Allaxius clypeatus ( De Man, 1888 )

Poore, Gary C. B. & Collins, David J., 2009, Australian Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 66 (2), pp. 221-287 : 237

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.24199/j.mmv.2009.66.20
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scientific name	Allaxius clypeatus ( De Man, 1888 )
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Allaxius clypeatus ( De Man, 1888) View in CoL

Axius clypeatus De Man, 1888: 470 View in CoL , pl. 20 fig. 2.

Axiopsis (Axiopsis) clypeata .— De Man, 1925b: 70.

Allaxius clypeatus View in CoL .— Sakai and de Saint Laurent, 1989: 73–74.

Material examined. Qld , Yonge Reef, Lizard Island (14˚38'S, 145˚38'E), 8 Nov 1975, AM P25014 (male, cl. 4.5 mm) .

Remarks. Allaxius clypeatus is known from reefs in Indonesia and is here reported from Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef. The rostrum is narrow and as long as the eyestalks, with two pairs of lateral teeth. The median gastric carina has a blunt tooth anteriorly and a broad triangular plate posteriorly. The submedian carina comprises two blunt teeth and the lateral gastric carina just one tooth. The tapering telson has four lateral spines and a minute posterolateral one. The uropodal exopod has three spines in a longitudinal ridge, four lateral spines, three small spines along the transverse suture and a larger mesiodistal spine. A long moveable spine lies lateral to the oval second article of the exopod. The uropodal endopod has a strong lateral shoulder, four spines in a longitudinal ridge, and one lateral and two distolateral spines.