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Additional Specimens and Range Extension of Brachycarpus Crosnieri Bruce, 1998 (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae)

Additional Specimens and Range Extension of Brachycarpus Crosnieri Bruce, 1998 (Decapoda,... NOTES AND NEWS ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS AND RANGE EXTENSION OF BRACHYCARPUS CROSNIERI BRUCE, 1998 (DECAPODA, CARIDEA, PALAEMONIDAE) BY JUNJI OKUNO 1 / , MASATSUNE TAKEDA 2 / and TOMOKI KASE 3 / 1 / Coastal Branch of Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, 123 Yoshio, Katsuura, Chiba 299-5242, Japan 2 / Department of Zoology, National Science Museum, Tokyo, 3-23-1 Hyakunincho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0073, Japan 3 / Department of Geology, National Science Museum, Tokyo, 3-23-1 Hyakunincho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0073, Japan In 1996, in the course of a cryptic fauna survey of Indo-West PaciŽ c submarine caves conducted by one of us (TK), a female palaemonid shrimp was collected from Efate Island, Vanuatu. Later, this specimen was identiŽ ed as Brachycarpus crosnieri Bruce, 1998, a recently described species based on a single ovigerous female from the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. Brachycarpus crosnieri is readily distinguished from other congeneric species by the considerably longer carpus of the second pereiopod (Bruce, 1998). The senior author captured a further female of B. crosnieri from a submarine cave at Hachijo-jima Island, Izu Islands, Japan. These specimens reveal a major extension of the species’ known distributional range to the north, and enable us to recognize some intraspeciŽ http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Crustaceana Brill

Additional Specimens and Range Extension of Brachycarpus Crosnieri Bruce, 1998 (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae)

Okuno, Junji; Takeda, Masatsune; Kase, Tomoki
Crustaceana , Volume 76 (9): 4 – Jan 1, 2003
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NOTES AND NEWS ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS AND RANGE EXTENSION OF BRACHYCARPUS CROSNIERI BRUCE, 1998 (DECAPODA, CARIDEA, PALAEMONIDAE) BY JUNJI OKUNO 1 / , MASATSUNE TAKEDA 2 / and TOMOKI KASE 3 / 1 / Coastal Branch of Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, 123 Yoshio, Katsuura, Chiba 299-5242, Japan 2 / Department of Zoology, National Science Museum, Tokyo, 3-23-1 Hyakunincho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0073, Japan 3 / Department of Geology, National Science Museum, Tokyo, 3-23-1 Hyakunincho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0073, Japan In 1996, in the course of a cryptic fauna survey of Indo-West PaciŽ c submarine caves conducted by one of us (TK), a female palaemonid shrimp was collected from Efate Island, Vanuatu. Later, this specimen was identiŽ ed as Brachycarpus crosnieri Bruce, 1998, a recently described species based on a single ovigerous female from the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. Brachycarpus crosnieri is readily distinguished from other congeneric species by the considerably longer carpus of the second pereiopod (Bruce, 1998). The senior author captured a further female of B. crosnieri from a submarine cave at Hachijo-jima Island, Izu Islands, Japan. These specimens reveal a major extension of the species’ known distributional range to the north, and enable us to recognize some intraspeciŽ

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