Periclimenes ceratophthalmus Borradaile, 1915

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 : 679

Periclimenes ceratophthalmus Borradaile, 1915

Periclimenes (Corniger) ceratophthalmus Borradaile 1915, p 211 .

Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) ceratophthalmus: Kemp 1922, p 172 .

Periclimenes (Periclimenes) ceratophthalmus: Kemp 1925, p 324 , Figure 18 .

Periclimenes ceratophthalmus: Chace and Bruce 1993, p 106 ; Li 2000, p 167, Figure 206; Davie 2002, p 325.

Material examined

New Caledonia: (i) MONTROUZIER, 1993, Touho-Kohe, 15 m, scuba, on comatulid crinoid, coll. B. Richer de Forge, 7 September 1993, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 14887). Loyalty Islands: (ii) ATELIER LIFOU, Lifou, Santal Bay : north of Cap Aimé Martin (5Acadro), stn 1447, 20 ° 45.89S, 167 ° 01.659E, 17–31 m, scuba, 17 and 22 November 2000, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15535) .

Remarks

Not previously recorded from New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands. The single sample of (i) has a rostral dentition of 4/1 and has a single detached second pereiopod only. The cornea has an elongated terminal papilla and the dorsal telson spines are minute.

Distribution

Type locality: Hulule , Malé Atoll, Maldives. Also reported from Kenya, Zanzibar, Seychelles, Maldives, Indonesia, Australia (Queensland), Caroline Islands, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, and Loyalty Islands .

Figures

Figure 18. Periclimenes crosnieri, new species. (a–f, i) Holotype female; (g, h) paratype female (MNHN-Na 14943). (a) First pereiopod; (b) same, chela; (c) major second pereiopod; (d) same, fingers; (e) minor second pereiopod; (f) third pereiopod; (g) same, propod and dactyl; (h) same, distal propod and dactyl; (i) uropod.