Nematocarcinus proximatus Spence Bate 1888

• Main Authors: D'Acoz, Cédric D'Udekem, Degrave, Sammy
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Nematocarcinidae; Nematocarcinus; Nematocarcinus proximatus; Antarc*; Antarctic; Crozet Islands; Marion Island; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5951648; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AE87808E14FF95FF6AEED9FEEDBCDA

Nematocarcinus proximatus Spence Bate, 1888 Originally recorded from west of Valparaiso, Japan, Arafura Sea, off Marion Island (Spence Bate 1888). Tiefenbacher (1990b), who examined the syntypes, considered this species as a synonym of N. longirostris and according to Gorny et al. (1992), the specimens from Marion Island are actually N. lanceopes (see above). Burukovsky (2000a) considered the type series of N. proximatus as comprising two species, with the Southeast Pacific specimens identified as N. tenuipes Spence Bate, 1888. He designated as lectotype for N. proximatus a specimen from Challenger station 146, near Marion Island, 46°46′S, 45°31′E, 2475 m. Komai & Komatsu (2016) considered the type series of N. proximatus as containing further species, with Japanese specimens being N. longirostris . Published as part of D'Acoz, Cédric D'Udekem & Degrave, Sammy, 2018, A new genus and species of large-bodied caridean shrimp from the Crozet Islands, Southern Ocean (Crustacea, Decapoda, Lipkiidae) with a checklist of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic shrimps, pp. 201-240 in Zootaxa 4392 (2) on page 219, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4392.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1195302