Anchistus custos ( Forskål, 1775 )

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 : 625

Anchistus custos ( Forskål, 1775)

Cancer custos Forskål 1775 , p xxi, 94.

Harpilius inermis Miers 1884, p 291 , Plate 32, Figure B.

Anchistus inermis: Borradaile 1898, p 387 .

Anchistus custos: Holthuis 1952a, p 105 –109, Figures 43, 44; Chace and Bruce 1993, p 72; Bruce 1996, p 205; Li 2000, p 7, Figure 8 ; Davie 2002, p 305; Li and Liu 2002, p 371, Figure 1 ; Li et al. 2004, p 528.

Material examined

Madagascar: Tuléar , coll. R. Hipeau-Jacquotte, (i) 19 March 1968, 84 specimens (spms) (36 ovig. ♀♀) (MNHN-Na 15958); (ii) 50 spms (MNHN-Na 15970) . New Caledonia: (iii) MONTROUZIER, Koumac , scuba, coll. B. Richer de Forges , 6 September 1993, 2 „„, 3 ovig. ♀♀ (MNHN-Na 14806); (iv) lagoon, Île Ouen-Prony Bay, stn 69, 22 ° 239S, 166 ° 329E, 13 m, coll. B. Richer de Forges, no date record, 1 „ (MNHN-Na 11433[e]); (v) Nouméa, associated with ‘‘grand Pinna ’’, coll. J. Risbec (Th. Monod Collection number 1779), 3 „„, 2 ovig. ♀♀ (MNHN-Na 15941) .

Host

(i) (ii) Atrina sp. [ Pinnidae , Mollusca].

Remarks

Previously recorded from New Caledonia at Saint Vincent Bay ( Bruce 1996).

Distribution

Type locality: Al Luhayyah , Yemen . Known from Red Sea and eastern Africa to Philippines , southward to Australia (South Australia), and eastward to the Caroline Islands and Fiji .

Figures

Figure 1. Palaemonetes atrinubes Bray, 1976, ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14843). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) anterior carapace; (c) distal part of proximal peduncular segment; (d) antennal scale; (e) distal telson; (f) mandible; (g) first pereiopod; (h) same, chela; (i) second pereiopod; (j) same, chela; (k) third pereiopod; (l) same, propod and dactyl; (m) same, distal propod and dactyl.

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.