Periclimenes lepidus Bruce, 1978

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 : 699-700

Periclimenes lepidus Bruce, 1978

Periclimenes lepidus Bruce 1978a, p 244 –252, Figures 20–24 ; Li 2000, p 205, Figure 264.

Material examined

Comoro Islands: (i) BENTHEDI, north Pamanzi Island , stn 32 R, 12 ° 45.19S, 45 ° 17.99E, 15–20 m, slope with corals going to a sandy area with Heterocongridae , 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN- Na 15942) . Madagascar: (ii) northwest coast, near Nosy Be , Entrée Bank of SE slope, 40 m, coll. P. Laboute, 10 September 1970, 1 „, 6♀♀ (3 ovig.) (MNHN-Na 14915) . New Caledonia: (iii) MONTROUZIER, Touho Channel , 35 m, from antipatharians, coll. B. Richer de Forges, 31 August 1993, 9 spms (7 ovig. ♀♀) (MNHN-Na 14914) .

Remarks

Not previously recorded from Comoro Islands and New Caledonia. Previously recorded from Madagascar, from Nosy Be ( Bruce 1978a), so the Madagascar specimens are topotypic.

Distribution

Type locality: Nosy Be , Madagascar , 40 m. Also known from Kenya, Seychelles , and Maldives.

Figures

Figure 20. Periclimenes forgesi, new species, holotype ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14928). (a) Third maxilliped; (b) first pereiopod; (c) same, chela; (d) second pereiopod; (e) same, fingers; (f) third pereiopod; (g, h) same, distal propod and dactyl; (i) uropod.

Figure 21. Periclimenes hertwigi Balss, 1913. (a, h) Ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14899); (b, e, g, i) male (MNHN-Na 14899); (c, d, f) ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14896); j, k, male (MNHN-Na 14901). (a) Anterior carapace; (b) rostrum; (c) distal antennal scale; (d–f) first pereiopod, chela, lateral view; (g, h) second pereiopod, chela; (i) same, fingers; (j) third pereiopod, distal propod and dactyl; (k) same, distoventral angle of corpus.

Figure 22. Periclimenes involens Bruce, 1996, ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14912), carapace.

Figure 23. Periclimenes lanipes Kemp, 1922. a, c, ovigerous female; (b) male (MNHN-Na 14913). (a, b) Carapace; (c) eye.

Figure 24. Periclimenes loyautensis, new species, holotype ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14947). (a) Carapace; (b) telson; (c) same, distal part; (d) eye, distal view; (e) minor second pereiopod; (f) same, fingers; (g) third pereiopod, propod and dactyl; (h) same, distal propod and dactyl.