Dasycaris zanzibarica Bruce, 1973

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 : 632

Dasycaris zanzibarica Bruce, 1973

Dasycaris zanzibarica Bruce 1973b, p 247 –257, Figures 1–6 ; Bruce 1991b, p 265, Figure 27 ; Bruce 1996, p 214; Li 2000, p 45, Figure 46; Davie 2002, p 310.

Material examined

Madagascar: west coast, Pracel Bank , 25 m, beam trawl, on brown mud, coll. A. Crosnier, June 1959, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 14815) .

Remarks

Not previously recorded from Madagascar. Also reported from 39 m at Atoll de Surprise, New Caledonia, and otherwise recorded only from shallow water.

Distribution

Type locality: Changu Island , Zanzibar . Also known from Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia, Great Barrier Reef), 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 27. Periclimenes paralcocki, new species, holotype ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14865). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) anterior carapace; (c) eye, dorsal view; (d) antennular peduncle; (e) antenna; (f) left third pereiopod; (g) same, distal propod and dactyl; (h) telson; (i) same, distal part.