Drawing by Cedric d`Udekem d`Acoz	Crinoid shrimp Hippolyte catagrapha. In News 27 December 2005 we reported that the paper describing the "crinoid shrimp", discovered by SURG members, was being described. Named Hippolyte apsyctos, the species name chosen was not to the author's liking, and it has been named Hippolyte catagrapha instead. The etymology of catagrapha is as follows: "Catagrapha is the feminine of the Latin adjective catagraphus, which means painted, coloured, figured. The name alludes to the complex and variable colour pattern of the species." The description, by Cedric d`Udekem d`Acoz, of the zoology department, Troms Museum, Norway, is in "New records of Atlantic Hippolyte, with the description of two new species, and a key to all Atlantic and Mediterranean species." and appears in Zoosystema, 29(1), 2007.
References: New records of Atlantic Hippolyte, with the description of two new species, and a key to all Atlantic and Mediterranean species, Cedric d`Udekem d`Acoz, Zoosystema, 29(1), 2007.
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