Lebbeus yaldwyni Kensley, Tranter & Griffin, 1987

Poore, Gary C. B., 2010, Two crested and colourful new species of Lebbeus (Crustacea: Caridea: Hippolytidae) from the continental margin of Western Australia *, Zootaxa 2372, pp. 126-137 : 135

Lebbeus yaldwyni Kensley, Tranter & Griffin, 1987 ( Fig. 1D)

Lebbeus yaldwyni Kensley, Tranter & Griffin, 1987: 304−309 , figs. 15−17, frontispiece B (colour photo).

Material examined. Holotype: NSW, east of Sydney , 33°43'S, 151°51–53'E, 450 m, AM P26561 (ov. female) . Paratypes: NSW, same data as holotype, AM P33109 (1 female); east of Sydney , 33°51'S, 151°45’E – 33°47'S, 151°48'E, 470 m, AM P21825 (1 female) .

Distribution. Off New South Wales, Australia, continental slope, 33– 36°S, 190– 470 m.

Remarks. Lebbeus yaldwyni was distinguished from the Japanese L. compressus by the absence of an epipod on pereopod 2 and differences in rostral tip shape ( Kensley et al. 1987). Hayashi (1992), however, noted both species have epipods on pereopod 2 and listed additional distinguishing characters (summarised in Table 1).