Acanthaxius polychaetes Sakai, 1994

Poore, Gary C. B. & Collins, David J., 2009, Australian Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 66 (2), pp. 221-287 : 237

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2009.66.20
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12208851
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scientific name	Acanthaxius polychaetes Sakai, 1994
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Acanthaxius polychaetes Sakai, 1994 View in CoL

Acanthaxius polychaetes Sakai, 1994: 193–198 View in CoL , figs.

11–13.— Davie, 2002: 450.

Distribution. Qld, continental slope, 260 m depth.

Remarks. Acanthaxius polychaetes is remarkable for the absence of spines on the upper margins of the carpus-dactylus and abundance of long setae on the chelipeds obscuring any ornamentation. Like American species of this genus and unlike the Indo-West Pacific species, the male possesses a pleopod 1. The distal spine on article 2 of the antenna is, however, characteristically anteromesially directed.

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.

Sakai, K. 1994. Eleven species of Australian Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea) with descriptions of one new genus and five new species. The Beagle, Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 11: 175 - 202.