j.mmv.2021.80.01
1447-2554
12208927
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EA21667A-77A5-411D-9C1A-23ECFFF3D505
Andamancalliax
Sakai, 2011
Andamancalliax
Sakai, 2011: 494–495
.—
Sakai, 2018: 738
.—
Poore et al., 2019: 126
.
Remarks
. The genus differs from other eucalliacids in the prominent sharp rostrum and the unequal dissimilar chelipeds, the minor one having elongate fingers. The crista dentata of the
type
species was not illustrated, but in the new species described here, it comprises few sharp long spines in lieu of a row of similar even teeth seen in other genera.
Sakai (2011
,
2018
) stated that the maxilliped 3 lacks an exopod but in the newly discovered female of what appears to be a different species, a small exopod is present. The genus was diagnosed by
Sakai (2011)
as having the male pleopod 1 biarticulate, but this was changed by
Sakai (2018)
to pleopod 1 absent. I believe it is biarticulate, as in other eucalliacids, for the reasons given under remarks on the
type
species.