Palaemonella pottsi ( Borradaile, 1915 )

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 : 663-665

Palaemonella pottsi ( Borradaile, 1915)

Periclimenes (Falciger) pottsi Borradaile 1915, p 212 .

Palaemonella pottsi: Kemp 1922, p 126 –127; Chace and Bruce 1993, p 89; Li 2000, p 103, Figure 113; Davie 2002, p 316; Li and Liu 2003, p 159, Figure 5a, b ; Li 2004a, p 68.

Material examined

Philippines: (i) MUSORSTOM II, shore station, stn 11, opposite Mactan Marine Station, scuba, 5–18 m, 9 December 1980, 1 „ (MNHN-Na 15954); (ii) Dumaran Channel, NE Palawan Islands, 2–3 m, coll. P. Bouchet, May 1985, 6 „„, 8♀♀ (6 ovig.) (MNHN-Na 14834); (iii) same, 1 „, 5♀♀ (1 ovig.) (MNHN-Na 14838); (iv) Maribago, 10 ° 179N, 124 ° 009E, Mactan Island , Cebu Prov., 3–5 m, coll. P. Bouchet, 9 June 1985, 2 „„, 3♀♀ (2 ovig.) (MNHN-Na 14835); (v) same, 2–3 m, 1 „ (MNHN-Na 14836); (v) same, 1 „, 2 juveniles (MNHN-Na 14837) . New Caledonia: (vi) Touho Bank , 28 August 1993, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15863); (vii) lagoon, 30 August 1993, 1 „, 5♀♀ (2 ovig.) (MNHN-Na 15889). Loyalty Islands: ATELIER LIFOU, Lifou, Santal Bay (viii) Gaatcha Bay, stn 1436, 20 ° 55.59S, 167 ° 04.29E, 10–20 m, coral head, 10 November 2000, 1 „ (MNHN-Na 15596); (ix) between Cap Mande and Cap Lefèvre, stn 1452, 20 ° 54.69S, 167 ° 02.19E, 2–25 m, scuba, 20 and 22 November 2000, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15483) .

Hosts

(i) (ii) (v) Comanthina schlegeli (P. H. Carpenter, 1881) ; (iv) Comatella ? stelligera (P. H. Carpenter, 1888); (iii) washings from Comatella nigra (P. H. Carpenter, 1888) , Comanthus bennetti (J. Müller, 1841) , Comaster multibrachiatus (P. H. Carpenter, 1888) . Identified by A. M. Clark. (vi) (vii) crinoids.

Remarks

Previously reported from Moalboal Island, Philippines ( Bruce 1989a; Markham 1989), and from Nouméa, New Caledonia ( Bruce 1970c). Not previously recorded from Loyalty Islands. A well-known associate of the crinoid Comanthina schlegeli .

Distribution

Type locality: Mabuaig and Murray Islands, Torres Strait. Also known from Zanzibar, Singapore, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland) , New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, and Marshall Islands .

Figures

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.