Marin I.N. 2023. Partial revision of the Indo-West Pacific alcyonarian-associated shrimp genus Propontonia Bruce, 1969 (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) with the description of a new species from the Line Islands // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.32. No.4: 409–418 [in English].
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS, Leninsky prosp., 33, Moscow, 119071 Russia. E-mail: coralliodecapoda@mail.ru
doi: 10.15298/arthsel.32.4.05
ABSTRACT. The Indo-West Pacific palaemonid shrimp genus Propontonia Bruce, 1969 (Decapoda: Palaemonidae), associated with the alcyonarian soft corals (Anthozoa: Octocorallia), is partially revised. Periclimenes kempi Bruce, 1969 is transferred to the genus, as well as a new species is described from the Line Islands. The diagnosis of the genus is modified and clarified, while the absence/presence of a well-developed exopodal flagellum of maxilliped III is considered only as a species-level morphological feature. The identification key to all known species of the genus Propontonia is presented.
KEY WORDS: Symbiosis; phylogeny; corals; Octocorallia; Alcyonaria; diversity; community; tropical; Indo-West Pacific.
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