Anchistus miersi ( De Man, 1888 )

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 : 626

Anchistus miersi ( De Man, 1888)

Harpilius Miersi De Man 1888, p 274 , Plate 17, Figures 6–10 .

Anchistus miersi: Borradaile 1898, p 387 ; Bruce 1978a, p 279; Chace and Bruce 1993, p 72; Li 2000, p 11, Figure 11 ; Davie 2002, p 305; Li 2004a, p 67.

Material examined

Madagascar: northwest coast, Nosy Be (Andilah), intertidal, in Tridacna spp. , coll. A Crosnier, 1959, 2 „„, 2♀♀ (1 ovig.), 1 juvenile (MNHN-Na 14807) .

Remarks

In all specimens, the lateral posterior telson spines were situated subterminally on the dorsum of the telson, and the female specimen with two pairs of median posterior telson spines. Previously recorded from Madagascar (Nosy Be) by Bruce (1978a).

Distribution

Type locality: Mergui Archipelago. Known from Red Sea and eastern Africa to the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia (Queensland), and eastward to French Polynesia ( Tuamotu Islands and Gambier Islands ) .

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.

Figure 8. Mesopontonia brevicarpus, new species, holotype ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14824). (a) Major second pereiopod; (b) same, chela; (c) same, fingers; (d) minor second pereiopod; (e) same, chela; (f) third pereiopod; (g) same, propod and dactyl; (h) same, distal propod and dactyl.

Figure 9. Palaemonella komaii, new species, holotype male (MNHN-Na 15482). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) anterior carapace; (c) telson; (d) eye, dorsal view; (e) antennule; (f) same, distal shorter free ramus of upper flagellum; (g) antenna.

Figure 10. Palaemonella komaii, new species, holotype male (MNHN-Na 15482). (a) Mandible; (b) maxillula; (c) maxilla; (d) first maxilliped; (e) second maxilliped; (f) third maxilliped.

Figure 11. Palaemonella komaii, new species. (a–c, g–i) Holotype male (MNHN-Na 15482); (d–f) paratype male (MNHN-Na 15600). (a) First pereipod; (b) same, chela; (c) same, coxa, basis and ishium; (d) second pereiopod, right; (e) same, chela; (f) third pereiopod, left; (g) fifth pereiopod, left; (h) same, distal propodal subsegment and dactyl; (i) uropod.