Periclimenella petitthouarsi ( Audouin, 1825 )

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 : 670

Periclimenella petitthouarsi ( Audouin, 1825)

Palaemon Petitthouarsii Audouin 1825, p 91 .

Periclimenes Petitthouarsi : Borradaile 1898, p 381.

Periclimenella petitthouarsii: Duris and Bruce 1995, p 645 –655, Figures 13–18 ; Li 2000, p 143, Figure 177.

Material examined

Madagascar: Ambalatoaka, Nosy Be, coll. A. Crosnier, September 1958, 1 „ (MNHN-Na 14846).

Remarks

Previously recorded from Madagascar, at Nosy Be by Bruce (1977c, 1978a). The specimen has a rostral dentition of 1+6/4, and possesses both second pereiopods.

Distribution

Type locality: Egypt. Also known from Red Sea, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Eritrea, Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Comoro Islands, Madagascar, and Persian Gulf .

Figures

Figure 13. Palaemonella pusilla Bruce, 1975, male (MNHN-Na 14839). (a) Mandible; (b) same, incisor process; (c) first pereiopod; (d) second pereiopod; (e) same, fingers; (f) same, carpus; (g) endopod of second pleopod.

Figure 14. Periclimenes aleator Bruce, 1991, ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14946). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) telson; (c) right (major) second pereiopod; (d) same, fingers; (e) third pereiopod, distal propod and dactyl.

Figure 15. Periclimenes calcaratus Chace and Bruce, 1993, male (MNHN-Na 14886). (a) Anterior carapace; (b) antennule; (c) same, distolateral angle of proximal pedunclar segment; (d) antenna; (e) third pereiopod, distal propod and dactyl; (f) same, distal corpus and unguis; (g) distoventral propodal spine.

Figure 16. Periclimenes crosnieri, new species, holotype female (MNHN-Na 14943), body, lateral view.

Figure 17. Periclimenes crosnieri, new species. (a, c–k) Holotype female; (b) paratype female (MNHN-Na 14943). (a) Anterior carapace; (b) carapace; (c) right eye, lateral view; (d) telson; (e) right antennule; (f) same, peduncle, medial view; (g) right antenna; (h) mandible; (i) maxilla; (j) second maxilliped; (k) third maxilliped.

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.