Three new Indo-West Pacific species of coral reef mantis shrimps (Stomatopoda: Gonodactylidae)

作者：Shane T. Ahyong · 发表于：Global Biodiversity Information Facility · 年份：2026 · DOI：10.15468/6d7knz · 研究领域：Biology、Geography、Zoology、Ecology、Anatomy、Fishery

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Ahyong, Shane T. (2026): Three new Indo-West Pacific species of coral reef mantis shrimps (Stomatopoda: Gonodactylidae). Zootaxa 5845 (3): 478-492, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5845.3.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5845.3.3AbstractSpecies of the family Gonodactylidae Giesbrecht, 1910 are the dominant mantis shrimps on tropical Indo-West Pacific coral reefs. Two species of Gonodactylellus Manning, 1995 and one new species of Gonodactylus Berthold, 1827 are formally documented as new to science. Gonodactylellus aor sp. nov. is described from off southern Peninsular Malaysia and most closely resembles Gonodactylellus erdmanni Ahyong, 2001 and G. incipiens (Lanchester, 1903) but is readily distinguished by the presence of the distinct knob of the telson, which is visible in dorsal view and protrudes slightly beyond the apex of the median carina. Gonodactylellus kirki sp. nov. from Tonga, a member of the G. molyneux group, is unique in the genus in the presence of rounded and bulbous dorsal projections at the base of the submedian and intermediate teeth of the telson, and unusual in lacking the fixed distoventral spine on the proximal article of the uropodal exopod (a condition otherwise feature known only in G. choprai (Manning, 1967)) and G. kandi Ahyong & Erdmann, 2007. More significantly, the unusual telson structure of G. kirki is the strikingly similar to that of members of G...