Abstract
Schnabel, Kou & Xu reported three new species of spongicolid shrimp from New Zealand. The present note, with ZooBank registrations, serve to validate the names Spongicoloides clarki, S. sonne and Spongiocaris antipodes by fulfilling Code conditions for nomenclatural availability. As such, the date and authorship of the species names take the date of publication of this note. Specimens are deposited at the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Wellington (NIWA) and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington (NMNZ).
Highlights
Carapace with faint hepatic groove; surface with only scattered small postrostral, hepatic and anterolateral spines, cervical groove not lined with distinct spines; anterior margins without antennal spine, few small anterolateral spines
Third pereiopod nearly entirely glabrous and unarmed; fixed finger unarmed on distoventral margin; ischium with distodorsal spine and row of small ventral spines; coxa mesially unarmed
Third pereiopod nearly entirely glabrous and smooth; fixed finger unarmed on distoventral margin; palm with few to many minute granules scattered along distoventral portion; ischium with distinct distodorsal spine, with row of ventral spines; coxa mesially granulate
Summary
Spongicoloides clarki Schnabel, Kou & Xu 2021 [1]: 343, figs. Rostrum reaching distal margin of basal article of antennular peduncle; with nine small dorsal teeth, laterally unarmed. Second maxilliped with single arthrobranch, well-developed podobranch, lacking epipod. Third pereiopod nearly entirely glabrous and unarmed; fixed finger unarmed on distoventral margin; ischium with distodorsal spine and row of small ventral spines; coxa mesially unarmed.
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