New species of hippolytid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Hippolytidae) from a southwest Indian Ocean seamount.

A new species of the hippolytid genus Paralebbeus Bruce & Chace, 1986 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from the Coral Seamount, southwestern Indian Ocean.

The hippolytid genus Paralebbeus Bruce & Chace, 1986, is only known from two species, P. zotheculatus Bruce & Chace, 1986 (type species) and P. zygius Chace, 1997. Both are known from the western Pacific, though P zotheculatus was originally described from the Australian Northwest Shelf in the Indian Ocean. In this paper, a new species, P. mollis, is described and illustrated on the basis of a ...

A new species of the hippolytid shrimp genus Thor Kingsley, 1878 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Hainan Island, China.

A new species of the caridean family Hippolytidae, Thor hainanensis sp. nov., is described and illustrated based on specimens from Hainan Island, China. The carpus of the second pereopod is six-segmented; the mandible has only the incisor process and the molar process; the third segment of antennular peduncle has one subtriangular dorsal scale. Those morphological characters easily classify thi...

Notes on some Indo-Pacific Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae and Gnathophyllidae) particularly from India.

Although among the less conspicuous members of the tropical shallow reef fauna, the caridean shrimps are not less abundant. Much scope for further study on the marine carideans of Indian waters still exists and many species must certainly remain to be discovered. Although, the recent checklist on prawn fauna of Indian waters reports 285 species of caridean shrimps (including fresh water forms) ...

A new species of Munidopsis from a seamount of the Southwest Indian Ocean Ridge (Decapoda: Munidopsidae).

Wood and whale bone colonisation experiments were undertaken on the Southwest Indian Ocean Ridge, 18 November 2009. Later, 14 December 2011, squat lobsters were recovered from the submerged wood and assigned to Munidopsis sp. Further study indicated that the specimens belonged to the group of species having a rostrum without lateral spines, presence of two strong epigastric spines, unarmed abdo...

Density-dependent effect on reproductive behaviour of Lysmata amboinensis and L. boggessi (Decapoda: Caridea: Hippolytidae)