• DOI:10.18195/ISSN.0313-122X.73.2007.131-159
• Corpus ID: 132643266

Upogebiidae (Decapoda: Thalassinidea) mostly from the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia

@article{NgocHo2007UpogebiidaeT,
  title={Upogebiidae (Decapoda: Thalassinidea) mostly from the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia},
  author={Nguyen Ngoc-Ho},
  journal={Records of the western Australian Museum},
  year={2007},
  volume={73},
  pages={131}
}

• N. Ngoc-Ho
• Published 2007
• Biology
• Records of the western Australian Museum

Nine species of Upogebiidae from the Dampier Archipelago, \Nestern Australia, one of which is new to science, arc studied in this work: Gebiacantha dampieri sp. nov., G. priochela Sakai, 1993, Upogebia austraJjensis de Man, 1927, U. balmaorum Ngoc-Ho, 1990, U. barbata (Strahl, 18(2), U. carinicauda (Stimpson, 18(0), U. darwinii (Miers, 1884), U. {allax de Man, 1905, and U. holthuisi Sakai, 1982. They arc compared with close relatives from the lndo-Pacific that include: U. bowerbankii (Miers, 1884), U. tractabilis (Hale, 1941), U. ancvlodactyla (de Man, 19(5), U. intermedia (de Man, 1888), resurrected as a v,llid species, and U. saintlaurentae sp. novo An identification key is presented. INTRODUCTION Nine species of Upogebiidae, one of which is new to science, recently collected from the Dampier Archipelago are reported in this work. The species represented are: Gebiacantha dampieri sp. nov., G. priochela Sakai, 1993, Upogebia australiensis de Man, 1927, U. balmaorum Ngoc-Ho, 1990, U. barbata (Strahl, 1862), U. carinicauda (Stimpson, 1860), U. darwinii (Miers, 1884), U. fal/ax de Man, 1905, and U. holthuisi Sakai, 1982. Three of these, i.e. U. balmaorum, U. holthuisi, U. fallax, nevertheless, include only a single specimen each and the identification of the first two is provisional. Except for the new taxon, all species are previously known from the Indo-Pacific, but variations exist in the Dampier fauna. The Dampier material is described, illustrated and compared with close relatives that include: U. bowerbankii iers, ] 884), U. tractabiIis (l1ale, 1941), U. ancylodactyla (de Man, 1905), U. intermedia (de Man, 1888), resurrected as a valid species, and U. saintlaurentae sp. novo The opportunity has been taken to study these species and include them in a kev. MATERIALS AND METHODS The material studied belongs to the collections of the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (NMlIN), the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne (NMV), the Western Australian Museum, Perth (WAM), and the Zoologisch Museum, Amsterdam (ZMA). The measurenwnts given in the description are: carapace ), given for all mens, measured from the tip of the rostrum to the posterior border of the carapace; total length. (tl), given for types or figured specimens, measured from the tip of the rostrum to the posterior border of the telson. Abbreviations are as follows: juv. for juvenile, juvs for juveniles, ovig. for ovigerous Figured specimens and appendages were stained with a weak solution of chlorazol black. If not otherwise stated, the anterior part of the carapace is figured in dorsal and lateral view respectively, the telson and uropods are figured in dorsal view and appendages in lateral view. Infraorder THALASSINIDEA Latreille, 1831 Superfamily Callianassoidea Dana, 1852 Family Upogebiidae Borradaile, 1903 Remarks Morphological characters of the rostrum, carapace, appendages, the first pereopods, and especially the telson and uropods, are usually considered in the identification of upogebiid species. 'The shape of the telson in the literature, however, especially its length /width ratio, could be inaccurate if the segment is not laid flat for drawing. In the present work, characters of the second pereopod, its propodus and dactylus, are also used although they do not vary specifically, which means that many species may have the same pereopod 2 morphology. All known Gebiacantha species, for example, have a similar pereopod 2 with an approximately rectangular propodus and a slender DOI: 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.73.2007.131-159