Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 56

Polychelid lobsters (Decapoda: Polychelida: Polychelidae) collected by the CIDARIS expeditions off Central Queensland, with a summary of Australian and New Zealand distributions

Citation

Ahyong, S.T. 2012. Polychelid lobsters (Decapoda: Polychelida: Polychelidae) collected by the CIDARIS expeditions off Central Queensland, with a summary of Australian and New Zealand distributions. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 56(1): 1-8. Brisbane. ISSN 0079-8835. https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.56.1.2012-01

Published online

17 February 2012

Peer reviewed

Yes

DOI

https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.56.1.2012-01

Keywords

Crustacea, Polychelidae, lobsters, Queensland, Australia, New Zealand

Abstract 

The polychelid lobsters collected by the CIDARIS expeditions from outer shelf and slope waters off the central Great Barrier Reef are reported. Eight species in four genera are reported, including the first Queensland record of Stereomastis nana, the first Australian record of Pentacheles obscurus, and the first Indo-Pacific record of Willemoesia forceps.