Periclimenes laccadivensis (Alcock and Anderson, 1884)

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 : 697

Periclimenes laccadivensis (Alcock and Anderson, 1884)

Palaemonella laccadiversis Alcock and Anderson 1894, p 157 .

Periclimenes laccadivensis: Kemp 1922, p 152 , Figure 19 ; Bruce 1979a, p 225; Bruce 1991a, p 301, Figure 1 ; Bruce 1992, p 69, Figure 20 ; Li 2000, p 202, Figure 259.

Material examined

New Caledonia: (i) LITHIST, stn DW05, 23 ° 38.29S, 167 ° 42.99E, 433–500 m, Stylaster Bank, 10 August 1999, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15881); (ii) NORFOLK 1, Norfolk Ridge, Introuvable Bank, stn DW1697, 24 ° 399S, 168 ° 389E, 569–616 m, coll. Lozouet, Boisselier, Richer-IRD, 24 June 2001, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15930) .

Remarks

Previously recorded from New Caledonia by Bruce (1991a).

Distribution

Type locality: Laccadive Sea, 770–1353 m. Known also from western Indian Ocean, South China Sea, New Caledonia , and off Australia (Tasmania) .

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 19. Periclimenes forgesi, new species, holotype ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14928). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) anterior carapace; (c) eye; (d) antennule; (e) antenna; (f) mandible; (g) maxillula, upper lacinia and palp; (h, i) same, lower lacinia; (j) maxilla; (k) first maxilliped; (l) second maxilliped.

Figure 20. Periclimenes forgesi, new species, holotype ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14928). (a) Third maxilliped; (b) first pereiopod; (c) same, chela; (d) second pereiopod; (e) same, fingers; (f) third pereiopod; (g, h) same, distal propod and dactyl; (i) uropod.