Typton Manningi and T. Capricorniae, new species, New pontoniine shrimps from Northern Queensland, with a review of the Indo-West pacific species of typton costa (Decapoda: Palaemonidae)

Abstract

Two new pontoniine shrimp species of the little known genus Typton Costa, T. manningi and T. capricorniae, from Queensland, Australia, are described and illustrated. The Indo-West Pacific species of the genus are reviewed, and a key for their identification is provided. All six Indo-West Pacific species of the genus, associates of sponges and sparsely reported from East Africa to Japan, are known from Australian waters.