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The diversity of pontoniine shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the Lizard Island area, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2011

Ivan Marin  and
M. Julian Caley
Ivan Marin*
Affiliation:
A.N. Severtzov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS (IPEE RAS), 119071 Leninsky Prospekt, 33, Moscow, Russia
M. Julian Caley
Affiliation:
Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB #3, Townsville MC, Queensland, 4810, Australia
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: I. Marin, A.N. Severtzov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS (IPEE RAS), 119071 Leninsky Prospekt, 33, Moscow, Russia email: coralliodecapoda@mail.ru
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Abstract

The species diversity of pontoniine shrimps (Decapoda: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae) previously recorded in the vicinity of Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia, were compared with new records obtained during a recent three-week expedition as part of the CReefs Project, a field project of the Census of Marine Life. Few previous investigations at this location had discovered 18 species of pontoniine shrimps distributed among 12 genera. In contrast, relatively little effort, approximately 35 hours sampling (40 dives), was required to increase this list more than twice adding 20 new species records from 15 pontoniine genera for the locality including 6 species and 1 genus reported from Australian waters for the first time and 1 genus and 4 species new to science. This large increase in species was enumerated with little additional effort and the relatively low total species diversity of these shrimps known from this location compared to species known from the southern GBR (e.g. Heron Island), where overall diversity is expected to be less, strongly indicates that the enumeration of these shrimps from the northern GBR is far from complete.

Keywords

CrustaceaDecapodaPalaemonidaePontoniinaebiodiversityAustraliaGreat Barrier Reef areaLizard Islandcoral reefs
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Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 4 , December 2011 , e39
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2011

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