Relevant Synonyms - Misidentification -  drawing : Tuvia Kurz

SHORT DESCRIPTION Rostrum short, acute. Carapace extremely laterally compressed, anteriorly elongate, with mandibles widely separated from antennae and eyes. Distance between labrum and orbital margin almost twice the length of eye-stalk. Sixth abdominal somite in male bearing two ventral processes, not swollen distally. Telson in male with prominent protuberances on ventral surface. Antennulae lacking ventral flagellum. Only three anterior pereopods present, third pereopod imperfectly chelate. Genital openings in both sexes unpaired. Petasma sessile, attached proximally to first pleopodal peduncle. Second pleopod in male with unilamellate appendix masculina. color : semi-transparent. common size : TL males 0.9 cm, TL females 1.2 cm. DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS Carapace extremely laterally compressed, anteriorly elongate, distance between labrum and orbital margin almost twice the length of eye-stalk. BIOLOGY / ECOLOGY Pelagic species. habitat : pelagic, over continental shelf.

1st MEDITERRANEAN RECORD Egypt, 1927 [1924]. DISTRIBUTION Worldwide : Indo-West Pacific, from Red Sea to Australia. Mediterranean : a single record from Egypt (Balss, 1927 [1924]). ESTABLISHMENT SUCCESS Unknown; only a single record in the Mediterranean. speculated reasons for success : - MODE OF INTRODUCTION Via the Suez Canal (Fox, 1926). IMPORTANCE TO HUMANS None.

KEY REFERENCES Balss H., 1927. Bericht über die Crustacea Decapoda (Natantia und Anomura). Zoological Results of the Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Canal 1924, XIV. Transactions of the Zological Society of London 22: 221-227. Hansen H.J., 1919. The Sergestidae of the Siboga expedition, Siboga expeditie, 38: 1-65, 5 pls. Perez-Farfante I. and B. Kensley, 1997. Penaeoid and sergestoid shrimps and prawns of the world. Keys and diagnoses for the families and genera. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 175:1-233.   Petit D., 1973. Données sur la morphologie et la croissance chez le genre Lucifer (Decapodes Sergestidae): L. intermedius, L. penicillifer, L. hanseni, L. chacei, L. faxonii. Cahiers O.R.S.T.O.M., Série Océanographie, 11(2): 207-227. FEEDBACK / COMMENTS TO AUTHORS

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