A new deep-water palaemonid shrimp genus and species from the French Antilles, with a new record of Periclimenes milleri Bruce, 1986 (Decapoda: Caridea)
Anker, A.; Corbari, L. (2020). A new deep-water palaemonid shrimp genus and species from the French Antilles, with a new record of Periclimenes milleri Bruce, 1986 (Decapoda: Caridea). Zootaxa 4834(3): 407-424. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4834.3.4 In: Zootaxa. Magnolia Press: Auckland. ISSN 1175-5326; e-ISSN 1175-5334, more |  |
| Keywords | Crustacea [WoRMS]; Palaemonidae Rafinesque, 1815 [WoRMS]; Periclimenes milleri Bruce, 1986 [WoRMS]
Marine/Coastal | | Author keywords | Crustacea; Palaemonidae; shrimp; new genus; new species; new record; marine biodiversity; deep-water; west Atlantic; Lesser Antilles |
| Authors | | Top | - Anker, A.
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| Abstract | A new genus and species in the caridean shrimp family Palaemonidae is described based on three type specimens collected at a depth range of 208–385 m off Guadeloupe, French Antilles. Zoukaris festivus gen. et sp. nov. shares many characters with several western Atlantic deep-water species currently assigned to Periclimenes Costa, 1844, as well as with the monotypic western Atlantic genus Diapontonia Bruce, 1986 and the Indo-West Pacific genus Echinopericlimenes Marin & Chan, 2014. Zoukaris gen. nov. can be separated from all of them by a unique combination of morphological features, especially the configuration of the dactylus of the ambulatory pereiopods. In addition, Periclimenes milleri Bruce, 1986 is recorded from the French Antilles based on a single specimen, also from Guadeloupe; its colour pattern is illustrated for the first time. |
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