Nematopalaemon tenuipes ( Henderson, 1893 )

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 : 620

Nematopalaemon tenuipes ( Henderson, 1893)

Leander tenuipes Henderson 1893, p 440 , Plate 40, Figures 14 , 15 .

Palaemon (Nematopalaemon) tenuipes: Holthuis 1950, p 44 , Figure 7 .

Nematopalaemon tenuipes: Holthuis 1980, p 108 ; Chace and Bruce 1993, p 39.

Material examined

Madagascar: (i) west coast, in region of Maintirano, coll. A. Crosnier, 1959, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 14828); (ii) same, 1♀ (MNHN-Na 14829) . Indonesia: (iii) Moluccas, Ambon, Baguala Bay , 19 October 1982, 3♀♀ (2 ovig.) (MNHN-Na 14827) .

Remarks

Indonesian specimens have the rostral formula 2+5+?/6 + in the female and 2+3+1/6, 2+4+1/ 5 in the ovigerous females. Both of the Maintirano specimens, with the rostrum broken, with seven rostral crest teeth. The ovigerous female (i) with the distal part distal to antennular peduncle lost, the female (ii) with the distal part except the apex linked with the basal part. Not previously recorded from Madagascar and Indonesia.

Distribution

Type localities: Bombay and Madras , India and Gulf of Martaban , Burma . Also known from South Africa, Madagascar, India, Thailand, China, Philippines , and Indonesia.

Figures

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 14. Periclimenes aleator Bruce, 1991, ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14946). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) telson; (c) right (major) second pereiopod; (d) same, fingers; (e) third pereiopod, distal propod and dactyl.

Figure 15. Periclimenes calcaratus Chace and Bruce, 1993, male (MNHN-Na 14886). (a) Anterior carapace; (b) antennule; (c) same, distolateral angle of proximal pedunclar segment; (d) antenna; (e) third pereiopod, distal propod and dactyl; (f) same, distal corpus and unguis; (g) distoventral propodal spine.