Kemponia agag ( Kemp, 1922 )

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 : 639-641

Kemponia agag ( Kemp, 1922)

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Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) agag Kemp 1922, p 197 , Figures 47–50, Plate VII, Figure 9 . Periclimenes agag: Li 2000, p 150 , Figure 181.

Kemponia agag: Bruce 2004, p 10 .

Material examined

New Caledonia: (i) Senez Reef , 7 m, coll. P. Bouchet, 7 September 1992, 1 „ (MNHN- Na 14877); (ii) Ouano. scuba, 0.1 m, April 1995, 2 ovig. ♀♀ (MNHN-Na 15810) .

Remarks

Previously reported from New Caledonia (Nouméa) by Ledoyer (1984). Distribution

Type locality: Port Blair, Andaman Islands. Also known from Red Sea , Australia (Queensland), New Caledonia and Marshall Islands .

Figures

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 9. Palaemonella komaii, new species, holotype male (MNHN-Na 15482). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) anterior carapace; (c) telson; (d) eye, dorsal view; (e) antennule; (f) same, distal shorter free ramus of upper flagellum; (g) antenna.