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A new species, Callianassa poorei sp. nov. (Decapoda: Crustacea: Callianassidae) from Tasmania
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 April 2001
Abstract
As part of my ongoing studies of the Callianassidae, Dr G. Poore of the Museum of Victoria, Australia, sent me four small specimens from Tasmania. These specimens, which include two ovigerous females, are closely allied to Callianassa lewtonae from the northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. They differ from that species because the merus of the chelipeds bears a triangular ventral lobe in the larger cheliped and a sharp ventral spine in the smaller cheliped; and the antennular peduncle is much longer than the antennal peduncle. Only Callianassa ceramica, C. arenosa, and C. australiensis have been previously recorded from Tasmanian waters.
Abbreviations used are: MV, Museum of Victoria, Australia; CL, carapace length; TL, whole length of the specimen from the tip of rostrum to the end of telson; A1, antennule; A2, antenna; P, pereiopod; Plp, pleopod.
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- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 79 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 373 - 374
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- © 1999 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom