Antarctic and Subantarctic Decapod Crustacea

摘要: One of the remarkable aspects Antarctic benthic fauna is almost complete absence crustacean order Decapoda. Many characteristic groups within this are apparently completely absent, or at least not yet recorded. As one author has recently put it (Broch, 1961:27), ‘everybody who worked in Waters been struck by peculiar crabs, lobsters, shrimps and prawns etc. shallow waters’. Although exemplifies situation, strictly correct as (Natantia) two circumpolar species form a distinct feature shallow-water such low-Antarctic areas (in sense Ekman, 1953) South Georgia an extremely high-Antarctic area McMurdo Sound. Thus S.O. Reptantia, comprising crayfish, anomurans, hermit crabs true that absent region though represented Polar Arctic seas. The malacostracan Stomatopoda, mantis shrimps, similarly Antarctic, case also Arctic.