Spongiaxius Sakai and de Saint Laurent, 1989

Poore, Gary C. B. & Collins, David J., 2009, Australian Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 66 (2), pp. 221-287 : 277

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2009.66.20
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12208905
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scientific name	Spongiaxius Sakai and de Saint Laurent, 1989
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Spongiaxius Sakai and de Saint Laurent, 1989 View in CoL

Spongiaxius Sakai and de Saint Laurent, 1989: 41 View in CoL .— Sakai and Ohta, 2005: 88–89.

Sakaiocaris Kensley, 1989: 964 (objective synonym: same type species).

Remarks. The rostrum with its margin of erect spines, separated by a constriction from the carapace, serves to recognise species of Spongiaxius .

References

Kensley, B. 1989. New genera in the thalassinidean families Calocarididae and Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 102: 960 - 967.

Sakai, K., and de Saint Laurent, M. 1989. A check list of Axiidae (Decapoda, Crustacea, Thalassinidea, Anomula), with remarks and in addition descriptions of one new subfamily, eleven new genera and two new species. Naturalists, Publications of Tokushima Biological Laboratory, Shikoku University 3: 1 - 104.

Sakai, K., and Ohta, S. 2005. Some thalassinid collections by R / V Hakuhou-Maru and R / V Tansei-Maru , University of Tokyo, in the Sulu Sea, Philippines, and in Sagami Bay and Suruga Bay, Japan, including two new species, one new genus, and one new family (Decapoda, Thalassinidea). Crustaceana 78: 67 - 93.