Periclimenes kempi Bruce, 1969

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 : 697

Periclimenes kempi Bruce, 1969

Periclimenes kempi Bruce 1969b, p 260 ; Bruce 1981b, p 80, Figure 2 ; Fransen 1994, p 125; Bruce and Coombes 1995, p 131; De Grave 2000, p 136; Li 2000, p 200, Figure 256.

Material examined

New Caledonia: lagoon, Five Mile Channel , scuba, 15–20 m, associated with alcyonarian Nephthya sp. , coll. C. Vadon, 13 September 1978, 2 „„, 1♀ (MNHN-Na 15823) .

Host

Nephthya sp. [ Alcyonacea ].

Distribution

Type locality: Red Sea coast of Egypt , 1 m. Known also from Kenya, Zanzibar, Seychelles , Andaman Islands , Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Cobourg Peninsula, Great Barrier Reef) , New Caledonia , and Fiji.

Figures

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