taxonID	type	description	language	source
03933A1CFFDAFFBE5FC2A18BCB18FCCD.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Small shrimp of subcylindrical body form. Rostrum well developed, compressed, dorsally and ventrally dentate. Carapace smooth, glabrous, inferior orbital angle obsolete, orbit generally feebly developed, with small supraorbital tubercle, epigastric and hepatic spines absent, antennal spine present, anterolateral lateral angle of branchiostegite rounded. Abdomen smooth, glabrous, first tergite with dorsal anterior median lobe, pleura with posterior margins rounded. Telson with two pairs of dorsal spines, three pairs of posterior spines. Eye normal, with globular cornea. Antennule normal. Antenna with basicerite unarmed, scaphocerite well developed. Epistome unarmed. Mandible without palp, molar process robust, incisor reduced to acute process; maxillula with bilobed palp, upper lacinia spinose, lower lacinia setose; maxilla with simple palp, basal endite bilobed, scaphognathite normal; maxillipeds without special features, exopodal flagella slender with four long plumose terminal setae and several shorter adjacent setae. First maxilliped with bilobed epipod, second maxilliped with small subrectangular epipod without podobranch, third maxilliped with ischium fused to basis, coxa with small rounded lateral plate, without medial process, small arthrobranch present. First pereiopods slender, chela with fingers short, stout, scaphoid, dactylus with simple bidentate tip, fixed finger simply acute distally, cutting edges entire, basi-coxal articulation with protuberant process. Second pereiopods well developed, chelae unequal, dissimilar, major chela with palm densely spinose, dactylus spinose, without molar process, cutting edge entire, tip acute; fixed finger without proximal fossa, longitudinally grooved, medial margin entire, lateral margin feebly crenulate, merus and ischium ventrally spinose; minor chela with palm spinose, dactylus spinose, compressed, tip bidentate, fingers closing with shearing action, fixed finger similar, cutting edge entire. Ambulatory pereiopods normal, dactyli short, biunguiculate, without basal process, propodus spinulate. Uropod with protopodite unarmed, with distolateral tooth with spine medially.	en	Bruce, A. J. (2010): A revision of the systematic position of Periclimenaeus spinimanus Bruce, 1969 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) and the designation of Anisomenaeus gen. nov. *. Zootaxa 2372 (1): 338-340, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.25, URL: https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2372.1.25
03933A1CFFDAFFBE5FC2A18BCB18FCCD.taxon	type_taxon	Type species. Periclimenaeus spinimanus Bruce, 1969, by present designation and monotypy.	en	Bruce, A. J. (2010): A revision of the systematic position of Periclimenaeus spinimanus Bruce, 1969 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) and the designation of Anisomenaeus gen. nov. *. Zootaxa 2372 (1): 338-340, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.25, URL: https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2372.1.25
03933A1CFFDAFFBE5FC2A18BCB18FCCD.taxon	etymology	Etymology. From an - not, and iso -, the same (Greek), and part of the name Periclimenaeus first used by Borradaile (1915), that is, different from Periclimenaeus. Gender masculine. Systematic position. Closely resembling Periclimenaeus Borradaile, in which it was originally placed, but immediately distinguishable by the absence of a dactylar molar process and a fixed finger fossa on the major second pereiopod chela, characters that are diagnostic of the genus Periclimenaeus. Anisomenaeus gen. nov. also differs from Periclimenaeus in the very dense spinulation of the second pereiopod chelae. The fingers of the minor second pereiopod also close with a shearing action, a character not occurring in Periclimenaeus although typical of the genera Typton Costa and Epipontonia Bruce. The genus contains only a single species.	en	Bruce, A. J. (2010): A revision of the systematic position of Periclimenaeus spinimanus Bruce, 1969 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) and the designation of Anisomenaeus gen. nov. *. Zootaxa 2372 (1): 338-340, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.25, URL: https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2372.1.25
03933A1CFFDBFFBE5FC2A744CF61FA0E.taxon	materials_examined	Type. holotype, male, USNM 168529. Type locality. Ras Afir, Somalia.	en	Bruce, A. J. (2010): A revision of the systematic position of Periclimenaeus spinimanus Bruce, 1969 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) and the designation of Anisomenaeus gen. nov. *. Zootaxa 2372 (1): 338-340, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.25, URL: https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2372.1.25
03933A1CFFDBFFBE5FC2A744CF61FA0E.taxon	biology_ecology	Host. No data. Bathymetric range. 68 – 73 m.	en	Bruce, A. J. (2010): A revision of the systematic position of Periclimenaeus spinimanus Bruce, 1969 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) and the designation of Anisomenaeus gen. nov. *. Zootaxa 2372 (1): 338-340, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.25, URL: https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2372.1.25
03933A1CFFDBFFBE5FC2A744CF61FA0E.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Known from type locality only.	en	Bruce, A. J. (2010): A revision of the systematic position of Periclimenaeus spinimanus Bruce, 1969 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) and the designation of Anisomenaeus gen. nov. *. Zootaxa 2372 (1): 338-340, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.25, URL: https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2372.1.25
03933A1CFFDBFFBE5FC2A744CF61FA0E.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The presence of an anterior median dorsal lobe of the first abdominal tergite in Anisomenaeus is a feature that is also present in Periclimenaeus robustus Borradaile, 1915, the type species of the genus Periclimenaeus, and seven other species of that genus: P. gorgonidarum (Balss), P. uropodialis Barnard, P. palauensis Miyake & Fujino, P. ardeae Bruce, P. djiboutensis Bruce, P. lobiferus Bruce, P. orontes Bruce; but is lacking in the 43 other Indo-West Pacific species of the genus. It has also not been reported in any other pontoniine genus. Anisomenaeus gen. nov. can be distinguished from other sponge associated pontoniine taxa by the following key. Genera of suspected but unproven association with sponges are given in parentheses.	en	Bruce, A. J. (2010): A revision of the systematic position of Periclimenaeus spinimanus Bruce, 1969 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) and the designation of Anisomenaeus gen. nov. *. Zootaxa 2372 (1): 338-340, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.25, URL: https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2372.1.25
