Axius werribee ( Poore and Griffin, 1979 )

Poore, Gary C. B. & Collins, David J., 2009, Australian Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 66 (2), pp. 221-287 : 244

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Axius werribee ( Poore and Griffin, 1979)

Figure 14b View Figure 14

Axiopsis (Axiopsis) werribee Poore and Griffin, 1979: 232–235 View in CoL , figs. 5, 6.— Gowlett-Holmes, 2008: 217 (colour photo).

Calocarides werribee .— Sakai and de Saint Laurent, 1989: 84.— Sakai, 1994: 175, 201.— Davie, 2002: 452.

Axiopsis werribee Poore, 2004: 174 View in CoL , figs. 45c, d, 46b, pl. 11h.

Distribution. Tas., Vic. SA, 2–25 m depth.

Remarks. Axius werribee has five gastric carinae unornamented except for two teeth on the median gastric carina at the base of the rostrum. The triangular rostrum has five pairs of lateral teeth from which the supraocular tooth is not differentiated. Poore and Griffin (1979) misinterpreted the pleopods. Reexamination of type material in Museum Victoria has revealed that the male pleopod is present, two-articled, with the second article triangular and bearing a thumb-like appendix interna ( Poore and Griffin, 1979: fig. 6h). The male pleopod 2 has both appendices interna and masculina. These characters together place the species clearly in Axius rather than Axiopsis or Calocarides . Both have spinose lateral carinae and lack pleurobranchs. The presence of this species in SA relies on Gowlett-Holmes (2008).

Of the three species of Axius , A. werribee most closely resembles A. armatus redescribed by Kensley (2001). These two species alone share two teeth on the median gastric carina and two pairs of spines dorsally on the telson and lack a pleurobranch over pereopod 5. The chelipeds of A. werribee lack a meral spine (present in A. armatus ) and are more compact. The male pleopod 1 (fig. 14b) is more complex than in A. stirhynchus (fig. 14a; see too Ngoc-Ho, 2003: fig. 2E); that of A. armatus is unknown and of A. serratus slender and setose ( Kensley, 2001).

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.

Gowlett-Holmes, K. 2008. A field guide to the marine invertebrates of South Australia. Notomares: Sandy Bay. 333 pp.

Kensley, B. 2001. Two sympatric species of Axius from the north-west Atlantic (Decapoda, Thalassinidea, Axiidae). Crustaceana 74: 951 - 962.

Ngoc-Ho, N. 2003. European and Mediterranean Thalassinidea (Crustacea, Decapoda). Zoosystema 25: 439 - 555.

Poore, G. C. B., and Griffin, D. J. G. 1979. The Thalassinidea (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 32: 217 - 321.

Poore, G. C. B. 2004. Marine decapod Crustacea of southern Australia. A guide to identification (with chapter on Stomatopoda by Shane Ahyong). CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne. 574 pp.

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. 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.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
Family	Axiidae
Genus	Axius