PRELIMINARY DESCRIPTIONS OF NINE NEW STOMATOPOD CRUSTACEANS FROM CORAL REEF HABITATS IN INDONESIA AND AUSTRALIA

Preliminary accounts are presented of nine new species of stomatopods representing three families. Gonodactylidae: three species of Gonodactylellus; one of Gonodactylopsis, the third species of the genus; and one of Hoplosquilla, the second species of the genus. Protosquillidae: one species of Chorisquilla and two of Haptosquilla. Nannosquillidae: one of Nannosquilla, the first species of the genus to be recorded from outside the Americas. All of these species are very small, none exceeding 30 mm in total length as adults.