Kemponia cf. suvadivensis ( 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 : 649-650

Kemponia cf. suvadivensis ( Borradaile, 1915)

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Periclimenes (Falciger) suvadivensis Borradaile 1915, p 212 ; Borradaile 1917, p 375, Plate 55, Figure 16 .

Periclimenes suvadivensis: Li 2000, p 239 , Figure 317; Davie 2002, p 332.

Kemponia suvadivensis: Bruce 2004, p 19 .

Material examined

New Caledonia: west coast of Le Cap, in mangroves, coll. B. Richer de Forges , 2 December 1992, 1 „, 2 ovig. ♀♀ (MNHN-Na 14926) .

Remarks

The specimens were collected with Palaemon sp. All the specimens lack second pereiopods, so the identification must be considered as provisional. Not previously recorded from New Caldedonia. The specimens have rostral dentition of 1+7/3, the rostrum greatly exceeds the antennular peduncle, particularly in the male, is slender, about 1.35 times the carapace length, as opposed to 1.15 times in the K. suvadivensis type material, the scaphocerite lamella is subquadrate distally and well exceeded by the distolateral tooth. The third pereiopod dactyl is about 9.0 times longer than the basal width and about 0.36 of the propod length, as opposed to 0.2 times in the type material; the proportion of length to breadth of the propod are similar but the present material has fewer ventral spines, four as opposed to six.

Distribution

Type locality: Suvadiva Atoll , Maldives . Also reported from Australia (Northern Territory) and New Caledonia .

Figures

Figure 6. Kemponia cf. suvadivensis (Borradaile, 1915), ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14926). (a) Carapace; (b) antennal scale; (c) third pereiopod, carpus, propod, and dactyl; (d) same, distal propod and dactyl.

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