Conchodytes maculatus Bruce, 1989

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 : 628

Conchodytes maculatus Bruce, 1989

Conchodytes maculatus Bruce 1989b, p 182 , Figures 1–6 ; Li 2000, p 25, Figure 25 .

Material examined

New Caledonia: MONTROUZIER, Touho Sector , Sand Islet, Touho Pass, stn 1272, 20 ° 49.59S, 165 ° 19.69E, 10 m, hard bottom with mud, September 1993, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN- Na 15885) .

Remarks

Not previously recorded from New Caledonia. Known from intertidal zone to 40 m depth, in association with pearl oysters .

Distribution

Type locality: Australian Northwest Shelf. Also known from Philippines and New Caledonia .

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 25. Periclimenes macrophthalmus Fujino and Miyake, 1970, ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14620). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) right second pereiopod; (c) fingers of left pereiopod pereiopod. Scale bars: 1.41 mm (a); 2.24 mm (b); 0.5 mm (c).