Jocaste lucina ( Nobili, 1901 )

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 : 639

Jocaste lucina ( Nobili, 1901)

Coralliocaris lamellirostris Stimpson 1860, p 38 ; De Man 1902, p 842, Plate 26, Figure 55.

Coralliocaris lucina Nobili 1901, p 5 ; Borradaile 1917, p 383; Kemp 1922, p 276, Figure 102; Barnard 1950, p 799, Figure 151i–m.

Jocaste lucina: Holthuis 1952a, p 193 –195, Figure 94 (partim); Patton 1966, p 278, Figure 3a ; Bruce 1969a, p 301, Figure 2 ; Bruce 1974b, p 199; Bruce 1979a, p 239; Bruce 1981b, p 89; Fransen 1994, p 110, Figure 64; Li 1997, p 233; Li 1998, p 222, Figures 12 , 13 ; Li 2000, p 70, Figure 71; De Grave 2000, p 126.

Material examined

Loyalty Islands: ATELIER LIFOU, Lifou, Santal Bay, (i) between Huca Hutighé Islet and the shore, stn 1421, 20 ° 52.49S, 167 ° 08.59E, 4 m, coarse sand on flatstone, 26–27 November 2000, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15460); (ii) in front of Ngoni, stn 1457, 20 ° 46.89S, 167 ° 02.759E, 5–10 m, dark overhang and boulders, 27 November 2000, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15459) .

Remarks

Not previously recorded from Loyalty Islands. Associated with Acropora , rarely Pocillopora , Stylophora .

Distribution

Type locality: Eritrea. Also known from Egypt, Israel, Sudan, Yemen, Oman, Kenya, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Mozambique, Comoro Islands, Madagascar, Seychelles, La Réunion, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Singapore, Vietnam, South China Sea , Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland), Coral Sea , Marianas Islands, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, Marshall Islands, Fiji, Cook Islands and Johnson Atoll .

Figures

Figure 2. Harpiliopsis spinigera (Ortmann, 1880), male (MNHN-Na 15838). (a) Second pereiopod; (b) same, fingers.

Figure 3. Kemponia agag (Kemp, 1922), male (MNHN-Na 14877). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) antennal scale; (c) second pereiopod, ischium, merus, and carpus; (d) same, chela; (e) same, fingers; (f) same, article of carpus and chela; (g) proximal fingers; (h) third pereiopod, propod and dactyl; (i) same, distal propod and dactyl.

Figure 12. Palaemonella pusilla Bruce, 1975, male (MNHN-Na 14839). (a) Carapace; (b) rostrum; (c) telson; (d) same, distal; (e) antennule; (f) antenna.

Figure 13. Palaemonella pusilla Bruce, 1975, male (MNHN-Na 14839). (a) Mandible; (b) same, incisor process; (c) first pereiopod; (d) second pereiopod; (e) same, fingers; (f) same, carpus; (g) endopod of second pleopod.