Register      Login
Invertebrate Systematics Invertebrate Systematics Society
Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography
RESEARCH ARTICLE

A review of Palaemonella (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae), with clarification of the taxonomic status of Cuapetes americanus, Eupontonia and Vir

Pavlína Frolová https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9108-0805 A , Eva van der Veer https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4561-1545 B , Charles H. J. M. Fransen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7760-2603 B and Zdeněk Ďuriš https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1701-6562 A *
+ Author Affiliations
- Author Affiliations

A Department of Biology and Ecology University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, CZ-71000 Ostrava, Czechia.

B Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, NL-2333 CR Leiden, Netherlands.

* Correspondence to: zdenek.duris@osu.cz

Handling Editor: Shane Ahyong

Invertebrate Systematics 38, IS23055 https://doi.org/10.1071/IS23055
Submitted: 6 December 2023  Accepted: 5 March 2024  Published: 29 April 2024

© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing.

Abstract

The pantropical genus Palaemonella Dana, 1852 (Caridea: Palaemonidae) currently includes 27 species of free-living and symbiotic marine shrimps. The monophyly of Palaemonella with respect to several closely related genera, however, has been questioned by recent analyses. We tested the monophyly of Palaemonella based on multigene phylogenetic analysis and the genus was revealed to be a paraphyletic assemblage by inclusion of species of the genera Eupontonia Bruce, 1971 and Vir Holthuis, 1952, and two genetic lineages of the western Atlantic Cuapetes americanus (Kingsley, 1878). We recognise one of the latter lineages as the previously described Periclimenes rhizophorae Lebour, 1949. Eupontonia and Vir are synonymised with Palaemonella. We also transfer Cuapetes americanus and Periclimenes rhizophorae to Palaemonella. Species previously assigned to Vir were revised; V. colemani Bruce, 2003, V. orientalis (Dana, 1852), V. philippinensis Bruce & Svoboda, 1984 and V. smiti Fransen & Holthuis, 2007 are regarded as valid species of Palaemonella; Vir longidactylus Marin, 2008 is synonymised with P. smiti; and the status of V. euphyllius Marin & Anker, 2005 remains unresolved. Palaemonella is currently regarded as a taxon with variable states of two main diagnostic characters, i.e. the plesiomorphic mandibular palp (fully reduced in P. americana) and the hepatic tooth (fully reduced in former species of Vir and Eupontonia – evidently due to symbiotic modes of life).

ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7EEBC655-7EDE-4E46-BCB2-2A3BA16ED7DD

Keywords: Caridea, Crustacea, Decapoda, Eupontonia, molecular phylogeny, Palaemonella, Palaemonidae, revision, Vir.

References

Abele LG, Kim W (1986) An illustrated guide to the marine decapod crustaceans of Florida. State of Florida, Department of Environmental Regulation, Technical Series 8, 1-760.
| Google Scholar |

Anker A, Assayie AA (2023) A further new species of Palaemonella Dana, 1852 from the coasts of the Arabian Peninsula (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Zootaxa 5369, 427-436.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Anker A, Benzoni F (2023) Hidden in plain sight: two new species of decapod crustaceans (Palaemonidae and Porcellanidae) discovered in the Red Sea on a university campus in Saudi Arabia. Zootaxa 5278, 78-102.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Anker A, De Grave S (2019) Further records of burrow-associated palaemonid shrimps (Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Zootaxa 4612, 4612.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Borradaile LA (1898) XLIII.—A revision of the Pontoniidæ. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2(7), 376-391.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Borradaile LA (1899) On some crustaceans from the South Pacific. – Part III. Macrura. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 66, 1000-1015 [for 1898 volume].
| Google Scholar |

Borradaile LA (1915) XIV.—Notes on carides. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 15(8), 205-213.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Bouchet P, Le Guyader H, Pascal O (2011) The “making of” Santo 2006. In ‘The Natural History of Santo. Patrimoines Naturels, Vol. 70’. (Eds P Bouchet, H Le Guyader, O Pascal) pp. 529–548. (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, IRD, Marseille, Pro-Natura International: Paris, France)

Bruce AJ (1970) Observations on the Indo-West-Pacific species of the genus Palaemonella Dana, 1852 (Decapoda, Pontoniinae). Crustaceana 19(3), 273-287.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Bruce AJ (1971) Notes on some Indo-Pacific Pontoniinae. XVII. Eupontonia noctalbata gen. nov., sp. nov., a new pontoniinid shrimp from Mahé, the Seychelle Islands. Crustaceana 20, 225-236.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Bruce AJ (1975) Further observations on the Indo-West Pacific species of the genus Palaemonella Dana, 1852 (Decapoda Natantia, Pontoniinae). Crustaceana 29, 169-185.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Bruce AJ (1976) A synopsis of the pontoniinid shrimp fauna of Central East Africa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India 16 (for 1974), 462-490.
| Google Scholar |

Bruce AJ (1978) A report on a collection of pontoniine shrimps from Madagascar and adjacent seas. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 62, 205-290.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Bruce AJ (1982) The pontoniine shrimp fauna or Hong Kong. In ‘Proceedings of the First International Marine Biological Workshop: the marine Fauna of Hong Kong and southern China, Hong Kong 1980, I’, 18 April–10 May1980, Hong Kong. (Eds B Morton, CK Tseng) pp. 233–284. (Hong Kong University Press: Hong Kong)

Bruce AJ (1991) Shallow-water palaemonoid shrimps from New Caledonia (Crustacea: Decapoda). In ‘Le benthos des Fonds Meubles des Lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Vol. 1’. (Ed. B Richer de Forges) pp. 221–279. (ORSTOM: Paris, France)

Bruce AJ (1995) A synopsis of the Indo-West Pacific genera of the Pontoniinae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae). Theses Zoologicae 25, 1-172.
| Google Scholar |

Bruce AJ (2002a) Notes on some Indo-Pacific Pontoniinae, XLVI. Palaemonella foresti sp. nov., a new pontoniine shrimp from Western Australia (Decapoda, Palaemonidae), with a review of the Indo-West Pacific species of the genus Palaemonella Dana, 1852. Crustaceana 75, 277-298.
| Google Scholar |

Bruce AJ (2002b) A new species of Palaemonella (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from East Africa. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 18, 15-18.
| Google Scholar |

Bruce AJ (2003a) Vir colemani sp. nov., a new commensal pontoniine shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Papua New Guinea. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 19, 119-124.
| Google Scholar |

Bruce AJ (2003b) The pontoniine shrimp fauna of Hong Kong and the South China Sea (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). In ‘Proceedings of an International Workshop Reunion Conference, Hong Kong: Perspectives on Marine Environment Change in Hong Kong and Southern China, 1977–2001’. (Ed. B Morton) pp. 209–257. (Hong Kong University Press: Hong Kong, China)

Bruce AJ (2004) A partial revision of the genus Periclimenes Costa, 1884 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Zootaxa 582, 1-26.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Bruce AJ (2005) Palaemonella burnsi Holthis, 1973, a pontoniine shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) new to the Japanese fauna. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 46, 211-215.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Bruce AJ (2008) A new species of Palaemonella Dana, 1852 (Crustacea: Decapoda; Pontoniinae) from the Red Sea. Zootaxa 1844, 63-68.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Bruce AJ (2010a) Palaemonella dijonesae sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from Western Australia. Zootaxa 2372, 151-156.
| Google Scholar |

Bruce AJ (2010b) Eupontonia oahu sp. nov., a second species of the genus Eupontonia Bruce, 1971, (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from Oahu, Hawai’ian Islands. Zootaxa 2372, 405-414.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Bruce AJ, Svoboda A (1983) Observations upon some pontoniine shrimps from Aqaba, Jordan. Zoologische Verhandelingen 205, 1-44.
| Google Scholar |

Bruce AJ, Svoboda A (1984) A report on a small collection of coelenterate-associated pontoniine shrimps from Cebu, Philippines Islands. Asian Marine Biology 1, 87-99.
| Google Scholar |

Carvacho A (1977) Sur le palpe mandibulaire dans le genre Leander Desmarest (Decapoda, Palaemonidae). Crustaceana 33(1), 100-101 [In French].
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Carvacho A (1979) Les crevettes carides de la mangrove guadeloupéenne. Bulletin du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, 4ème série 1, 445-470 [In French].
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Chace FA, Jr (1972) The shrimps of the Smithsonian–Bredin Caribbean expeditions with a summary of the West Indian shallow-water species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Natantia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 98, 1-179.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Chace FA Jr, Bruce AJ (1993) The caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition 1907–1910, Part 6: Superfamily Palaemonoidea. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 543, 1-152.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Chow LH, De Grave S, Tsang LM (2020) The family Anchistioididae Borradaile, 1915 Decapoda: Caridea) is a synonym of Palaemonidae Rafinesque, 1815 based on molecular and morphological evidence. Journal of Crustacean Biology 40, 277-287.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Chow LH, De Grave S, Tsang LM (2021) Evolution of protective symbiosis in palaemonid shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea) with emphases on host spectrum and morphological adaptations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 162, e107201.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Colgan DJ, Hutchings PA, Beacham E (2008) Multi-gene analyses of the phylogenetic relationships among the Mollusca, Annelida, and Arthropoda. Zoological Studies 47, 338-351.
| Google Scholar |

Costa FO, deWaard JR, Boutillier J, Ratnasingham S, Dooh RT, Hajibabaei M, Hebert PDN (2007) Biological identifications through DNA barcodes: the case of the Crustacea. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64, 272-295.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Crandall KA, Fitzpatrick JF (1996) Crayfish molecular systematics: using a combination of procedures to estimate phylogeny. Systematic Biology 45, 1-26.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Dana JD (1852) Conspectus Crustaceorum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e Classe Reipublicae Foederatae e Duce, lexit et descripsit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1852, 10-28.
| Google Scholar |

Debelius H (1999) ‘Crustacean Guide of the World: Shrimps, Crabs, Lobsters, Mantis Shrimps, Amphipods.’ (Ikan-Unterwasserarchiv: Frankfurt, Germany)

De Grave S, Fransen CHJM (2011) Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededeelingen 85, 195-589.
| Google Scholar |

De Grave S, Fransen CHJM, Page TJ (2015) Let’s be pals again: major systematic changes in Palaemonidae (Crustacea: Decapoda). PeerJ 3, e1167.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Dereeper A, Guignon V, Blanc G, Audic S, Buffet S, Chevenet F, Dufayard JF, Guindon S, Lefort V, Lescot M, Claverie JM, Gascuel O (2008) Phylogeny.fr: robust phylogenetic analysis for the non-specialist. Nucleic Acids Research 36, W465-W469.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

d’Udekem d’Acoz C (1999) ‘Inventaire et distribution des crustacés décapodes de l’Atlantique nord-oriental, de la Méditerranée et des eaux continentales adjacentes au nord de 25°N. Vol. 40’. (Patrimoines naturels (MNHN/SRN: Paris, France) [In French]

Ďuriš Z (2017) Palaemonid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Saudi Arabia from the ‘Red Sea Biodiversity Survey’ 2011–2013, with 11 new records for the Red Sea. Marine Biodiversity 47, 1147-1161.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Ďuriš Z, Bruce AJ (1995) A revision of the ‘petitthouarsii’ species-group of the genus Periclimenes Costa, 1844 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Journal of Natural History 29, 619-671.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Edgar RC (2004) MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput. Nucleic Acids Research 32, 1792-1797.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Folmer O, Black M, Hoeh W, Lutz R, Vrijenhoek R (1994) DNA primers for amplification of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I from diverse metazoan invertebrates. Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology 3, 294-299.
| Google Scholar | PubMed |

Fransen CHJM (1987) Notes on caridean shrimps of Easter Island with descriptions of three new species. Zoologische Mededelingen 61, 501-531.
| Google Scholar |

Fransen CHJM (2008) Pontoniine shrimps. In ‘Cryptic marine biota of the Raja Ampat island group. Progress Report’. (Eds BW Hoeksema, SET van der Meij) pp. 16–18. (Naturalis: Leiden, Netherlands)

Fransen CHJM (2012) Palaemonoid shrimps. In ‘Semporna Marine Ecological Expedition’. (Eds K Kassem, B Hoeksema, Affendi YA), pp. 65–72. (WWF-Malaysia, NCB Naturalis, Universiti Malaysia Sabah: Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia)

Fransen CHJM, Holthuis LB (2007) Vir smiti spec. nov., a new scleractinian associated pontoniine shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Zoologische Mededelingen 81, 101-114.
| Google Scholar |

Fransen CHJM, Wirtz P (1997) Contribution to the knowledge of decapod crustaceans from Madeira and the Canary Islands. Zoologische Mededelingen 71, 215-230.
| Google Scholar |

Fransen CHJM, van der Veer E, Frolová P (2022a) A new species of scleractinian associated shrimp of the genus Palaemonella (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) with a redescription of Palaemonella orientalis Dana, 1852. Zootaxa 5214, 557-580.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Fransen CHJM, Schubart CM, Moro L (2022b) A new species of Cuapetes (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae) from the Canary Islands. Crustaceana 95, 353-371.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Fransen CHJM, van der Veer E, Ďuriš Z (2023) A new species of Palaemonella (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae) associated with scleractinian corals of the genus Euphyllia Dana. Crustaceana 96(4), 345-381.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Frolová P, Horká I, Ďuriš Z (2022) Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of marine palaemonid shrimps (Palaemonidae: Palaemonella–Cuapetes group). Scientific Reports 12, 15237.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Fujino T, Miyake S (1968) On the mandible of the genus Palaemon of Japanese palaemonid shrimps with discussion on its taxonomical value. Ohmu 1, 191-200.
| Google Scholar |

Gan ZB, Li XZ, Chan TY, Chu KH, Kou Q (2015) Phylogeny of Indo-West Pacific pontoniine shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) based on multilocus analysis. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 53(4), 282-290.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Grajal AP, Laughlin RG (1984) Decapod crustaceans inhabiting live and dead colonies of three species of Acropora in the Roques Archipelago, Venezuela. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 54(2), 220-230.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Hayashi K (2001) 日本産エビ類の分類と生態 (117) テナガエビ科-カク レエビ亜科--スベスベカクレエビ属 [‘Prawns, shrimps and lobsters from Japan (117). Family Palaemonidae, subfamily Pontoniinae – genus Palaemonella.’]. Aquabiology 133, 160-164 [In Japanese].
| Google Scholar |

Hayashi K (2009) Redescription of Palaemonella spinulata Yokoya with designation of a neotype and description of a new species of Palaemonella from Japan (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae). Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science 3(Suppl.), 89-103.
| Google Scholar |

Hemming F (Ed.) (1957) Opinion 470. Addition to the “Official List of Generic Names in Zoology” of the names of one hundred and two genera of Caridea (Class Crustacea, Order Decapoda) and use of the Plenary Powers for various purposes in connection therewith. In ‘Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Volume 16. Part 9’. pp. 129–202. (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature: London, UK)

Hernández-Ávila I, Gómez A, Lira C, Galindo L (2007) Benthic decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Cubagua Island, Venezuela. Zootaxa 1557, 33-45.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Hoeksema BW, van der Meij SET (Eds) (2008) ‘Cryptic marine biota of the Raja Ampat island group: preliminary results of the Raja Ampat Expedition (2007), Ekspedisi Widya Nusantara (E-Win) of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI).’ (National Museum of Natural History Naturalis: Leiden, Netherlands)

Holmes SJ (1900) Synopsis of California stalk-eyed Crustacea. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 7, 1-262.
| Google Scholar |

Holthuis LB (1951a) The caridean Crustacea of Tropical West Africa. Atlantide Report. Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa 1945–1946 2, 7-187.
| Google Scholar |

Holthuis LB (1951b) A general revision of the Palaemonidae (Crustacea Decapoda Natantia) of the Americas. I. The subfamilies Euryrhynchidae and Pontoniinae. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 11, 1-332.
| Google Scholar |

Holthuis LB (1952) The Decapoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part XI. The Palaemonidae collected by the Siboga and Snellius Expeditions with remarks on other species. II. Subfamily Pontoniinae. Siboga Expedition Monograph 39(10), 1-254.
| Google Scholar |

Holthuis LB (1955) The recent genera of the caridean and stenopodidean shrimps (Class Crustacea, order Decapoda, supersection Natantia) with keys for their determination. Zoölogische Verhandelingen 26, 1-157.
| Google Scholar |

Holthuis LB (1973) Caridean shrimps found in land-locked saltwater pools at four Indo-West Pacific localities (Sinai Peninsula, Funafuti Atoll, Maui and Hawaii Islands), with the description of one new genus and four new species. Zoologische Verhandelingen 128, 1-48.
| Google Scholar |

Holthuis LB (1993) ‘The Recent Genera of the Caridean and Stenopodidean Shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda), with an Appendix on the Order Amphionidacea.’ (Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum: Leiden, Netherlands)

Horká I, De Grave S, Fransen CHJM, Petrusek A, Ďuriš Z (2016) Multiple host switching events shape the evolution of symbiotic palaemonid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Scientific Reports 6, 26486.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Horká I, De Grave S, Fransen CHJM, Petrusek A, Ďuriš Z (2018) Multiple origins and strong phenotypic convergence in fish-cleaning palaemonid shrimp lineages. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 124, 71-81.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Humann P, DeLoach N (2010) ‘Reef Creature Identification: Tropical Pacific.’ (New World Publications: Jacksonville, FL, USA)

Jose S, Paramasivam P, Chandran R, Bharathi S, Dhinakaran A, Ajith Kumar TT, Lal KK (2021) Two new distributional records of Palaemonella Dana, 1852 shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from Lakshadweep Islands, India. Nauplius 29, e2021049.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Kato S, Okuno J (2001) エビ・カニガにドブック. 伊豆諸島・八丈島の海から [‘Shrimps and Crabs of Hachijo Island.’] (TBS-Britannica, Co. Ltd: Tokyo, Japan) [In Japanese]

Kawamoto T, Okuno J (2003) エビ・カニガにドブック. 沖縄・久米島の海から [‘Shrimps and Crabs of Kume Island, Okinawa.’] (Hankyu Communications, Co. Ltd: Tokyo, Japan) [In Japanese]

Kemp S (1922) Notes on Crustacea Decapoda in the Indian Museum. XV. Pontoniinae. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 24, 113-228.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Kingsley JS (1878) Notes on the North American Caridea in the Museum of the Peabody Academy of Science at Salem, Mass. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1878, 89-98.
| Google Scholar |

Kingsley JS (1880) A collection of Crustacea from Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida, with a revision of the genera of Crangonidae and Palæmonidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1879, 383-427.
| Google Scholar |

Komai T, Minemizu R (2014) A new species of the pontoniine shrimp genus Eupontonia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Zootaxa 3784, 171-178.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Komai T, Yamada Y (2015) A new species of the palaemonid shrimp genus Palaemonella Dana, 1852 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Zootaxa 3964(3), 352-362.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Kuiter RH, Debelius H (2009) ‘World Atlas of Marine Fauna.’ (Ikan-Unterwasserarchiv: Frankfurt, Germany)

Kumar S, Stecher G, Li M, Knyaz C, Tamura K (2018) MEGA X: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis across computing platforms. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35, 1547-1549.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Lanfear R, Frandsen PB, Wright AM, Senfeld T, Calcott B (2017) PartitionFinder 2: new methods for selecting partitioned models of evolution for molecular and morphological phylogenetic analyses. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34, 772-773.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Lebour MV (1949a) Some new decapod Crustacea from Bermuda. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118, 1107-1117.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Lebour MV (1949b) Alteration in the specific name of Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) bermudensis Lebour. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 119, 605.
| Google Scholar |

Lemoine F, Correia D, Lefort V, Doppelt-Azeroual O, Mareuil F, Cohen-Boulakia S, Gascuel O (2019) NGPhylogeny.fr: new generation phylogenetic services for non-specialists. Nucleic Acids Research 47(W1), 260.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Letunic I, Bork P (2021) Interactive tree of Life (iTOL) v5: an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation. Nucleic Acids Research 49(W1), W293-W296.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Li X, Bruce AJ (2006) Further Indo‐West Pacific palaemonoid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonoidea), principally from the New Caledonian region. Journal of Natural History 40, 611-738.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Li X, Poupin J (2009) Report on some species of Palaemonidae (Decapoda: Caridea) from Clipperton Island. Journal of Crustacean Biology 29, 579-594.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Li X, Liu R, Liang X, Chen G (2007) 中国动物志无脊椎动物第四十四卷甲壳动物亚门十足目 长臂虾总科 [‘Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata. Vol. 44. Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonoidea.’] (Science Press: Beijing, PR China) [In Chinese]

Li X, Mitsuhashi M, Chan T-Y (2008) Deep-sea pontoniines (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the Philippine “Panglao 2005” expedition, with descriptions of four new species. Journal of Crustacean Biology 28, 385-411.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Lira C (2004) Crustáceos decápodos bentónicos litorales de la isla de La Tortuga, Venezuela. FONACIT S1- 99000932, Technical Report, Universidad de Oriente, Boca del Rio, Venezuela. [In Spanish]

Marin IN (2007) Notes on taxonomy and biology of the symbiotic shrimp Vir euphyllius Marin & Anker, 2005 (Decapoda, Palaemonidae, Pontoniinae), associated with hammer corals Euphyllia spp. (Cnidaria, Caryophyllidae). Invertebrate Zoology 4, 15-23.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Marin IN (2008) Description of two new species from the genera Palaemonella Dana, 1852 and Vir Holthuis, 1952 (Crustacea: Caridea): Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae. Zoologische Mededelingen 82, 375-390.
| Google Scholar |

Marin I (2014) The first record of an association between a pontoniine shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae) and a thalassematid spoon worm (Echiura: Thalassematidae), with the description of a new shrimp species. Zootaxa 3847, 557-566.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Marin IN, Anker A (2005) Two new species of the genus Vir Holthuis, 1952 from Vietnam (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Arthropoda Selecta 14, 117-128.
| Google Scholar |

Marin IN, Savinkin OV (2007) Further records and preliminary list of pontoniine (Caridea: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae) and hymenocerid (Caridea: Hymenoceridae) shrimps from Nhatrang Bay. In ‘Benthic fauna of the Bay of Nhatrang, Southern Vietnam’. (Eds TA Britayev, DS Pavlov) pp. 175–208. (KMK-Press: Moscow, Russian Federation)

Miller MA, Pfeiffer W, Schwartz T (2010) Creating the CIPRES Science Gateway for inference of large phylogenetic trees, In ‘Proceedings of the Gateway Computing Environments Workshop’, 14 November 2010, New Orleans, LA, USA. INSPEC Accession Number 11705685. (IEEE) 10.1109/GCE.2010.5676129

Minemizu R (2000) 海の甲殻類 峯水 亮 著 奥野 淳児 武田 正倫 [‘Marine Decapod and Stomatopod Crustaceans mainly from Japan.’] (Bun-ichi Sogo Shuppan, Co. Ltd: Tokyo, Japan) [In Japanese]

Minemizu R (2013) サンゴ礁のエビハンドブック [‘Coral reef shrimps of Indo-West Pacific.’] (Bun-ichi Sogo Shuppan, Co. Ltd: Tokyo, Japan) [In Japanese]

Minh BQ, Nguyen MAT, von Haeseler A (2013) Ultrafast approximation for phylogenetic bootstrap. Molecular Biology and Evolution 30, 1188-1195.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Moraes IRR, Almeida AO, Cobo VJ, Alves DFR, Davanso TM, Castilho AL (2021) Biodiversity of caridean shrimps on rocky bottoms of two preserved islands on the southeastern Brazilian coast. Marine Biology Research 16(8–9), 616-631.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Müller H-G (1993) ‘Catalogue of Indo-West Pacific Pontoniine Shrimps.’ (Wetzlar)

Nobili G (1907) Nuove osservazioni sulla identità di Brachycarpus neapolitanus Cano e Palaemon biunguculatus Lucas. Annuario del Museo Zoologico della R. Università di Napoli (Nuova Serie) 2, 1-6, Pl. 11 [In Italian].
| Google Scholar |

Okuno J (1999) Palaemonella hachijo, a new species of shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from a submarine cave in southern Japan. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 112, 739-745.
| Google Scholar |

Okuno J (2001) Additional specimens of Palaemonella hachijo Okuno, 1999 (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae). Crustaceana 73(10), 1297-1299.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Okuno J (2009) Cuapetes Clark, 1919, a senior synonym of Kemponia Bruce, 2004 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Zootaxa 2028, 67-68.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Okuno J (2017) Palaemonella shirakawai, a new species of shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), associated with burrow dwelling opistognathid fish from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Zootaxa 4299, 521-528.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Palumbi SR, Martin A, Romano S, McMillan WO, Stice L, Grabowski G (1991) ‘The Simple Fool’s Guide to PCR’, version 2. (University of Hawaii Press: Honolulu, HI, USA)

Porter ML, Pérez-Losada M, Crandall KA (2005) Model-based multi-locus estimation of decapod phylogeny and divergence times. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37(2), 355-369.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Poupin J (2018) Les Crustacés décapodes des Petites Antilles, avec de nouvelles observations pour Saint Martin, la Guadeloupe et la Martinique. Patrimoines Naturels 77, 1-264 [In French].
| Google Scholar |

Rambaut A, Drummond AJ, Xie D, Baele G, Suchard MA (2018) Posterior summarization in Bayesian phylogenetics using Tracer 1.7. Systematic Biology 67(5), 901-904.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Rathbun MJ (1902) Investigations of the aquatic resources and fisheries of Porto Rico by the United States Fish Commission Steamer Fish Hawk in 1899. The Brachyura and Macrura of Porto Rico –Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 20, 1-127 [for 1900 volume, preprint dated 1901, published in 1902].
| Google Scholar |

Rathbun MJ (1920) Stalk-eyed crustaceans of the Dutch West Indies, collected by Dr. J. Boeke, 1904-1905. In ‘Rapport betreffende een voorlopig onderzoek naar den toestand van de Visscherij en de Industrie van Zeeproducten in de Kolonie Curaçao ingevolge het Ministerieel Besluit van 22 November 1904. Vol. 2’. (Ed. J Boeke) pp. 317–348. (Visscherij en de Industrie van Zeeproducten: Curaçao)

Rodríguez B (1986) Los camarones (Crustacea; Decapoda; Natantia) del Parque Nacional Archipiélago de los Roques. Licenciado en Biología, Universidad Central de Venezuela 1986, 1-350 [In Spanish].
| Google Scholar |

Ronquist F, Teslenko M, van der Mark P, Ayres DL, Darling A, Höhna S, Larget B, Liu L, Suchard MA, Huelsenbeck JP (2012) MrBayes 3.2: efficient Bayesian phylogenetic inference and model choice across a large model space. Systematic Biology 61, 539-542.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Rossignol M (1962) Catalogue des Crustacés Décapodes Brachyoures, Anomoures et Macroures littoraux et collection au centre d’Océanographie de Pointe-Noire. Travaux du Centre Océanographique de Pointe-Noire, O.R.S.T.O.M 2, 111-138 [In French].
| Google Scholar |

Ryanskiy A (2010) ‘Coral Reef Crustacea from Red Sea to Papua’, 2nd edn. (Reef ID Books, Andrey Ryanskiy: Moscow, Russian Federation)

Schmitt WL (1935) Crustacea Macrura and Anomura of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. In ‘Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Vol. 15, Part 2’. pp. 125–227, 255–262 [index]. (New York Academy of Sciences: New York, NY, USA)

Schmitt WL (1936) Zoologische Ergebnisse einer Reise nach Bonaire, Curaçao und Aruba im Jahre 1930. No. 16. Macruran and anomuran Crustacea from Bonaire, Curaçao und Aruba. Zoologische Jahrbücher 67, 363-378.
| Google Scholar |

Talavera G, Castresana J (2007) Improvement of phylogenies after removing divergent and ambiguously aligned blocks from protein sequence alignments. Systematic Biology 56, 564-577.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Trifinopoulos J, Nguyen LT, von Haeseler A, Minh BQ (2016) W-IQ-TREE: a fast online phylogenetic tool for maximum likelihood analysis. Nucleic Acids Research 44, W232-W235.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Türkay M (1982) Marine Crustacea Decapoda von den Kapverdischen Inseln mit Bemerkungen zur Zoogeographie des Gebietes. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 52, 91-129 [In German].
| Google Scholar |

Vaidya G, Lohman DJ, Meier R (2011) SequenceMatrix: concatenation software for the fast assembly of multigene datasets with character set and codon information. Cladistics 27, 171-180.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Vaslet A, Chevry L, Allonce N, Brugneaux S (2013) Analyse régionale, Guadeloupe, synthèse des connaissances. Rapport du Parc national de la Guadeloupe, Agence des Aires Marines Protégées, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane 2013, 1-264 [In French].
| Google Scholar |

Whiting MF (2002) Mecoptera is paraphyletic: multiple genes and phylogeny of Mecoptera and Siphonaptera. Zoologica Scripta 31, 93-104.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Wirtz P (1997) Crustacean symbionts of the sea anemone Telmatactis cricoides at Madeira and the Canary Islands. Journal of Zoology 242, 799-811.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Wirtz P, d’Udekem d’Acoz C (2001) Decapoda from Antipatharia, Gorgonaria and Bivalvia at the Cape Verde Islands. Helgoland Marine Research 55, 112-115.
| Crossref | Google Scholar |

Xia X (2017) DAMBE6: new tools for microbial genomics, phylogenetics and molecular evolution. Journal of Heredity 108, 431-437.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Xia XH, Xie Z, Salemi M, Chen L, Wang Y (2003) An index of substitution saturation and its application. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26, 1-7.
| Crossref | Google Scholar | PubMed |

Yokoya Y (1936) Some rare and new species of decapod crustaceans found in the vicinity of the Misaki Marine Biological Station. Japanese Journal of Zoology 7, 129-146.
| Google Scholar |