Open WL Archief (OWA)

• The generic system of Pérez-Farfante & Kensley (1997) has been used for the Penaeoid shrimps rather than the one in d’Udeken d’Acoz (1999)
• The hippolytid genera Eualus and Thoralus are still separated, because if the mandible palpus character is removed as a primary one, the whole shrimp classification gets disputable. I do not think that such a discussion is possible at the present level of knowledge.
• In stenopodoid shrimps two families instead of one (viz. Spongicolidae and Stenopodidae) have been recognised instead of one, which is in accordance with Holthuis (1993).
• For the Callianassidae the classification of Sakai (1999b) has been used.
• The system proposed by d’Udekem d’Acoz (1999) for the polybiine genera of Portunidae has not been used, as I cannot see any progress in lumping all the genera together. Before such major changes are implemented a thorough revision must take place and the arguments be fully exposed and discussed. For the time being a certain “conservatism“ seems to be more prudent.

Because of new publications some species names had to be changed and new species had to be added:

• Galil (1999) recorded Melicertus hathor (Burkenroad, 1959) as a new Lessepsian migrant.
• Sakai (1999b) described Callianassa whitei as a new species from the Adriatic Sea.
• Sakai (1999a) examined the classical collection of J. F. W. Herbst kept at the Berlin Museum and in consequence some names of well known European crabs had to be changed: Pisa corallina is now P. hirticornis, Liocarcinus arcuatus is now L. navigator, and Xantho incisus is now X. hydrophilus.

References

• Galil, B. S. (1999): Melicertus hathor Burkenroad, 1959 - a Red Sea penaeid prawn new to the Mediterranean. -- Crustaceana, 72(9): 1226-1228.
• Sakai, K. (1999a): J. F. W. Herbst-Collection of decapod Crustacea of the Berlin Zoological Museum with remarks on certain species. -- Naturalists, Tokushima biol. Lab., 6: 1-45.
• Sakai, K. (1999b): Synopsis of the family Callianassidae, with keys to subfamilies, genera and species, and the description of new taxa (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea). -- Zool. Verh., 326: 1-152.
• 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. -- Patrimoines naturels (M.N.H.N./S.P.N.), 40: I-X, 1-383; Paris.