Periclimenes affinis ( Zehntner, 1894 )

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 : 671

Periclimenes affinis ( Zehntner, 1894)

Palaemonella affinis Zehntner 1894, p 208 .

Periclimenes (Harpilius) affinis: Holthuis 1958, p 6 –8, Figure 2 .

Periclimenes affinis: Bruce 1980b, p 2 –8, Figures 1–3 ; Chace and Bruce 1993, p 99; Li 2000, p 149, Figure 180; Davie 2002, p 323; Li and Liu 2004, p 89, Figure 1a–f .

Material examined

Philippines: (i) Maribago, Mactan Island , Cebu, 10 ° 179N, 124 ° 009E, 2–3 m, crinoid washings, coll. P. Bouchet, 9 June 1985, 1 „, 1♀?, 3 juveniles (MNHN-Na 14849); (ii) same, 1♀, 2 juveniles (MNHN-Na 14850); (iii) Dumaran Channel, NE Palawan Islands, 2–3 m, crinoid washings, coll. P. Bouchet, May 1985, 3 „„, 15♀♀ (9 ovig.), 3 juveniles (MNHN-Na 14848) . New Caledonia: (iv) Touho Bank , on crinoids, 28 August 1993, 4 „„, 4♀♀ (ovig.) (MNHN-Na 15858); (v) lagoon, on crinoids, 30 August 1993, 29 spms (7 ovig. ♀♀) (MNHN-Na 15865); (vi) Touho, Kohe, 8 September 1993, 2 „„ (MNHN-Na 15901) .

Hosts

(i) (iii) Comanthina schlegeli (P. H. Carpenter, 1882) ; (ii) Comatella ? stelligera (P. H. Carpenter, 1880), det. A. M. Clark. (vi) Comatella sp. [ Crinoidea, Echinoderma].

Remarks

Previously reported from the Philippines, with 3 ovig. ♀♀ collected in 1908, from Siasi, Sulu Islands ( Chace and Bruce 1993) .

Distribution

Type locality: Ambon, Indonesia . Also known from 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.