Coralliocaris macrophthalma (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837)

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 : 629

Coralliocaris macrophthalma (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837)

Pontonia macrophthalma H. Milne Edwards 1837, p 359 .

Coralliocaris macrophthalma Borradaile 1917, p 383 ; Holthuis 1952a, p 17; Chace and Bruce 1993, p 47, 77; Bruce 1998, p 30.

Coralliocaris graminea: Bruce 1977a, p 204 , Figure 1 ; Li 2000, p 33.

Material examined

New Caledonia: lagoon, Amédée Reef flat, from seagrass, coll. C. Vadon, 17 September 1978, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15862) .

Remarks

Not previously recorded from New Caledonia.

Distribution

Type locality: seas of Asia. Also known from Israel , Red Sea, Seychelles, Saya de Malha 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.