GNATHOPHYLLIDAE Dana, 1852

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 : 617

Family GNATHOPHYLLIDAE Dana, 1852

Gnathophyllum americanum Guérin-Méneville, 1855 Gnathophyllum americanum Guérin-Méneville 1855 , p viii, Plate 2, Figure 14 ; Chace and Bruce 1993, p 136; Li 1997, p 226, Figure 2 ; Davie 2002, p 250.

Material examined

Philippines: MUSORSTOM II, shore station, (i) stn 12, opposite Mactan Marine Station, high tide, late afternoon, 0.2–2 m, 9 December 1980, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15913); (ii) island opposite Mactan Marine Station , reef flat, 2♀♀ (ovig.) (MNHN-Na 15914) . New Caledonia: (iii) lagoon, reef, Poindimie´, north of Tie´, associated with anemone, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 14832). Loyalty Islands: (iv) ATELIER LIFOU, Lifou , Santal Bay : Easo , near wharf, stn 1406, 20 ° 46.859S, 167 ° 07.759E, intertidal, hard substrate, 10/13–14/16/ 18 November 2000, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15544) .

Parasites

(ii) Bopyrid in branchiae chamber of non-ovigerous female.

Remarks

Not previously recorded from Loyalty Islands. The association with a sea anemone (iii) may have been accidental.

Distribution

Type locality: Cuba. Also known from Red Sea to South Africa, Mauritius, and eastward through Indo-Pacific region to South China Sea ( Xisha Islands ), Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Tasman Sea ), Loyalty Islands , French Polynesia ( Tuamotu Islands , Tahiti , Rikitea ); western Atlantic from Bermuda and southern Florida throughout Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea ; eastern Atlantic in Canary Islands .

Figures

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

Figure 14. Periclimenes aleator Bruce, 1991, ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14946). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) telson; (c) right (major) second pereiopod; (d) same, fingers; (e) third pereiopod, distal propod and dactyl.