Brachycarpus biunguiculatus ( Lucas, 1846 )

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 : 618

Brachycarpus biunguiculatus ( Lucas, 1846)

Palaemon biunguiculatus Lucas 1846, p 45 , Plate 4, Figure 4 .

Brachycarpus biunguiculatus: Kemp 1925, p 312 –314; Holthuis 1952b, p 3 –10, Plate 1, Figures a–q; Fransen 1987, p 509, Figure 5 ; Bruce 1996, p 200, Figures 1a–c , 28a , 30 .

Material examined

La Réunion: (i) MD 32 , stn CP97, 19 ° 41.49S, 54 ° 08.79E, 55 m, pebbles, large slabs of dead reef corals, 28 August 1982, 1 „, 1♀ (MNHN-Na 14942) . New Caledonia: (ii) MONTROUZIER, Touho (Tie´), 5–7 m, coll. B. Richer de Forges, September 1993, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 14808) .

Distribution

Type localities: Oran and Bone, Algeria. Also known from the Red Sea , Zanzibar, Sri Lanka, Ryukyu Islands , Caroline Islands, Chesterfield Islands , New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, Wake Island, and Hawaii. Also known extensively in the Eastern Pacific , Eastern and Western Atlantic , and western Mediterranean region .

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 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 28. Periclimenes paraleator, new species, holotype ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14945). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) eye, dorsal view; (c) same, lateral view; (d) antennular peduncle; (e) antenna; (f) third pereiopod, propod and dactyl; (g) same, distal propod and dactyl.

Figure 30. Periclimenes pseudalcocki, new species, holotype female (MNHN-Na 14855). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) telson; (c) same, distal part; (d) eye, dorsal view; (e) antennular peduncle; (f) antenna; (g) third pereiopod; (h) same, distal propod and dactyl, lateral view; (i) same, medial view.