Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia a Guide to Identification
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Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia A Guide to Identification With chapter on Stomatopoda by Shane Ahyong Gary C. B. Poore This page intentionally left blank Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia A Guide to Identification © Museum Victoria 2004 All rights reserved. Except under the conditions described in the Australian Copyright Act 1968 and subsequent amendments, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, duplicating or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Contact CSIRO PUBLISHING for all permission requests. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Poore, Gary C. B. Marine decapod Crustacea: a guide to identification. Includes index. ISBN 0 643 06906 2 (hardback). ISBN 0 643 09212 9 (netLibrary eBook). 1. Decapoda (Crustacea) – Australia, Southern – Identification. I. Title 595.380994 Available from CSIRO PUBLISHING 150 Oxford Street (PO Box 1139) Collingwood VIC 3066 Australia Telephone: +61 3 9662 7666 Local call: 1300 788 000 (Australia only) Fax: +61 3 9662 7555 Email: [email protected] Web site: www.publish.csiro.au Cover images, clockwise from top: Stenopus hispidus (photographer: Rudie H. Kuiter); Enoplometopus occidentalis (photographer: Rudie H. Kuiter); Munida gregaria (photographer: Rudie H. Kuiter); Paguristes frontalis (photographer: Rudie H. Kuiter); Bellidilia undecimspinosa (photographer: Michael Marmach); Actaea peronii (photographer: Karen Gowlett-Holmes); Rhynchocinetes australis (photographer: Michael Marmach); Galathea australiensis (photographer: Michael Marmach); Gnathophyllum taylori (photographer: Rudie H. Kuiter). Set in Minion 9.5 pt Cover and text design by James Kelly Typeset by J & M Typesetting Printed in Australia by BPA Print Group TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements. ix 1. Introduction . 1 What is a crustacean?. 1 Scope of this work . 2 Crustaceans of special interest . 5 History and resources . 5 Environment, ecology and biogeography . 7 Structure of this book, and some advice!. 9 2. Systematics . 13 Classification of the Decapoda . 16 Key to suborders and infraorders of Decapoda and similar Crustacea. 16 3. Dendrobranchiata – prawns and midwater shrimps . 23 Penaeoidea . 24 Aristaeidae. 24 Benthesicymidae. 27 Penaeidae. 31 Box: Australian prawns . 40 Box: Southern Australian prawn fisheries . 41 Sicyoniidae . 41 Solenoceridae . 43 Sergestoidea . 45 Luciferidae. 45 Sergestidae. 46 4. Caridea – shrimps . 53 Box: Simple key to common shallow-water caridean families . 58 Pasiphaeoidea . 58 Pasiphaeidae . 58 Oplophoroidea . 63 Oplophoridae . 63 Atyoidea . 69 Atyidae . 69 Bresilioidea . 70 Bresiliidae . 70 Nematocarcinoidea . 73 Nematocarcinidae . 73 Rhynchocinetidae . 75 Stylodactyloidea . 78 Stylodactylidae . 78 v Table of contents Campylonotoidea. 80 Campylonotidae . 80 Palaemonoidea . 81 Gnathophyllidae . 81 Palaemonidae . 84 Alpheoidea . 98 Alpheidae . 98 Hippolytidae . 118 Ogyrididae . 126 Processoidea . 128 Processidae . 128 Pandaloidea . 129 Pandalidae . 129 Physetocaridoidea . 135 Physetocarididae . 135 Crangonoidea. 136 Crangonidae . ..