Palaemonella dolichodactylus Bruce, 1991

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 : 656

Palaemonella dolichodactylus Bruce, 1991

Palaemonella dolichodactylus Bruce 1991b, p 232 , Figures 6f–l , 7 ; Bruce 1991a, p 301; Li 2000, p 101, Figure 110.

Material examined Fiji: SUVA 2, Viti Levu , (i) Northeast Lagoon, stn BS 20, 18 ° 10.29S, 178 ° 30.99E, 14 m ,

15 October 1998, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15481); (ii) South Lagoon , stn BS 35, 18 ° 08.19S, 178 ° 25.39E, 16 m, coll. B. Richer de Forges , 18 October 1998, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15480); (iii) West Lagoon , stn CP 66, 17 ° 45.19S, 177 ° 13.79E, 37 m, coll. B. Richer de Forges , 21 October 1998, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15479).

Remarks

The specimens with the dactyl of ambulatory pereiopods about 12 times longer than proximal deep, propod obscurely segmented, but all of them with the posteroventral angle of fifth abdominal somite armed with acute tooth. Not previously recorded from Fiji. See also remarks on Palaemonella komaii sp. nov.

Distribution

Type locality: Lagoon Est , New Caledonia , 65–70 m. Also known from the Norfolk Ridge, 250 m ( Bruce 1991b) and Fiji .

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 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.