Comprehensive Description
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Salmoneus mauiensis (Edmondson, 1930)
Jousseaumea mauiensis Edmondson, 1930:5, fig. 2 [type locality: Island of Maui, Hawaii; shallow water among dead coral heads].—A.H. Banner, 1953:12, fig. 2.
Salmoneus mauiensis.—D.M. and A.H. Banner, 1979:239.
DIAGNOSIS.—Rostrum rather narrowly acute, overreaching 2nd antennular segment, unarmed ventrally, dorsal carina rounded, confined to rostrum, proper; carapace with orbital teeth horizontal, not upturned, reaching to about level of midlength of 1st antennular segment, without dorsolateral crests; telson with posterior margin broadly emarginate; antennal scale overreaching antennular penduncle; major chela with movable finger not overreaching fixed finger, bearing 5–7 teeth on opposable margin; 3rd pereopod with dactyl simple, about as long as propodus; maximum carapace length to base of rostrum more than 4 mm.
RANGE.—Philippines and Hawaii; tide line to 3 meters.
- bibliographic citation
- Chace, Fenner Albert, Jr. 1997. "The Caridean shrimps (Crustacea:Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907-1910, Part 7: Families Atyidae, Eugonatonotidae, Rhynchocinetidae, Bathypalaemonidae, Processidae, and Hippolytidae." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-106. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.381.1
