Coralliocaris superba ( Dana, 1852 )

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 : 630

Coralliocaris superba ( Dana, 1852)

Oedipus superbus Dana 1852, p 25 .

Oedipus dentirostris: Paulson 1875, p 112 , Plate 14, Figure 7 .

Coralliocaris superba: Stimpson 1860, p 38 ; Hipeau-Jacquotte 1973, p 104; Bruce 1991b, p 264, Figure 26 ; Chace and Bruce 1993, p 77; Li 2000, p 35, Figure 35; Davie 2002, p 309; Li and Liu 2002, p 375, Figure 4a–d .

Material examined

Madagascar: (i) west coast, Toliara (Tuléar), intertidal, coll. A. Crosnier, October 1958, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 14812) . New Caledonia: (ii) MONTROUZIER, Touho (Tie´), coll. B. Richer de Forges , scuba, 5–7 m, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 14811) .

Remarks

The two specimens, which both lack second pereiopods, have rostral dentitions of 5/2 and 6/5, respectively. The ambulatory dactyls have a particularly acute tip to the hoof-shaped ventral process. Previously recorded from New Caledonia in Nouméa and Île Ouen, Baie du Prony ( Monod 1976; Bruce 1991b). Previously recorded from Madagascar (Tuléar) by Hipeau-Jacquotte (1973).

Distribution

Type locality: Tongatabu Island, Tonga. Also known from Red Sea , Mozambique and Madagascar to Indonesia, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Tasman Sea ), eastward to French Polynesia ( Society Islands ) .

Figures

Figure 4. Kemponia ensifrons (Dana, 1852), ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14891). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) anterior carapace; (c) antennule; (d) antenna.

Figure 7. Mesopontonia brevicarpus, new species. (a, d–g) Holotype ovigerous female; (b) paratype male; (c) juvenile (MNHN-Na 14824). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b, c) carapace; (d) antennule; (e) first pereiopod; (f) same, chela; (g) same, apexes of fingers.

Figure 26. Periclimenes novaecaledoniae Bruce, 1967, ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14919), third pereiopod. (a) Distal propod and dactyl; (b) distal corpus and unguis, dactyl; (c) distoventral propodal spine; (d) distal second ventral spine.