Acanthaxius

Acanthaxius
Acanthaxius hirsutimanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Axiidae
Genus: Acanthaxius
Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989
Type species
Acanthaxius pilocheirus
Sakai, 1987 [1]

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] It includes the following species:[1][4]

  • Acanthaxius amakusana (Miyake & Sakai, 1967)
  • Acanthaxius caespitosa (Squires, 1979)
  • Acanthaxius clevae Ngoc-Ho, 2006
  • Acanthaxius formosa Kensley & Chan, 1998
  • Acanthaxius gadaletae Ngoc-Ho, 2006
  • Acanthaxius garawa Poore & Collins, 2009
  • Acanthaxius gathaagudu Poore & Collins, 2009
  • Acanthaxius grandis Kensley & Chan, 1998
  • Acanthaxius hirsutimanus (Boesch & Smalley, 1972)
  • Acanthaxius kirkmilleri Kensley, 1996
  • Acanthaxius miyazakiensis (Yokoya, 1933)
  • Acanthaxius ningaloo Poore & Collins, 2009
  • Acanthaxius pilocheirus (Sakai, 1987)
  • Acanthaxius polyacanthus (Miyake & Sakai, 1967)
  • Acanthaxius polychaetes Sakai, 1994
  • Acanthaxius spinosissimus (Rathbun, 1906)

Three species of Acanthaxius have been found off the Solomon Islands.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Gary Poore (2010). "Acanthaxius Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  2. ↑ Zoological Catalogue of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. 1998. p. 450. ISBN 978-0-643-06791-2. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. 1 2 Gary C. B. Poore & David B. Collins (2009). "Australian Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea)" (PDF). Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 66: 221–287.
  5. ↑ 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.


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