Dactylonia Fransen, 2002

Bruce, A. J., 2006, Pontoniine shrimps (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the island of Socotra, with descriptions of new species of Dactylonia Fransen, 2002 and Periclimenoides Bruce, 1990, Zootaxa 1137, pp. 1-36 : 13

Key to the Indo­West Pacific Species of Dactylonia Fransen, 2002

(modified from Fransen, 2002)

1. Paragnath with one median oblong carina; rostrum exceeding proximal border of antennal peduncle; flexor margin of dactyli of ambulatory pereiopods with row of distally denticulate processes............................................................................................. 2

­ Paragnath with two submedian carinae; rostrum not exceeding proximal border of antennal peduncle; flexor margin of dactyli of ambulatory pereiopods with row of blunt tubercles ..................................................... D. medipacifica* (Edmondson, 1935)

2. Flexor margin of dactyli of ambulatory pereiopods with 4–6 processes; fingers of minor second chela with long setae............................................................................... 3

­ Flexor margin of dactyli of ambulatory pereiopods with 7–14 processes; fingers of minor second chela with short setae.............................................................................. 4