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03D531324A1FFFA5FF56C84AFAF2F8D8.text	03D531324A1FFFA5FF56C84AFAF2F8D8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Urocaris Stimpson 1860	<div><p>Genus Urocaris Stimpson, 1860</p> <p>Urocaris Stimpson, 1860: 39.— Kingsley, 1880: 380. — Rathbun, 1902: 126. — Borradaile, 1917: 353. — Holthuis, 1993: 164.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Small sized shrimps of subcylindrical body form. Carapace smooth; rostrum well developed, compressed, with well developed dorsal carina with numerous acute dorsal teeth, lateral carinae feebly developed, ventral carina obsolete, ventral margin feebly dentate distally: orbit feebly developed, inferior orbital angle produced, blunt, knob-like, without ventral flange; supraorbital teeth and spines, epigastric and hepatic spines present, antennal spine absent:; antennule normally developed: antenna with basicerite with lateral tooth, scaphocerite well developed; eye with globular cornea, stalk elongate; epistome with short slender acute median process, hemispherical lateral bosses; mandible without palp, molar process robust, dentate, incisor processes normal; maxillula with bilobed palp, laciniae moderately slender; maxilla with simple palp, basal endite deeply bilobed, coxal endite obsolete, scaphognathite normal; first maxilliped with simple palp, basal endite broad, coxal endite feebly separated, exopod with well developed flagellum with broad caridean lobe, epipod large, triangular, feebly bilobed; second maxilliped with normal endopod, exopod similar to first maxilliped, without accessory lobe, coxa with subrectangular epipod, without podobranch; third maxilliped with slender endopod, ischiomerus fused with basis, exopod as in second maxilliped, coxa with well developed oval lateral plate, with single small multi-lamellar arthrobranch; fourth thoracic sternite without median process, with two transverse ridges, posterior ridge with paired submedian knobs; first pereiopods slender, chela with simple fingers with entire cutting edges; second pereiopods well developed, unequal, palm smooth, fingers without molar process or fossa, without dactylar flanges, merus and carpus unarmed; ambulatory pereiopods slender, dactyls biunguiculate; abdomen smooth, elongate, third segment slightly posterodorsally produced, sixth segment length subequal to CL, pleura rounded; telson with two pairs of dorsal spines and three pairs of posterior spines; uropod with protopodite posterolaterally unarmed, exopod with small distolateral tooth, small mobile spine.</p> <p>Etymology. From “ουρα, cauda, καριζ, squilla”; probably in reference to the long abdomen of the type species (Holthuis, 1993). Gender, feminine.</p> <p>Systematic Position. Urocaris Stimpson is naturally particularly closely related to the genus Periclimenes Costa, 1844, in which it has long been included. It is particularly closely related to the species of Periclimenes in the restricted genus, senso Bruce (2004). The genus Urocaris is distinguished from Periclimenes primarily by the absence of an antennal spine, a character, not found in the majority of pontoniine shrimp genera, that is shared by the species referred to Paraclimenes Bruce, 1994. The latter is an Indo-West Pacific genus found in deep water conditions. Urocaris is easily distinguished from Paraclimenes by the rostrum, lacking a ventral carina, with few small acute distal teeth only in the former genus, and with a well developed ventral carina with 3–4 well developed, more centrally placed, acute teeth in the latter.</p> <p>Urocaris is particularly similar to the Periclimenes species of the aesopius -species group, most noticeably in the form of the rostrum, slender, with a low dentate dorsal carina and obsolete ventral carina, with few small acute distal teeth only. The absence of the antennal spine in Urocaris immediately distinguishes it from all species of the Periclimenes aesopius species group. The knob-like inferior orbital angle in Urocaris, without a ventral flange, further separates these genera. As noted in the Etymology above, the reference of the generic name to the long abdomen of the type species (Holthuis, 1993) indicates a further similarity to species of the aesopius group, in which the abdomen is also particularly well developed in comparison to the cephalothorax: it is further echoed in the specific name of the type species. The relative size of the abdomen compared with the carapace contrasts strongly with the genus Periclimenes (Fig. 4).</p> <p>The anteriorly directed median process and the hemispherical lateral bosses of the epistome (Fig. 3A) are unusual features without parallel in any other pontoniine genus so far reported. It is not present in aesopius species group, e.g. Periclimenes holthuisi (pers. obs.). A median process, however, has been reported in the un-related genera Bresilia spp. and Encantada (Bruce, 2004). Its functional importance is unknown..</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D531324A1FFFA5FF56C84AFAF2F8D8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Bruce, A. J.	Bruce, A. J. (2007): The resurrection of the pontoniine genus Urocaris Stimpson, 1860, (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Zootaxa 1632 (1): 61-67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1632.1.5, URL: https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1632.1.5
03D531324A1DFFA0FF56CF88FD7DF804.text	03D531324A1DFFA0FF56CF88FD7DF804.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Urocaris longicaudata Stimpson, Santa Domingo, CL 1860	<div><p>Urocaris longicaudata Stimpson, 1860</p> <p>(Figs. 1–3)</p> <p>Urocaris longicaudata Stimpson, 1860, 39. — Rathbun, 1900: 155. — Rathbun, 1902: 126..</p> <p>Periclimenes (Periclimenes) longicaudatus — Kemp, 1922: 135,.140, 141–142. — Holthuis, 1951: 23, 26–31, pl. 6a–m, pl. 8 m (full synonymy). — Williams, 1965: 42, fig. 35. – Nizinski, 2003: 104.</p> <p>Periclimenes longicaudatus — Chace, 1972: 37. —Williams, 1984: 86. — Chace and Bruce, 1993: 58. — Li, 2000: 207– 218, fig. 268 (full synonymy). —De Grave, et al., 2007: (to be inserted.).</p> <p>Material examined. (1) 1 spm, (without abdomen, dissected), stn. 127, #81, Barahona, Santa Domingo, 6 July 1933, AMNH #8711.</p> <p>(2). 3 spms, juvenile, fragmentary, Santa Domingo, 5 August 1937, AMNH #8710.</p> <p>(3). 2 spms (no second pereiopods), stn 196, Barahona, Santa Domingo, 5 August 1937, #98, AMNH #8712</p> <p>(4). 13 spms (macerated and fragmentary), Anclote River Channel, Florida, 3.0– 5.4 m, 10 November 1941, AMNH 10087.</p> <p>(5). 1 (macerated), Anclote River Channel, Florida, 17 November 1941, AMNH 10106.</p> <p>(6). 3 spms, Isla de Cayo Cochinos Menor, Honduras, Thalassia bed, coll. D. Livingstone, OUMNH-ZC 2004-19-0006.</p> <p>(7). 12 spms (two males dissected), stn. 57, Man-O-War <a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-60.551666&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.32035" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -60.551666/lat 11.32035)">Bay</a> Tobago, approx, GPS 11°19.221' N 60° 33.100' W, 10 m, 18 September 2003, night light trap, over Caulerpa prolifera bed, coll. S. De Grave, OUMNH-ZC. 2004-22-034.</p> <p>Description: The specimens correspond closely to the detailed description and illustrations provided by Holthuis (1951). A detailed re-description is therefore unnecessary. Some points may be noted that were not previously mentioned.</p> <p>Dissected specimen (sex?, CL 2.5 mm) with rostrum (Fig. 2A) with six dorsal teeth, with short interdental setae, first tooth situated over posterior orbital margin, ventral margin convex, with ventral carina obsolete, sparsely setose, with single very small acute tooth distally; carapace with epigastric spine, inferior orbital angle (Fig. 2B, 3B) strongly produced, rounded in lateral view, bilaterally compressed, antennal spine absent, hepatic spine well developed, at about 0.16 of CL, well below level of inferior orbital angle; antennule with small ventromedial tooth at about 0.3 of length of proximal segment, without proximo-dorsal protuberance, upper flagellum biramous with 8 proximal segments fused, shorter ramus with 2 free segments, about 16 groups of aesthetascs; basicerite similarly without proximo-dorsal protuberance; third thoracic sternite with feeble transverse carina, slightly thickened in midline, fourth thoracic sternite without median process, with two convex transverse ridges anteriorly, posterior ridge with pair of small submedian knobs, fifth with low transverse ridges posterior to second pereiopod coxae (Fig. 3D), posterior sternites unarmed; third pereiopod with slender dactylus (Fig. 2C) about 0.28 of propod length, unguis distinct, slender, about 5.0 times longer than basal width, 0.5 of corpus length, corpus about 3.0 times longer than basal width with well developed slender distal accessory tooth, about 0.65 of unguis length, ventral margin concave; propod sparsely setose, with pair of long distoventral spines, about 0.66 of dactylar corpus length, with three pairs of similar ventral spines.</p> <p>Type: Syntype, BMNH Reg. No. 61.45 (Evans, 1967).</p> <p>Type locality: “ Coast of Carolina ”.</p> <p>Bathymetric range: Shallow littoral waters, to 11 m (Holthuis, 1951).</p> <p>Habitat: Among sea grasses (De Grave et al, 2007).</p> <p>Distribution: Between Cape Hatteras, North Carolina and São Paulo, Brazil (Nizinski, 2003).</p> <p>Remarks: Urocaris longicaudata is a moderately common shallow water inhabiting species and apparently free-living among sea grasses. The close morphological similarity to species of the aesopius group suggests that there may be a tenuous association with some coelenterates.</p> <p>The mandibles of the dissected Tobago specimen are asymmetrical, the right incisor process has four stout teeth distally in an oblique row, with the largest tooth laterally, the next largest medially, with the central pair smaller, the medial margin of the process is quite unarmed. On the left the distal teeth are damaged and there may have been only two, or three: the medial margin of the process has four well developed slender acute denticles (Fig. 3E), larger distally than proximally.</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D531324A1DFFA0FF56CF88FD7DF804	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Bruce, A. J.	Bruce, A. J. (2007): The resurrection of the pontoniine genus Urocaris Stimpson, 1860, (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Zootaxa 1632 (1): 61-67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1632.1.5, URL: https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1632.1.5
