Onycocaris spinosa Fujino & Miyake, 1969

Bruce, A. J., 2010, More pontoniine shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the CReefs 2009 Heron Island expedition, Zootaxa 2604 (1), pp. 20-36 : 20-21

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2541.1.3
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5309779
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scientific name	Onycocaris spinosa Fujino & Miyake, 1969
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Onycocaris spinosa Fujino & Miyake, 1969 View in CoL

Onycocaris spinosa Fujino & Miyake, 1969: 429–435 View in CoL , figs. 13–15. — Bruce, 1985: 9–10, fig. 7. — Bruce,1990: 11. — Davie, 2002: 316.

Material examined. 1 ♂, 1 ov. ♀, Heron Island reef, north-eastern side, stn HI09–064C, 23.42996°S 151.95050°E, 4–5m, 20 November 2009, coll. N.L. Bruce & K. Schnabel, QM W 31913 GoogleMaps . 1 ♀,. Heron Island reef, north-eastern side, stn HI09–076C, 23°25.990’S 151°55.601’E, 10m, 22 November 2009, dead coral heads, coll. N. Bruce & K. Schnabel, QM W31920 GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Rostrum very short, unarmed, second pereiopod merus with ventral margin with several small stout acute teeth, ischium with strong acute distoventral tooth, ventral margin with several small stout acute teeth; ambulatory dactyl corpus with large bicuspid distoventral tooth, cusps acute, ventral margin with several small acute denticles.

Host. Not recorded.

Distribution. Previously reported from Heron Island by Bruce (1969). Otherwise known only from the Ryukyu Islands ( Fujino & Miyake, 1969; Bruce, 1985).

Remarks. The pair of specimens are in good condition, intact, the single specimen is badly damaged, but with both second pereiopods. The specimens were collected from dead coral heads, presumably from associated encrusting sponges, and were found with numerous Saron , porcellanids,? Microprosthema sp and other species.