Spongiaxius brucei ( Sakai, 1986 )

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

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scientific name	Spongiaxius brucei ( Sakai, 1986 )
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Spongiaxius brucei ( Sakai, 1986) View in CoL

Axiopsis brucei Sakai, 1986: 12–20 View in CoL , figs. 1–6. Spongiaxius brucei View in CoL .— Sakai and de Saint Laurent, 1989:

44–45.— Davie, 2002: 454.— Sakai and Ohta, 2005: 89–90, fig.

11.—Poore, 2008: 168. Sakaiocaris brucei .— Kensley, 1989: 964–965.

Distribution. WA, slope of North West Shelf, Sulu Sea, 450–690 m depth.

Remarks. Spongiaxius brucei is a large species with erect spines on the five gastric carinae, the carinae themselves separated by a constriction from the elevated rostrum surrounded by about 20 erect spines. The massive dactylus of the major cheliped is also distinctive. Unlike most axiids from deep water, numerous specimens have been taken, including more than those already reported in NTM collections.

References

Davie, P. J. F. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). Vol. 19.3 A. In: Wells, A., and Houston, W. W. K. (eds), ZoologicalCatalogueofAustralia. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne. xii, 551 pp.

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. 1986. Axiopsis brucei sp. nov., a new sponge-inhabiting axiid (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea), from north-west Australia. The Beagle, Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3: 11 - 20.

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.