Deepwater caridean shrimps of the families Oplophoridae and Pasiphaeidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Western Australia, with an appendix on a lophogastridan mysid (Mysidacea)

Abstract

This paper reports on 19 species of caridean shrimps of the families Oplophoridae and Pasiphaeidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) collected by deepwater trawls off Western Australia. Among them, four species (Acanthephyra eximia, Eupasiphaea latirostris, Glyphus marsupialis and Pasiphaea tarda) are new to the Australian fauna. Occurrence of the bathypelagic lophogastridan mysid Gnathophusia ingens, new to the Western Australian fauna, is reported in an appendix to this paper.