Pliopontonia furtiva Bruce, 1973

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 : 726

Pliopontonia furtiva Bruce, 1973

Pliopontonia furtiva Bruce 1973a, p 99 –108, Figures 1–5 , Plate 1; Bruce 1991b, p 266; Chace and Bruce 1993, p 128; Li 2000, p 258, Figure 341; Davie 2002, p 336.

Material examined

New Caledonia: Canal Woodin, 15 m, scuba, coll. Hamel, 19 November 1992, 1 „ (MNHN-Na 14929).

Host

Ricordia florida (Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1860) [ Corallimorpharia , Anthozoa].

Remarks

Previously reported from New Caledonia in Atoll de Huon ( Bruce, 1991b). The specimen has a rostral dentition of 7/0 and has both second pereiopods: the ambulatory pereiopods are held in the dorsiflexed position as previously noted. The association with Ricordia represents a new host record.

Distribution

Type locality: Ras Iwatine , Kenya . Also known from the Seychelles, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), Solomon Islands, New Caledonia , and Marshall Islands.

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 2. Harpiliopsis spinigera (Ortmann, 1880), male (MNHN-Na 15838). (a) Second pereiopod; (b) same, fingers.

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 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.