Periclimenes soror Nobili, 1904

Li, Xinzheng & Bruce, Alexander J., 2006, Further Indo-West Pacific palaemonoid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonoidea), principally from the New Caledonian region, Journal of Natural History 40 (11 - 12), pp. 611-738 : 721

Periclimenes soror Nobili, 1904

Periclimenes soror Nobili 1904, p 232 .

Periclimenes (Periclimenes) soror: Holthuis 1952a, p 51 –53, Figure 17 .

Periclimenes soror Bruce 1976c, p 299 –306, Figures 1–6 ; Wicksten and Hendrickx 1985, p 571; Chace and Bruce 1993, p 122; Li 2000, p 237, Figure 316; Davie 2002, p 332; Li and Liu 2004, p 95, Figure 7 .

Material examined

New Caledonia: (i) MONTROUZIER, Koumac, 25 m, 26 October 1993, 1 „, 1♀ (MNHN-Na 14924). Loyalty Islands: (ii) ATELIER LIFOU, Lifou, Santal Bay : westsouthwest of Easo Point , stn 1429, 20 ° 47.59S, 167 ° 07.19E, 8–18 m, coral heads, sedimentary channels, 3, 5, 23, and 24 November 2000, 2 „„, 2 ovig. ♀♀ (MNHN-Na 15540) .

Host

Echinaster luzonicus (Grey, 1849) [ Asteroidea, Echinoderma].

Remarks

The specimens had the accessory tooth on the ambulatory dactyls minute, virtually obsolete. The distolateral angle of the proximal segment of the antennular peduncle was strongly bidentate, but tridentate on the left side in the female.

Distribution

Type locality: Djibouti. Also known from the Red Sea, Kenya, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Madagascar, Comoro Islands, Seychelles, Chagos Islands , Malaysia (Sabah), China ( Hong Kong), Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales), Marianas Islands, Caroline Islands, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, Marshall Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia (Society Islands, Tuamotu Islands), and Hawaii. Also known from the East Pacific region , the Gulf of California , Mexico, Panama, and Columbia .

Figures

Figure 1. Palaemonetes atrinubes Bray, 1976, ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14843). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) anterior carapace; (c) distal part of proximal peduncular segment; (d) antennal scale; (e) distal telson; (f) mandible; (g) first pereiopod; (h) same, chela; (i) second pereiopod; (j) same, chela; (k) third pereiopod; (l) same, propod and dactyl; (m) same, distal propod and dactyl.

Figure 2. Harpiliopsis spinigera (Ortmann, 1880), male (MNHN-Na 15838). (a) Second pereiopod; (b) same, fingers.

Figure 3. Kemponia agag (Kemp, 1922), male (MNHN-Na 14877). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) antennal scale; (c) second pereiopod, ischium, merus, and carpus; (d) same, chela; (e) same, fingers; (f) same, article of carpus and chela; (g) proximal fingers; (h) third pereiopod, propod and dactyl; (i) same, distal propod and dactyl.

Figure 4. Kemponia ensifrons (Dana, 1852), ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14891). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) anterior carapace; (c) antennule; (d) antenna.

Figure 5. Kemponia ensifrons (Dana, 1852), ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14891). (a) Second pereiopod; (b) same, chela and carpus; (c) third pereiopod, propod and dactyl; (d) same, distal propod and dactyl.

Figure 6. Kemponia cf. suvadivensis (Borradaile, 1915), ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14926). (a) Carapace; (b) antennal scale; (c) third pereiopod, carpus, propod, and dactyl; (d) same, distal propod and dactyl.

Figure 7. Mesopontonia brevicarpus, new species. (a, d–g) Holotype ovigerous female; (b) paratype male; (c) juvenile (MNHN-Na 14824). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b, c) carapace; (d) antennule; (e) first pereiopod; (f) same, chela; (g) same, apexes of fingers.

Figure 17. Periclimenes crosnieri, new species. (a, c–k) Holotype female; (b) paratype female (MNHN-Na 14943). (a) Anterior carapace; (b) carapace; (c) right eye, lateral view; (d) telson; (e) right antennule; (f) same, peduncle, medial view; (g) right antenna; (h) mandible; (i) maxilla; (j) second maxilliped; (k) third maxilliped.