Periclimenes magnificus Bruce, 1979

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 : 705

Periclimenes magnificus Bruce, 1979

Periclimenes magnificus Bruce 1979b, p 195 , Figures 1–5 ; Bruce 1996, p 237; Fransen 1989,

p 143, Figures 4b, c , 5e , 6i–m , 7i–p ; Li 2000, p 212, Figure 274; Li et al. 2004, p 545,

Figure 30 ; Marin et al. 2004, p 209, Figure 11 .

Material examined New Caledonia: (i) Vie Bay , scuba, 10 m, coll. P. Laboute, 8 June 1990, 1 ovig. ♀

(MNHN-Na 15841); (ii) Îlot Sainte Marie, cf. antenne radio, scuba, 11 m, coll. P. Laboute, 8 June 1990, 1 ovig. ♀; (iii) Îlot Maitre, stn 64, 22 ° 19.359S, 166 ° 25.859W, 21 m, coll. Alan Myers, 10 November 1995, 1 „, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15864); (iv) Îlot Crouy, 3 m, coll. Berthault, 15 June 1996, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15878).

Hosts

(ii) Goniopora sp. ; (iii) sea anemone [ Scleractinia ; Actinaria, Coelenterata].

Remarks

Previously recorded from New Caledonia by Bruce (1996).

Distribution

Type locality: Heron Island, Queensland, 26–29 m. Also known from Vietnam , South China Sea, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland), and New Caledonia .

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.

Figure 6. Kemponia cf. suvadivensis (Borradaile, 1915), ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14926). (a) Carapace; (b) antennal scale; (c) third pereiopod, carpus, propod, and dactyl; (d) same, distal propod and dactyl.

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 11. Palaemonella komaii, new species. (a–c, g–i) Holotype male (MNHN-Na 15482); (d–f) paratype male (MNHN-Na 15600). (a) First pereipod; (b) same, chela; (c) same, coxa, basis and ishium; (d) second pereiopod, right; (e) same, chela; (f) third pereiopod, left; (g) fifth pereiopod, left; (h) same, distal propodal subsegment and dactyl; (i) uropod.

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.