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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)

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