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A new crangonid shrimp, Pontocheras arafurae gen. et sp.n., from the Arafura Sea
Author(s) -
BRUCE ALEXANDER J.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
zoologica scripta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.204
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1463-6409
pISSN - 0300-3256
DOI - 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1988.tb00096.x
Subject(s) - shrimp , biology , genus , zoology , decapoda , crustacean , ecology
A new genus of crangonid shrimp from the Arafura Sea is described and illustrated. Pontocheras amfurae sp.n. occurs in shallow silty waters off northern Australia. The new genus is closely related to the genus Pontocaris Bate, 1888, hut it is remarkable in the modifications of the dactyls of the fifth pereiopods, a mechanism attaching the branchiostogite to the thoracic sternites and the presence of a probable stridulating mechanism on the carpus of the third pereiopod.