Palaemonella tenuipes Dana, 1852

Li, Xinzheng, 2008, Report on some species of Palaemonidae (Crustacea, Decapoda) from French Polynesia, Zoosystema 30 (1), pp. 203-252 : 217

Palaemonella tenuipes Dana, 1852

Palaemonella tenuipes Dana, 1852: 25 . — Naim 1980: annex 1, tab. 3. — Odinetz 1983: 207. — Odinetz- Collart & Richer de Forges 1985: 201. — Chace & Bruce 1993: 87, 89. — Poupin 1998: 15. — Li 2000: 107, 108, fig. 117. — Bruce 2003: 222.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Austral Is. Rapa I., Hiri Bay, BENTHAUS, malacologist fieldwork, stn 9, 27°37.3’S, 144°22.2’W, 3-24 m, coral, 6.XI.2002, 1 ♂ (MNHN-Na 15513). — Teruametitoi Point, BENTHAUS, malacologist fieldwork, stn 33, 27°34.8’S, 144°18.6’W, 30 m, dead coral, 19.XI.2002, 1 ♀ (MNHN-Na 15514).

DISTRIBUTION. — Type locality: Sulu Sea. Previously also known from Red Sea, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Madagascar, Seychelles, la Réunion, Maldives, Chagos Is , Malaya , South China Sea , Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Western Australia , Marshall Is , Fiji Is , Tuvalu, French Polynesia (Society Is, Tuamotu Is), Palmyra and Wake Is, and Johnson Atoll ; littoral, 0-30 m depth. Not previously recorded from the Austral Is.

REMARKS

Specimen from Rapa, Hiri Bay lacks both second pereiopods, whilst specimen from Teruametitoi Point lacks all the ambulatory pereiopods, as well as the second pair, but a separated second pereiopod is preserved in the tube, which can confidently be assigned to this species.