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Palaemon serrifer (Stimpson, 1860)
Leander serrifer Stimpson, 1860:41 (type localities: Hong Kong and O Shima; littoral).
Leander Fagei Yu. 1930:555, 561, fig. 2 [type locality: Shandong Peninsula].
Leander serrifer var. longidactylus Yu, 1930:555, 570, fig. 4B′C' [type localities: “Yangmatoa,” Peitaiho, “Tangkou,” and Yent'ai (Chefoo), China].
Palaemon (Palaemon) serrifer.—Holthuis, 1950a:83, fig. 18.
DIAGNOSIS.—Rostrum often nearly horizontal, sometimes ascending in anterior , often tapering directly to acute apex, rostral formula: 2–3 + 7–13/3–5; basal antennular segment with distolateral spine barely, if at all, overreaching adjacent convex distal margin of segment; dorsal antennular flagellum with free part of shorter branch 3 times as long as fused part; 1st pereopod with carpus about l times as long as chela; 1st pleopod of male without appendix arising from margin of endopod; maximum postorbital carapace length probably about 10 mm.
RANGE.—India. Burma, Thailand, Taiwan, China, Korea, Vladivostok, and Japan and Indonesia and northern Australia; littoral marine waters.
*Urocaridella Borradaile, 1915
Urocaridella Borradaile, 1915:207 [type species, by monotypy: Urocaridella gracilis Borradaile, 1915:210 (= Leander urocaridella Holthuis. 1950a:6, 28); gender feminine].
DIAGNOSIS.—Rostrum armed with 2 strong basal teeth elevated into semblance of crest; carapace with strong median tooth at about mid-length of dorsal surface, with submarginal branchiostegal spine, without hepatic spine or branchiostegal suture; mandible with or without palp; 3 posterior pairs of pereopods with dactyl simple, not biunguiculate, shorter than propodus; endopod of male 1st pleopod with marginal appendix.
RANGE.—Maldive Islands, India, Andaman Islands, Mergui Archipelago, Indonesia, Japan, Palau Islands; sublittoral to 130 meters.
- bibliographic citation
- Chace, Fenner Albert, Jr. and Bruce, A. J. 1993. "The caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition 1907-1910, Part 6: Superfamily Palaemonoidea." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-152. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.543