Acanthaxius

Acanthaxius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Family:	Axiidae
Genus:	Acanthaxius; Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989
Type species
	; Sakai, 1987

Acanthaxius is a genus of mud lobster native to the Indo-Pacific oceans.^[2] It has a slender rostrum which is longer than the eyestalks, is and has seven spines^[3] and has a depth range of 228–438 metres (748–1,437 ft).^[4] It includes the following species:^[1]^[4]

(Miyake & Sakai, 1967)
(Squires, 1979)
Ngoc-Ho, 2006
Kensley & Chan, 1998
Ngoc-Ho, 2006
Poore & Collins, 2009
Poore & Collins, 2009
Kensley & Chan, 1998
(Boesch & Smalley, 1972)
Kensley, 1996
(Yokoya, 1933)
Poore & Collins, 2009
(Sakai, 1987)
(Miyake & Sakai, 1967)
Sakai, 1994
(Rathbun, 1906)

Three species of Acanthaxius have been found off the Solomon Islands.^[5]

References[]

^ ^a ^b Gary Poore (2010). "Acanthaxius Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
^ Zoological Catalogue of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. 1998. p. 450. ISBN 978-0-643-06791-2. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
^ Brian Kensley (1996). "A new species of the axiid shrimp genus Acanthaxius from the Caribbean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 109 (1): 70–74.
^ ^a ^b Gary C. B. Poore & David B. Collins (2009). "Australian Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea)" (PDF). Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 66 (2): 221–287. doi:10.24199/j.mmv.2009.66.20.
^ Nguyen Ngoc-Ho (2006). "Three species of Acanthaxius Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989, including two new to science, from the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia (Crustacea, Thalassinidea, Axiidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1240: 57–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1240.1.2.

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[WoRMS-1] Gary Poore (2010). "Acanthaxius Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 12 June 2012.

[2] Zoological Catalogue of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. 1998. p. 450. ISBN 978-0-643-06791-2. Retrieved 12 June 2012.

[3] Brian Kensley (1996). "A new species of the axiid shrimp genus Acanthaxius from the Caribbean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 109 (1): 70–74.

[Poore-4] Gary C. B. Poore & David B. Collins (2009). "Australian Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea)" (PDF). Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 66 (2): 221–287. doi:10.24199/j.mmv.2009.66.20.

[5] Nguyen Ngoc-Ho (2006). "Three species of Acanthaxius Sakai & de Saint Laurent, 1989, including two new to science, from the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia (Crustacea, Thalassinidea, Axiidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1240: 57–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1240.1.2.

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