Acanthaxius

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]

Acanthaxius
Acanthaxius hirsutimanus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Axiidae
Genus: Acanthaxius
Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989
Type species
Acanthaxius pilocheirus
Sakai, 1987 [1]

Species

The genus Acanthaxius includes the following species:[5]

  • Acanthaxius formosa Kensley & Chan, 1998
  • Acanthaxius garawa Poore & Collins, 2009
  • Acanthaxius gathaagudu Poore & Collins, 2009
  • Acanthaxius grandis Kensley & Chan, 1998
  • Acanthaxius kashimaensis Sakai, 2017
  • Acanthaxius miyazakiensis (Yokoya, 1933)
  • Acanthaxius ningaloo Poore & Collins, 2009
  • Acanthaxius pilocheirus (Sakai, 1987)
  • Acanthaxius polyacanthus (Miyake & Sakai, 1967)
  • Acanthaxius sapulo Poore, 2020

Thee following species were formerly included in Acanthaxius but have been transferred to other genera:[5]

  • Amakusaxius amakusanus (Miyake & Sakai, 1967)
  • Guyanacaris caespitosa (Squires, 1979)
  • Guyanacaris hirsutimanus (Boesch & Smalley, 1972)
  • Guyanacaris polychaetes Sakai, 1994
  • Guyanacaris spinosissimus (Rathbun, 1906)
  • Pillsburyaxius clevai (Ngoc-Ho, 2006)
  • Pillsburyaxius gadaletae (Ngoc-Ho, 2006)
  • Pillsburyaxius kirkmilleri (Kensley, 1996)

Three species of Acanthaxius have been found off the Solomon Islands.[6]

References
  1. Gary Poore (2010). "Acanthaxius Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989". WoRMS. 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. Gary C. B. Poore & David B. Collins (2009). "Australian Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea)" (PDF). Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 66 (2): 221–287. doi:10.24199/j.mmv.2009.66.20.
  5. WoRMS. "Acanthaxius Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  6. 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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1240.1.2.


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