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1322EE0FFFA2FFC3C99AFA67FAD4FC96.text	1322EE0FFFA2FFC3C99AFA67FAD4FC96.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Micheleidae Sakai 1992	<div><p>Micheleidae Sakai, 1992</p> <p>Micheleinae Sakai, 1992: 18.</p> <p>Meticonaxiinae Sakai, 1992: 19.</p> <p>Micheleidae.— Poore, 1994: 99.— Poore, 1997: 354–357.— Poore, 2004: 176.—Poore, 2008: 174.— Sakai, 2011: 311.— Dworschak et al., 2012: 190.—Sakai, 2014: 611 (key).</p> <p>Meticonaxiidae.— Sakai, 2011: 297–301.— Sakai and Türkay, 2014: 161.—Sakai, 2014: 611 (key) Syn. nov.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Cephalothorax, rostrum, pleon, telson and uropod unarmed. Rostrum obsolete or a flat triangular plate with sublateral carinae extending almost to cervical groove. Linea thalassinica absent. Posterior margin of carapace curved medially, with lateral lobes interacting with pleomere 1. Thoracic sternite 7 broad, flattened posteriorly, narrow anteriorly. Setal-rows present usually on anterolateral carapace, on lateral face of propodi of pereopods 2–4, and on pleomeres 1 and 6 and sometimes others. Eyestalks cylindrical, tapering; sometimes without pigmented eyes. Antenna with articulating scaphocerite. Maxilla scaphognathite with 1 or 2 long setae on posterior lobe extending into branchial chamber. Maxilliped 3 pediform. Pereopod 1 (cheliped) merus lower margin straight, sometimes with spine. Pereopod 2 chelate. Pereopod 3 propodus ovate or subrectangular; pereopods 3 and 4 propodi with or without distal spiniform seta on lower margin (facial spiniform setae in Michelea). Male pleopod 1 with triangular second article, appendix interna represented by hooks. Pleopods 2–5 similar, with elongate rami, each with elongate appendix interna, with or without marginal plates. Uropod endopod ovate; exopod without dorsal plate.</p> <p>Remarks. The family contains four genera of which Marcusiaxius Rodrigues and de Carvalho, 1972 has not been reported from Australia. The genus and its type species M. lemoscastroi were validly published by Rodrigues and Carvalho (1972) and redescribed by Carvalho and Rodrigues (1973) both in another journal later. Sakai (2011) erroneously maintained without explanation that the latter were first authors. The other genera are discussed below.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1322EE0FFFA2FFC3C99AFA67FAD4FC96	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Poore And D, Gary C. B.	Poore And D, Gary C. B. (2015): Micheleidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea): new family, generic and species synonymies, three new Australian species, and new records. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 73: 95-105
1322EE0FFFA1FFC0C985FF31FDCAF961.text	1322EE0FFFA1FFC0C985FF31FDCAF961.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Meticonaxius de Man 1905	<div><p>Meticonaxius de Man, 1905</p> <p>Meticonaxius de Man, 1905: 592.— Poore, 1997: 364–365 (for synonymy).— Sakai, 2011: 305–306.</p> <p>Meteoraxius Sakai and Türkay, 2012: 731–732 (type species Meteoraxius meteor Sakai and Türkay, 2012, by original designation). Syn. nov.</p> <p>Remarks. Meticonaxius has a long synonymy (see Poore, 1997). Sakai and Türkay (2012) compared their new genus and species, Meteoraxius meteor, with Marcusiaxius from which it differs in several features. Unfortunately, they did not compare it with Meticonaxius from which it can not be distinguished. Both genera vary in few characters that might be considered of generic value. The rostrum of species of Meticonaxius is narrower than that of species of Marcusiaxius; in some the apex is rounded and others acute but the eyes are always visible dorsally, unlike in Marcusiaxius where the broadly rounded rostrum covers the eyes. Meteoraxius meteor lacks setal rows on the carapace; the number recorded throughout the 15 species of both genera ranges from one to three so absence could not be considered of generic value. The species has a moderately developed crista dentata on maxilliped 3; it is absent in Marcusiaxius but variably developed in Meticonaxius species. Meteoraxius meteor has a long maxilliped 3 exopod; is usually rudimentary in these genera but can be as long as half the ischium. Meteoraxius meteor has the same shaped telson, longer than wide, as in all other species of Meticonaxius, different from the short telson of Marcusiaxius species. The uropodal endopod of M. meteor has a triangular apex and the exopod rounded. Similar uropods are seen in some species of Meticonaxius but in others the exopod ends more squarely. Meteoraxius post-dates and was not included in the review of Sakai (2011).The genus is here synonymised with Meticonaxius.</p> <p>Sakai (2011) excluded Meticonaxius longispina (Stebbing, 1920) and M. microps (Bouvier, 1905) from this genus, placing them in Marcusiaxius instead. He argued that the rostrum in both species ‘is not so acutely triangular as in Meticonaxius, but obtusely triangular as in Marcusiaxius.’ While the rostrums of these two species are more rounded than in other species of Meticonaxius both have dorsally visible eyes, broad uropodal endopod and more distally placed tooth on the fixed finger, all characteristic of this genus. The rostrum of species of Marcusiaxius can not be referred to as ‘obtusely triangular’.</p> <p>Poore (1997) provided a key to eight species of Meticonaxius. Lin (2006) added another and tabulated characters of nine species. Sakai and Türkay (2014) redescribed and illustrated M. coeca (Balss, 1921) from Tanzania and removed it from synonymy of M. monodon de Man, 1905 from Indonesia. Species now number ten.</p> <p>Meticonaxius is represented in Australia only by M. soela Sakai, 1992 at 300 m in the Coral Sea.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1322EE0FFFA1FFC0C985FF31FDCAF961	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Poore And D, Gary C. B.	Poore And D, Gary C. B. (2015): Micheleidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea): new family, generic and species synonymies, three new Australian species, and new records. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 73: 95-105
1322EE0FFFA1FFC1C985F911FEC4FE1C.text	1322EE0FFFA1FFC1C985F911FEC4FE1C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Michelea Kensley and Heard 1991	<div><p>Michelea Kensley and Heard, 1991</p> <p>Michelea Kensley and Heard, 1991: 519.— Poore, 1997: 373– 375.—Poore, 2008: 175.— Poore, 2004: 176–177.— Sakai, 2011: 311– 312.</p> <p>Micheleopsis Sakai, 2010: 1462 (type species Micheleopsis orlik Sakai, 2010, by original designation) Syn. nov.</p> <p>Remarks. Poore (1997) diagnosed the genus and provided a key to the ten species known. Michelea dampieri Poore, 2008, Michelea takeda Liu and Liu, 2012, Michelea orlik (Sakai, 2010) transferred from Micheleopsis, and the two new species described below can be added to his list. Members of the genus can usually be recognised by the presence of lamellae on the edges of the pleopodal rami but one of the new species described below lacks these lamellae. Otherwise, the extremely short rostrum, laterally compressed carapace, pereopodal setation, ovate uropodal rami, cylindrical eyestalks and the elongate first article of the antennule characterise the genus.</p> <p>Sakai (2010) erected the new genus Micheleopsis that he said looks superficially similar to Michelea. For the important generic characters listed above the two do not differ. He noted that the carapace of the new genus (represented by a single individual of one species, M. orlik) bears a dorsolateral carina running from each side of the rostrum to the posterior third of the gastric region – a similar carina has been illustrated for M. microphylla Poore, 1997 and is hinted at in other illustrations. The character would seem to rely on authors’ interpretations and illustrations. He noted that the maxilliped 3 exopod is rudimentary – it exceeds the ischium in all other species. This is one of several variable features of the genus, notably the number of gills and pleopodal lamellae, treated as being of specific value. Neither difference warrants separating a new genus from Michelea and it is here synonymised.</p> <p>Sakai (2010) also stated that the specimen of M. orlik was a male with uniramous pleopods 1, with distal patches of hooks, and 2-articulate pleopod 2 endopods without an appendix masculina. His illustration seems of a somewhat distorted, damaged or teratological ramus – nothing like it appears elsewhere in axioids. Adult males of seven species of Michelea are known: M. abranchiata Poore, 1997, M. dampieri, M. devanyi Poore, 1997, M. imperieusae sp. nov., M. leura (Poore and Griffin, 1979), Michelea takeda and M. vandoverae (Gore, 1987) – all have a male pleopod 1 typical of species in all micheleid genera, a stalked triangular blade with mesial hooks, and an appendix masculina on pleopod 2. Other species are known only from females or males in which pleopod 1 is absent or bud-like. The male holotype of M. lepta (Sakai, 1987) lacks pleopod 1 and an appendix masculina on pleopod 2; M. microphylla Poore, 1997 has an obsolete simple pleopod 1 and lacks an appendix masculina. Representatives of all species being so few, growth-related change in micheleids has not been reported. Seven males of M. vandoverae (cl. 4.1–6.2 mm, USNM collections) all possess a typical pleopod 1 (C.C. Tudge, pers. comm. 9 Mar 2013). In this paper we report a male of M. leura without a male pleopod 1, of which a male, previously identified as its synonym M. paraleura Poore, 1997, possesses a fully-formed pleopod.</p> <p>The same variation occurs in Tethisea (see below). Dworschak (2008) documented similar changes in pleopod 1 in a somewhat related species, Neocallichirus karumba (Poore and Griffin, 1979). We conclude that full formation of the male pleopod 1 may occur over more than one instar (absence to bud-like to triangular). Genera based on what could be juvenile features, such as a less than fully formed male pleopod 1, can not be justified while uncertainty remains over allometric changes.</p> <p>Micheleopsis is treated here as a junior synonym of Michelea. Neither the genus nor its only species was mentioned by Sakai (2011) in his otherwise comprehensive summary of Michelea and its included taxa.</p> <p>About half of the 13 species of Michelea are Australian: M. dampieri Poore, 2008, M. microphylla Poore, 1997, M. hortus Poore, 1997, M. leura (Poore and Griffin, 1979), M. novaecaledoniae Poore, 1997 newly recorded, and two newly erected here.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1322EE0FFFA1FFC1C985F911FEC4FE1C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Poore And D, Gary C. B.	Poore And D, Gary C. B. (2015): Micheleidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea): new family, generic and species synonymies, three new Australian species, and new records. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 73: 95-105
1322EE0FFFA0FFC1C99AFDD3FBFEFB6E.text	1322EE0FFFA0FFC1C99AFDD3FBFEFB6E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Michelea imperieusae Poore And D 2015	<div><p>Michelea imperieusae sp. nov.</p> <p>Figure 1</p> <p>Michelea sp. MoV5530.—McCallum, 2012: 57.</p> <p>Material examined. Holotype. Western Australia, RV <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=120.14017&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-18.457167" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 120.14017/lat -18.457167)">Southern Surveyor</a> Imperieuse L23 transect (18°27.37'S – 18°27.43'S, 120°08.41'E – 120°08.41'E), 80–81 m, 19 Jun 2007 (stn SS05/2007/082), NMV J55702 (male, cl 3.5 mm, fixed in 96% ethanol).</p> <p>Diagnosis. Gills fully developed. Pleopods 2–5 with 20/5, 19/10, 20/15 and 20/15 marginal lamellae on endopods/exopods respectively. Telson tapering, length 1.1 width. Maxilliped 3 ischium with obsolete crista dentata, exopod longer than ischium; merus with mesial tooth.</p> <p>Description. Cephalothorax 0.25 total length, about 1.8 times as long as greatest depth; rostrum acute, sharply narrowing from broad base, slightly depressed distally, about 0.7 as long as eyestalks; cervical groove weakly defined, reaching 0.65 length of cephalothorax; longitudinal setal-row level with lateral margin of eyestalk, of 6 setae; marginal setal-row of 2 setae at base of eyestalk.</p> <p>Pleomere 1 with dorsolateral longitudinal setal-row of 6 setae. Pleomeres 2–4 with transverse setal-row of about 6 setae near lateral posterior margin; pleomere 5 with transverse setal-row of 8 setae; all somites also with groups of long simple setae, none with marginal setal-rows. Pleomere 6 with 2 transverse setal-rows of 3 setae.</p> <p>Antennule with elongate waisted article 1, 0.4 times length of cephalothorax; articles 2 and 3 subequal, each about 0.25 length of article 1; flagella each of 10 articles, longer than peduncle. Antenna with distinct articulating scaphocerite, about third length of article 2; article 4 reaching to middle of article 2 of antenna 1; article 5 short; flagellum of 20 articles, more than twice as long as peduncle.</p> <p>Mandible, maxillules, maxillae, maxillipeds 1 and 2 typical of genus. Maxilliped 3 ischium with obsolete crista dentata; merus with strong mesial tooth; exopod 1.7 times ischium length.</p> <p>Chelipeds unknown.</p> <p>Pereopod 2 merus–propodus with lower marginal rows of long setae; carpus 0.55 length of merus; propodus little longer than carpus with setal-row of 7 short setae; fixed finger cutting edge with 4 short spiniform setae; dactylus longer than fixed finger, with 3 short spiniform setae on distal half of cutting edge; each finger with corneous tip. Pereopod 3 propodus twice as long as wide, with 4 spiniform setae on lower margin, plus 2 on distal-lower and 2 on distal-upper mesial face; and 2 transverse setal-rows of 3 and 2 setae; dactylus with 2 spiniform setae on upper-mesial margin. Pereopod 4 propodus 3 times as long as wide, 9 spiniform setae, some in pairs, on lower mesial face, and 6 on upper margin, and transverse setal-row of 4 setae; dactylus with 3 spiniform setae on upper-mesial margin. Pereopod 5 subchelate; propodus with setae on lower margin; fixed finger with 5 spiniform setae.</p> <p>Pleopods 1 of male curved mesially, expanded distally, with c. 8 minute hooks, setose around midpoint and laterally, and with 1 simple seta at apex. Pleopod 2 with 20/5 marginal lamellae on endopod/exopod respectively; appendix masculina third length of endopod; appendix interna half length of appendix masculina. Pleopod 3 with appendix interna sac-like, 3 times as long as wide; with 19 lamellae on endopod, 10 on exopod; pleopods 4 and 5 each with 20 lamellae on endopod, 15 on exopod.</p> <p>Uropodal endopod ovate, 1.6 times as long as wide, with a minute distal tooth; exopod ovate, 1.8 times as long as wide, mesiodistal margin oblique, lateral margin with 5 short spiniform setae. Telson tapering to rounded apex from onequarter length; 1.15 times as long as wide.</p> <p>Gills fully developed.</p> <p>Distribution. Western Australia, 18°S, 120°E, 80 m.</p> <p>Etymology. Imperieusae, from Imperieuse Reef, near the type locality, noun in genitive case.</p> <p>Remarks. Although the chelipeds are missing we are confident that this is a new species closest to M. hortus. It differs in having more pleopodal lamellae (M. hortus has only four or five marginal lamellae on the pleopodal endopods and none on the exopods), and more elongate uropodal rami (endopod and exopod 1.4 and 1.6 times as long as wide respectively) and telson (as wide as long).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1322EE0FFFA0FFC1C99AFDD3FBFEFB6E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Poore And D, Gary C. B.	Poore And D, Gary C. B. (2015): Micheleidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea): new family, generic and species synonymies, three new Australian species, and new records. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 73: 95-105
1322EE0FFFA0FFC4CA38FB61FD30F890.text	1322EE0FFFA0FFC4CA38FB61FD30F890.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Michelea kalbarri Poore And D 2015	<div><p>Michelea kalbarri sp. nov.</p> <p>Figure 2</p> <p>Michelea sp. MoV4969.— Poore et al., 2008: 95.</p> <p>Material examined. Holotype. Western Australia, off <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=113.418&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.487" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 113.418/lat -28.487)">Kalbarri</a> (27°48.29'S – 28°29.22'S, 113°17.49'E – 113°25.08'E), 123– 112 m, 04 Dec 2005 (stn SS10/2005/096), NMV J53462 (female, cl 3.4 mm).</p> <p>Diagnosis. Gills fully developed. Pleopods 2–5 without marginal lamellae. Telson tapering to rounded apex, length 1.2 width. Maxilliped 3 ischium with obsolete crista dentata; merus with mesial tooth.</p> <p>Description. Cephalothorax 0.37 total length, about 1.7 times as long as greatest depth; rostrum acute, sharply narrowing from broad base, slightly depressed distally, about 0.7 as long as eyestalks; cervical groove weakly defined, reaching 0.7 length of cephalothorax; longitudinal setal-row level with lateral margin of eyestalk, of 5 setae; marginal setal-row of 5 setae at base of eyestalk.</p> <p>Pleomere 1 without dorsolateral longitudinal setal-row. Pleomeres 3–5 with transverse setal-rows of 6–7 setae near midpoint; all somites also with groups of long simple setae, none with marginal setal-rows. Pleomere 6 with transverse setal-row of 4 setae.</p> <p>Antennule with elongate waisted article 1, 0.4 length of cephalothorax; articles 2 and 3 subequal, each about 0.25 length of article 1; flagella each of 14 articles, longer than peduncle. Antenna with distinct articulating scaphocerite, about half length of article 2; article 4 reaching to middle of article 3 of antennule; article 5 short; flagellum of 17 articles, more than twice as long as peduncle.</p> <p>Mandible, maxillules, maxillae, maxillipeds 1 and 2 typical of genus. Maxilliped 3 ischium with obsolete crista dentata; merus with strong mesial tooth; exopod 1.7 times ischium length.</p> <p>Chelipeds equal; ischium with weak lower tooth; merus twice as long as deep, upper margin convex, with weak tooth on slightly convex lower margin; carpus unarmed; propodus almost cylindrical, 3.5 times as long as deep; fixed finger 0.37 total length of propodus, its cutting edge with 1 obsolete tooth at midpoint; dactylus cutting edge straight, curved distally, equal to fixed finger.</p> <p>Pereopod 2 merus–propodus with lower marginal rows of long setae; carpus 0.5 length of merus; propodus 1.3 times as long as carpus, with setal-row of 5 short setae; fixed finger cutting edge with 5 short spiniform setae; dactylus longer than fixed finger, with 4 short spiniform setae on distal half of cutting edge; each finger with corneous tip. Pereopod 3 propodus 2.5 times as long as wide, with 2 spiniform setae on distal-upper mesial face, 7 on distal-lower face; and 2 transverse setal-rows of 3 and 4 setae; dactylus with 3 spiniform setae on upper margin. Pereopod 4 propodus 3.5 times as long as wide, with 3 spiniform setae on lower margin, 3 spiniform setae and numerous pectinate distally; with transverse setal-row of 3 setae; dactylus with 4 spiniform setae on upper-mesial margin. Pereopod 5 semichelate; propodus with setae on lower margin transforming to strongly pectinate distally; fixed finger with 4 distal spiniform setae; dactylus without spiniform setae.</p> <p>Pleopods 2–5 without marginal lamellae; appendix interna sac-like, 3 times as long as wide.</p> <p>Uropodal endopod ovate, 1.65 times as long as wide, with a minute distal tooth; exopod ovate, almost twice as long as wide, lateral margin with about 20 short spiniform setae. Telson tapering to rounded apex from one-third length; 1.2 times as long as wide.</p> <p>Branchial formula (f = filamentous; r = rudimentary): Thoracomere 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Arthrobranch – r 1 2 2 2 2 Epipod 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Podobranch – – f f f f –</p> <p>Distribution. Western Australia, 27°S, 113°E, 112– 123 m. 8 – – –</p> <p>Etymology. The specific name is that of a town near the type locality; noun in apposition.</p> <p>Remarks. Michelea kalbarri is notable for the absence of pleopodal lamellae on both rami, present on at least one ramus in all other species. While this feature has been treated as a key generic character the numbers of lamellae are highly variable, being absent on exopods of three species (Sakai, 2011) while the maximum is almost 100 on both rami in M. lamellosa Kensley and Heard, 1991. In all other respects, general habitus and pereopods, the species is a typical member of Michelea.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1322EE0FFFA0FFC4CA38FB61FD30F890	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Poore And D, Gary C. B.	Poore And D, Gary C. B. (2015): Micheleidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea): new family, generic and species synonymies, three new Australian species, and new records. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 73: 95-105
1322EE0FFFA5FFC4CA20FCD7FB60FA7A.text	1322EE0FFFA5FFC4CA20FCD7FB60FA7A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Michelea leura (Poore and Griffin 1979)	<div><p>Michelea leura (Poore and Griffin, 1979)</p> <p>Callianidea leura Poore and Griffin, 1979: 281–284, figs 40, 41.— Sakai, 1984: 104.</p> <p>Michelea leura.— Kensley and Heard 1991: 519.— Poore, 1997: 381–386, figs 17–19.— Sakai, 2011: 315.</p> <p>Michelea paraleura Poore, 1997: 390–393, figs 23, 24.— Sakai, 2011: 316. Syn. nov.</p> <p>Material examined. Australia, NT, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=132.18333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-11.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 132.18333/lat -11.4)">Port Essington</a>, Mangrove Point Reef (11°24.0'S, 132°11.0'E), LWS, R. Hanley, 15 Sep 1985 (NTMAG Cr013206, juvenile male, cl 2.5 mm).</p> <p>Distribution. NT, Qld, 11°– 19°S, reef, 1– 2 m.</p> <p>Remarks. Poore’s (1997) arguments separating M. paraleura from M. leura seem now unconvincing. The new juvenile male, three-quarters the size of the figured paratype male from NT, lacks a first pleopod. The appendix masculina carries fewer setae than in the paratype. The numbers of lamellae on the endopod and exopod of pleopod 2 are fewer (17, 13) then those of the larger paratype (26, 15) but more are evident on more posterior pleopods. The species was previously recorded from the Great Barrier Reef, Qld, and Oxley Island, NT. This record takes the species to mainland Australia.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1322EE0FFFA5FFC4CA20FCD7FB60FA7A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Poore And D, Gary C. B.	Poore And D, Gary C. B. (2015): Micheleidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea): new family, generic and species synonymies, three new Australian species, and new records. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 73: 95-105
1322EE0FFFA5FFC4CA20FF31FC79FD20.text	1322EE0FFFA5FFC4CA20FF31FC79FD20.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Michelea novaecaledoniae Poore 1997	<div><p>Michelea novaecaledoniae Poore, 1997</p> <p>Michelea novaecaledoniae Poore, 1997: 388–390, fig. 22.—</p> <p>Sakai, 2011: 316.</p> <p>Material examined. Coral Sea, Chesterfield Reef (19°06'S, 158°53'E), 32–60 m, R. Hanley, 27 Jul 1988 (NTMAG Cr013049, female; NTMAG Cr013052, ovigerous female with 10 embryos, cl 4.3 mm).</p> <p>Distribution. New Caledonia, 22°S, 166°E, and Chesterfield Reef, Coral Sea, 19°S, 158°E, 32– 60 m.</p> <p>Remarks. The pleopods and tailfan are consistent with the description of the type specimen from New Caledonia. The endopods of pleopods 3 and 4 have three and four lateral lamellae plus one mesially. This is the first record of an ovigerous female of Michelea. It is striking for the paucity of embryos (ten only) and their large oval size, 1.8 x 1.1 mm, 0.4 of the carapace length. This second record extends the species’ distribution.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1322EE0FFFA5FFC4CA20FF31FC79FD20	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Poore And D, Gary C. B.	Poore And D, Gary C. B. (2015): Micheleidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea): new family, generic and species synonymies, three new Australian species, and new records. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 73: 95-105
1322EE0FFFA5FFC5CA20FA7DFE9FFE75.text	1322EE0FFFA5FFC5CA20FA7DFE9FFE75.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tethisea Poore 1994	<div><p>Tethisea Poore, 1994</p> <p>Tethisea Poore, 1994: 99–100.— Poore, 1997: 393–394.— Sakai,</p> <p>2011: 309.</p> <p>Remarks. The rostrum, tapering truncate telson and ovate uropodal endopod of the new species described here are of the same form as those of the two species of Tethisea Poore, 1994 (Poore, 1997). The new species differs significantly in the absence of strong spiniform setae in the gape of the cheliped and the blunt, rather than attenuating and acute cheliped fingers. As in Michelea discussed above, the male pleopod 1 varies within and possibly between species. The male pleopod 1 of the new species is of the triangular form typical of adult micheleids. Of seven males of T. mindoro Poore, 1997 in Museum Victoria the two larger specimens (cl, 5.0, 6.5 mm) possess bud-like pleopods 1 and in five specimens (cl, 2.2–5.0 mm) pleopod 1 is absent. None has a triangular pleopod 1 but might be anticipated in a larger male. The appendix masculina is present on all pleopods 2.</p> <p>Besides the new species described below, Tethisea mindoro occurs in Western Australia, the only Australian state in which the genus occurs.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1322EE0FFFA5FFC5CA20FA7DFE9FFE75	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Poore And D, Gary C. B.	Poore And D, Gary C. B. (2015): Micheleidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea): new family, generic and species synonymies, three new Australian species, and new records. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 73: 95-105
1322EE0FFFA4FFC5C99AFE64FB4EFB57.text	1322EE0FFFA4FFC5C99AFE64FB4EFB57.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tethisea alanwilliamsi Poore And D 2015	<div><p>Tethisea alanwilliamsi sp. nov.</p> <p>Figures 3, 4</p> <p>Tethisea sp. MoV5472.— Poore et al., 2008: 95.</p> <p>Material examined. Holotype. Western Australia, off <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=117.1885&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-35.376" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 117.1885/lat -35.376)">Pt Hillier</a> (35°22.53'S – 35°22.56'S, 117°12.11'E – 117°11.31'E), 419–460 m, 22 Nov 2005 (stn SS10/2005/096), NMV J55604 (male, cl 9.7 mm).</p> <p>Diagnosis. Rostrum with convex lateral margins meeting at subacute tip. Maxilliped 3 without exopod. Cheliped without strong spiniform setae in gape; fingers moderatly stout, not finely attenuating. Uropodal exopod 1.3 times as long as wide.</p> <p>Description. Cephalothorax 0.35 total length, about 1.1 times as deep as wide; rostrum with convex lateral margins, obscuring eyes from dorsal view, meeting at subacute tip, slightly depressed distally, with dorsal setae along lateral carinae, 1.6 times as long as broad at base of eyes, almost 3 times as long as eyestalks; lateral carinae extending on to cephalothorax, without median carina; cervical groove weakly defined; dorsoposterior margin a convex medial lobe, separated from posterolateral margins; without setal-row.</p> <p>Pleomere 1 narrower than pleomere 2, with anterolateral lobes overlying posterolateral margins of cephalothorax; pleuron without marginal spine; dorsolateral setal-row of 7 setae. Pleomere 2 1.5 times as long as first, pleuron broadly overlapping first somite. Pleomeres 2–5 without setal-rows. Pleomere 6 with longitudinal setal-row of about 10 setae.</p> <p>Eyestalks acute distally, cornea pale, distal.</p> <p>Antennule with article 1 shorter than rostrum; articles 2 and 3 subequal, each about 0.4 length of article 1; flagella each of c. 14 articles, longer than peduncle. Antenna with long acute articulating scaphocerite, 0.85 length of article 4; article 4 reaching to near end of article 3 of antenna 1; article 5 short.</p> <p>Mandible, maxillae, maxillipeds 1 and 2 typical of genus. Maxilliped 3 ischium with crista dentata of 7 blunt teeth; merus without mesial tooth; ischium-merus with dense mesial rows of long setae; carpus–dactylus longer than ischium–merus; exopod almost semicircular, length about half width of ischium.</p> <p>Chelipeds equal in size but with slight variation in spination; ischium with distal spine on lower margin; merus with 3 (right) and 2 (left) spines on lower margin, upper margin strongly convex; carpus unarmed, carinate on upper margin; propodus 2.8 times as long as deep, deepest at midpoint, with carinate upper and lower margins, almost folded over on upper; fixed finger 0.3 length of propodus, with proximal blunt tooth on cutting edge, more prominent on left; gape slight, without long spiniform setae laterally; dactylus cutting edge concave proximally, blunt. Pereopod 2 merus–propodus with lower marginal rows of long setae; carpus 0.6 length of merus; propodus as long as carpus, without setal-row; fixed finger cutting edge with numerous contiguous spiniform setae; dactylus longer than fixed finger, straight. Pereopod 3 propodus 1.3 times as long as wide, upper and lower margins convex, posterior face densely setose, the whole forming a shallow oval dish-like surface, without setal-row; dactylus broad. Pereopod 4 propodus 1.8 times as long as wide, without setal-row; dactylus broad. Pereopod 5 propodus with short fixed finger; dactylus curved, about 3 times as long as fixed finger, distally rounded.</p> <p>Pleopods 1 of male 2-articled, second article 4 times as long as wide, with medial lobe bearing minute hooks. Pleopod 2 missing. Pleopod 3 endopod 3.8 times as long as wide; appendix interna 10 times as long as wide; exopod twice as long as wide, ovate. Pleopods 4 and 5 essentially similar to pleopod 3.</p> <p>Uropodal endopod with anterior margin weakly convex, ending by curving to rounded posterior margin, 1.3 times as long as wide; exopod with shallow concave anterior margin, apically rounded, posterior margin broadly lobed, 1.3 times as long as wide; with uneven robust setae among many plumose setae. Telson 1.1 times as long as wide, tapering to truncate apex beyond constriction one-third way along.</p> <p>Distribution. Western Australia, 35°S, 117°'E, 419– 460 m.</p> <p>Etymology. For Alan Williams, CSIRO Marine Laboratories, Hobart, promoter and organiser of the much-appreciated Voyages of Discovery research program, especially in Western Australia.</p> <p>Remarks. Tethisea alanwilliamsi differs from T. indica Poore, 1994 and T. mindoro Poore, 1997 in the absence of strong spiniform setae in the gape of the cheliped. The outline of the rostrum in dorsal view is intermediate between that of the described species; the cheliped is more robust and its fingers not of their attenuating acute form.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1322EE0FFFA4FFC5C99AFE64FB4EFB57	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Poore And D, Gary C. B.	Poore And D, Gary C. B. (2015): Micheleidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea): new family, generic and species synonymies, three new Australian species, and new records. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 73: 95-105
