Acanthaxius
Appearance
Acanthaxius | |
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Acanthaxius hirsutimanus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | Axiidae |
Genus: | Acanthaxius Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989 |
Type species | |
Acanthaxius pilocheirus Sakai, 1987 [1]
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Acanthaxius is a genus of mud lobster native to the Indo-Pacific oceans.[2] It has a slender rostrum which is longer than the eyestalks, is spinose and has seven spines[3] and has a depth range of 228–438 metres (748–1,437 ft).[4]
Species
The genus Acanthaxius includes the following species:[5]
- Acanthaxius formosa Kensley & Chan, 1998
- Acanthaxius garawa Poore & Collins, 2009
- Acanthaxius gathaagudu Poore & Collins, 2009
- Acanthaxius grandis Kensley & Chan, 1998
- Acanthaxius kashimaensis Sakai, 2017
- Acanthaxius miyazakiensis (Yokoya, 1933)
- Acanthaxius ningaloo Poore & Collins, 2009
- Acanthaxius pilocheirus (Sakai, 1987)
- Acanthaxius polyacanthus (Miyake & Sakai, 1967)
- Acanthaxius sapulo Poore, 2020
Thee following species were formerly included in Acanthaxius but have been transferred to other genera:[5]
- Amakusaxius amakusanus (Miyake & Sakai, 1967)
- Guyanacaris caespitosa (Squires, 1979)
- Guyanacaris hirsutimanus (Boesch & Smalley, 1972)
- Guyanacaris polychaetes Sakai, 1994
- Guyanacaris spinosissimus (Rathbun, 1906)
- Pillsburyaxius clevai (Ngoc-Ho, 2006)
- Pillsburyaxius gadaletae (Ngoc-Ho, 2006)
- Pillsburyaxius kirkmilleri (Kensley, 1996)
Three species of Acanthaxius have been found off the Solomon Islands.[6]
References
- ^ Gary Poore (2010). "Acanthaxius Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
- ^ Zoological Catalogue of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. 1998. p. 450. ISBN 978-0-643-06791-2. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
- ^ Brian Kensley (1996). "A new species of the axiid shrimp genus Acanthaxius from the Caribbean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 109 (1): 70–74.
- ^ Gary C. B. Poore & David B. Collins (2009). "Australian Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea)" (PDF). Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 66 (2): 221–287. doi:10.24199/j.mmv.2009.66.20.[dead link ]
- ^ a b WoRMS. "Acanthaxius Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ^ Nguyen Ngoc-Ho (2006). "Three species of Acanthaxius Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989, including two new to science, from the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia (Crustacea, Thalassinidea, Axiidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1240: 57–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1240.1.2.