Kemponia andamanensis ( Kemp, 1922 )

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 : 642

Kemponia andamanensis ( Kemp, 1922)

Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) andamanensis Kemp 1922, p 204 , Figures 54–57.

Periclimenes (Harpilius) andamanensis: Holthuis 1952a, p 79 .

Periclimenes andamanensis: Bruce 1977c, p 269 ; Bruce 2003, p 229; Li 1996, p 229, Figure 7 ; Li 1997, p 238; Li 2000, p 156, Figure 192; Li 2001, p 81; Li 2004a, p 68; Li and Liu 2004, p 91, Figure 2 .

Kemponia andamanensis: Bruce 2004, p 12 .

Kemponia cf. andamanensis: Li et al. 2004, p 529 , Figure 16 .

Material examined Madagascar: (i) Nosy Be, shallow water, coll. A. Crosnier, 1966, 2 „„, 3 ovig. ♀♀

(MNHN-Na 15969); (ii) same, 1 „, 1♀ (MNHN-Na 15967). New Caledonia: (iii) Station Saint Vincent ( SASV2 ), Canal d’Amenée, coll. IFREMER, 5 August 1996, 4 „„, 9 ovig. ♀♀ (MNHN-Na 15824); (iv) western coast, Ouano , trawl, 1 m, seagrass, 1–5 m, 22 December 1998, 9 „„, 16♀♀ (4 ovig.) (MNHN-Na 15828). Fiji: (v) Viti Levu, West Lagoon, SUVA 2, stn CP66, 37 m, 17 ° 45.19S, 177 ° 13.79E, 21 October 1998, 1 „, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15465) .

Remarks

Not previously recorded from Fiji and New Caledonia. The present record extends its bathymetric range to 37 m depth.

Distribution

Type locality: Andaman Islands . Also known from Madagascar, Indonesia, China , South China Sea , Japan, Australia (Queensland), New Caledonia , and Fiji.

Figures

Figure 2. Harpiliopsis spinigera (Ortmann, 1880), male (MNHN-Na 15838). (a) Second pereiopod; (b) same, fingers.

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