Establishment of a new shrimp family Chlorotocellidae for four genera previously assigned to Pandalidae (Decapoda, Caridea, Pandaloidea)

A new caridean shrimp family, Chlorotocellidae, is established to accommodate four genera previously assigned to Pandalidae, viz., Chlorotocella Balss, 1914 (type genus), Chlorocurtis Kemp, 1925, Anachlorocurtis Hayashi, 1975, and Miropandalus Bruce, 1983, which represents the sist...

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Main Authors: Tomoyuki Komai, Tin-Yam Chan, Sammy De Grave
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2019-07-01
Series:Zoosystematics and Evolution
Online Access:https://zse.pensoft.net/article/35999/download/pdf/
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Summary:A new caridean shrimp family, Chlorotocellidae, is established to accommodate four genera previously assigned to Pandalidae, viz., Chlorotocella Balss, 1914 (type genus), Chlorocurtis Kemp, 1925, Anachlorocurtis Hayashi, 1975, and Miropandalus Bruce, 1983, which represents the sister clade to a clade consisting of all other pandalid genera (including the two genera previously assigned to Thalassocarididae) in a recent comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of Pandaloidea. Diagnoses are provided for the new family and its constituent genera, and a comparison with Pandalidae is provided, for which a new diagnosis is given.
ISSN:1435-1935
1860-0743