Engystenopus palmipes Alcock & Anderson, 1894

Chen, Chien-Lin & Chan, Tin-Yam, 2022, New records of spongicolid shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda, Stenopodidea) from Taiwan, Zootaxa 5189 (1), pp. 255-266 : 256

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5189.1.23

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7119563

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Engystenopus palmipes Alcock & Anderson, 1894
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Engystenopus palmipes Alcock & Anderson, 1894 View in CoL

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Engystenopus palmipes Alcock & Anderson, 1894: 149 View in CoL , pl. 9-fig. 1. (Type locality: Trincomalee, Sri Lanka).— Alcock 1901: 144, pl. 2-fig. 3.—A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier 1909: 264.— Holthuis 1946: 45; 1955: 144, fig. 103; 1993: 313, fig. 308.—de Saint Laurent & Cleva 1981: 161, figs. 4–6.— Goy 2010b: 274 View Cited Treatment , fig. 6.— Chen et al. 2016: 482 — Bochini et al. 2020: 6.— Schnabel et al. 2021: 61.

Material examined. Donggang fishing port, Pingtung County, commercial trawler, 3 Mar 2001, about 200 m, 1 male cl 9.2 mm ( NTOU M02475 View Materials ) .

Diagnosis. Rostrum reaching middle of second segment of antennular peduncle; dorsal margin slightly concave, with 10 teeth; ventral margin bearing 1 tooth subdistally. Carapace with large acuminate rostral basal spine; antennal and hepatic spines absent, anterolateral margin with 3 teeth; cervical groove distinct. Cornea narrower than eyestalk and darkly pigmented. First 2 pairs of pereiopods slender; grooming apparatus of first pereiopod well-developed. Dactyli of fourth and fifth pereiopods uniunguiculate, slender. Pleon smooth, first plenoite divided into 2 sections by distinct transverse carina. Second to fifth pleura armed with minute spines on ventral margins. Sixth pleonite widened posteriorly, with 2 minute spines on posteroventral margin. Telson lance-shaped; with 2 longitudinal dorsal ridges, each with 5 large spines; 2 pairs of basal spinules present. Uropods with lateral margin of endopod unarmed, that of exopod serrated with 6 teeth.

Coloration. Body generally reddish, covered with whitish spots ( Goy 2010b).

Distribution. Indo-West Pacific: Madagascar, Sri-Lanka, Australia, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, and now Taiwan, at depths from 174– 640 m.

Remarks. The single Taiwanese specimen, though lacking the third pereiopods, fits well with the descriptions of this species provided by de Saint Laurent & Cleva (1981) and Goy (2010b). The genus Engystenopus is now restricted only to E. palmipes ( Goy 2010b) . The present record slightly extends the northern-most distribution of this monotypic genus to Taiwan.

NTOU

Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Spongicolidae

Genus

Engystenopus

Loc

Engystenopus palmipes Alcock & Anderson, 1894

Chen, Chien-Lin & Chan, Tin-Yam 2022
2022
Loc

Engystenopus palmipes

Schnabel, K. E. & Kou, Q. & Xu, P. 2021: 61
Bochini, G. L. & Cunha, A. M. & Terossi, M. & Almeida, A. O. 2020: 6
Chen, C. - L. & Goy, J. W. & Bracken-Grissom, H. D. & Felder, D. L. & Tsang, L. M. & Chan, T. - Y. 2016: 482
Goy, J. W. 2010: 274
Saint Laurent, M. & Cleva, R. 1981: 161
Holthuis, L. B. 1955: 144
Holthuis, L. B. 1946: 45
Milne-Edwards, A. & Bouvier, E. - L. 1909: 264
Alcock, A. 1901: 144
Alcock, A. & Anderson, A. R. 1894: 149
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