Harpiliopsis beaupresii ( Audouin, 1825 )

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 : 635

Harpiliopsis beaupresii ( Audouin, 1825)

Palaemon Beaupresii Audouin 1825, p 91 .

Harpilius Beaupresii : Heller 1861, p 27.

Harpiliopsis beaupresi: Borradaile 1917, p 324 , 379, Plate 55, Figure 21 ; Chace and Bruce 1993, p 82; Li 2000, p 61, Figure 65; Davie 2002, p 312; Li and Liu 2003, p 154, Figure 1 .

Material examined Madagascar: (i) Ambataloaka, Nosy Be, coll. A. Crosnier, September 1958, 1 ovig. ♀

(MNHM-Na 14817). La Réunion: (ii) no date, coll. S. Ribes, 1 juvenile (MNHN-Na 14818). Loyalty Islands : ATELIER LIFOU, (iii) Lifou , Santal Bay: in front of Huca Hutighé Islet, stn 1434, 20 ° 52.59S, 167 ° 08.19E, 5–20 m, hard bottom, 6 November 2000, 2 „„ (MNHN-Na 15445) .

Host

Pocillopora damicornis (L., 1758) [ Pocilloporidae , Scleractinia ].

Remarks

Both specimens had a rostral dentition of 5/2. Previously reported from both La Réunion ( Bruce 1983c) and Madagascar ( Hipeau-Jacquotte 1973), but not Loyalty Islands.

Distribution

Type locality: Egyptian Red Sea. Also known from Gulf of Aqaba , Sudan, Ethiopia ( Eritrea), Yemen, Kenya, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Madagascar, Seychelles, La Réunion, Mauritius, Maldives, Chagos Islands , Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands , Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, South China Sea , Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland), Coral Sea , Loyalty Islands , Fiji, Marshall Islands, USA ( French Frigate Shoal , Johnson Atoll, Hawaii), and Easter Island .

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 21. Periclimenes hertwigi Balss, 1913. (a, h) Ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14899); (b, e, g, i) male (MNHN-Na 14899); (c, d, f) ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14896); j, k, male (MNHN-Na 14901). (a) Anterior carapace; (b) rostrum; (c) distal antennal scale; (d–f) first pereiopod, chela, lateral view; (g, h) second pereiopod, chela; (i) same, fingers; (j) third pereiopod, distal propod and dactyl; (k) same, distoventral angle of corpus.