SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ZOOLOGY • NUMBER 543 ...
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ZOOLOGY • NUMBER 543 ...
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ZOOLOGY • NUMBER 543 ...
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<strong>SMITHSONIAN</strong> <strong>CONTRIBUTIONS</strong> <strong>TO</strong> <strong>ZOOLOGY</strong><br />
6. Telson usually with 2 pairs of posterior marginal spines .... *PALAEMONINAE<br />
Telson usually with 3 pairs of posterior marginal spines *PON<strong>TO</strong>NIINAE<br />
7. Third maxilliped with antepenultimate segment clearly articulated with and much<br />
wider than next proximal segment "HYMENOCERIDAE<br />
Third maxilliped with antepenultimate segment at least partially fused with and not<br />
much wider than next proximal segment GNATHOPHYLLIDAE<br />
*PALAEMONIDAE Rafinesque, 1815<br />
PALAEMONIA Rafinesque, 1815:98.<br />
PALAEMONIDAE.—Samoueile, 1819:96.<br />
DIAGNOSIS.—Carapace without complete longitudinal suture;<br />
telson usually with 2 or 3 pairs of spines on posterior<br />
margin; antennule with 2 completely separate flagella, 1 with<br />
accessory branch; mandible usually with incisor process; 1st<br />
maxilla with mesial coxal lobe not unusually large, mesial<br />
basal lobe not reduced; 2nd maxilla with 0, 1, or 2 endites; 1st<br />
maxilliped with exopodal lash; 2nd maxilliped with marginal<br />
setae on distal segment not especially stout or dense; 3rd<br />
maxilliped with antepenultimate segment neither articulated<br />
with nor much wider than next proximal segment; 2nd<br />
pereopod with dactyl usually not distinctly serrate on extensor<br />
margin; 2nd pleopod with appendix masculina in male.<br />
RANGE.—Cosmopolitan, freshwater and marine; littoral to<br />
1285 meters.<br />
Key to Indo-West Pacific Genera of Palaemoninae<br />
<strong>•</strong>PALAEMONINAE Rafinesque, 1815<br />
DIAGNOSIS.—Telson usually armed with 2 pairs of posterior<br />
spines (usually 3 pairs in Coutierella) and 2 or more submedian<br />
setae; 3rd maxilliped usually with 2 arthrobranchs.<br />
RANGE.—Cosmopolitan, freshwater and marine; subterranean,<br />
littoral, and pelagic to 170 meters.<br />
REMARKS.—The 11 palaemonine genera from the Indo-<br />
Pacific region recognized herein are incorporated in the<br />
following key.<br />
The remaining genera assigned to this subfamily are<br />
confined to fresh water in the Americas or western Africa and<br />
are included in the comprehensive key in Holthuis (1955:43),<br />
except two genera from subterranean fresh water in Mexico:<br />
Bithynops Holthuis, 1974a: 135, and Neopalaemon Hobbs,<br />
1973a:25, both of which may be referred to in Hobbs, Hobbs,<br />
and Daniel (1977:46, 52).<br />
1. Carapace with branchiostegal spine, sometimes arising posterior to margin ... 2<br />
Carapace without branchiostegal spine 9<br />
2. Elevated dentate crest at base of rostrum 3<br />
No elevated crest at base of rostrum 5<br />
3. Carapace with branchiostegal suture extending posteriorly from anterior margin at<br />
point dorsal to branchiostegal spine Exopalaemon<br />
Carapace without branchiostegal suture 4<br />
4. Branchiostegal spine arising from margin of carapace; 2 posterior pairs of<br />
pereopods with dactyl longer than combined length of propodus and carpus; 1st<br />
pleopod of male without appendix intema on endopod .... Nematopalaemon<br />
Branchiostegal spine arising posterior to margin of carapace; 2 posterior pairs of<br />
pereopods with dactyl shorter than propodus; 1st pleopod of male with appendix<br />
intema on endopod *Urocaridella<br />
5. Carapace with branchiostegal suture extending posteriorly from anterior margin at<br />
point dorsal to branchiostegal spine 6<br />
Carapace without branchiostegal suture 8<br />
6. Mandible normally with palp *Palaemon<br />
Mandible without palp 7<br />
7. Telson with 3 or more pairs of spines on posterior margin; 1st maxilla with distal<br />
endite broad, proximal endite rotated mesially; 2nd maxilla with basal endite<br />
deeply bilobate; 1st maxilliped with basal endite mesially ridged, separated from<br />
palp by U-shaped notch, coxal endite large, setose<br />
Coutierella Sollaud, 1914:318<br />
(Vietnam; Hong Kong)