Platycaris latirostris Holthuis, 1952

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 : 726

Platycaris latirostris Holthuis, 1952

Platycaris latirostris Holthuis 1952a, p 173 , Figures 85, 86; Barnard 1962, p 243; Bruce

1966c, p 1, Figures 1–5 ; Bruce 1976d, p 47, Figure 4 ; Bruce 1985b, p 5, Figures 4 , 5 ; Li

2000, p 254, Figure 337.

Material examined

Madagascar: Tuléar , Grand Récif, coll. R. Hipeau-Jacquotte, 1968, 10 „„, 8♀♀ (6 ovig.) (MNHN-Na 15833) .

Host

Galaxea sp. [ Scleractinia ].

Remarks

First recorded from Madagascar by Barnard (1962).

Distribution

Type locality: Indonesia . Also known from Zanzibar, Tanzania, Madagascar, Indonesia, Australia (Queensland), and Fiji .

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.