Cuapetes tenuipes ( Borradaile, 1898 )

Li, Xinzheng, Cleva, Régis & Poupin, Joseph, 2012, Report on some caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Mayotte, southwest Indian Ocean, Zootaxa 3162, pp. 1-30 : 12-13

Cuapetes tenuipes ( Borradaile, 1898)

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Periclimenes tenuipes Borradaile, 1898: 384 . — Li, 2000: 242. — De Grave, 2000: 139. — Debelius, 2001: 188, unnumbered photo.

Periclimenes borradailei Rathbun, 1904: 34 .

Periclimenes (Falciger) borradailei — Borradaile, 1917: 324, 372.

Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) tenuipes — Kemp, 1922: 220, pl. 8, fig. 11.

Periclimenes (Harpilius) tenuipes — Holthuis, 1952: 84.

Kemponia tenuipes — Bruce, 2004: 19; 2007: 121. — Li and Bruce, 2006: 650 . — Li et al., 2007: 228, fig. 108. — Marin and Savinkin, 2007: 182, fig. 94D. — Li, 2008b: 239, fig. 7. — Chadwick et al., 2008: 216, 239, colour plate 2, fig. A.

Cuapetes tenuipes — Okuno, 2009: 68.

Material examined. St 3, 02/11/2009, 19h–21h, Trévani fringing reef at night, 12°43'43.19"S, 45°11'43.97"E, coll. KUW fieldwork, snorkelling and scuba diving, 1–8 m, coral grounds at night, 1 male (LC 4.0 mm), MNHN-Na 16041, (most pereiopods lost except for left first, second (minor) and fifth pereiopods left pereiopods), 1 ovigerous female (LC 4.6 mm, LT 16 mm), MNHN-Na 16060, 1 ovigerous female (LC 5.5 mm, LT 33 mm)(both second pereiopods lost, both first pereiopods damaged) MNHN-Na 17565; St 8, 04/11/2009, 15h30–17h30, lagoon close to Great north-eastern reef, 12°41'58.41"S, 45°13'11.47"E, coll. KUW fieldwork, scuba diving 6–8 m, sandy bottom, coral boulders, 1 male (LC 6.2 mm, LT 63 mm), 1 ovigerous female (LC 5.5 mm), MNHN-Na 16045; St 12c, 10/11/2009, 20h30–22h30, La Prévoyante reef at night, 12°41'34.70"S, 45° 9'59.99"E, coll. KUW fieldwork, scuba diving 6–12 m, coral grounds at night, 2 males (one is LC 6.2 mm, LT, 80 mm), MNHN-Na 16047; St 19, 11/11/ 2009, 15h–17h, islet Handrema, north, 12°40'21.00"S, 45° 6'49.92"E, coll. KUW fieldwork, scuba diving 6–10 m, sediment suction pump, fringing reef and outer slope, coral grounds, 1 ovigerous female (LC 4.3 mm), MNHN-Na 16048.

Colouration (fig. 8). Body transparent, with big red markings on carapace and pleurons of abdomen, fingers and distal palms and subapical merus of second pereiopods and distal part of telson red, as photo of Debelius (2001).

Distribution. Type locality New British, Papua New Guinea. Also known from Jordan, Kenya, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Seychelles, La Réunion, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands, China, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Timor Sea ( Hibernia Reef), Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland), Caroline Islands, New Caledonia, Marshall Islands, Fiji.

Remarks. The specimens agree with previous descriptions and illustrations. The species was not recorded from Mayotte with certainty. The specimen of MNHN-Na 16041 was collected together with 3 ovigerous females of Jocaste japonica ( Ortmann, 1890) (MNHN-Na 17063) and 1 female of Palaemonella rotumana ( Borradaile, 1898) (MNHN-Na 16049) at Station 3.

Exoclimenella maldivensis Ď uriš and Bruce, 1995 (fig. 9)

Exoclimenella maldivensis Ďuriš and Bruce, 1995: 622 , figs. 1–5. — Li, 2000: 50, fig. 53; 2008a: 206. — De Grave, 2000: 123. — Debelius, 2001: 189, unnumbered photo. — Li and Bruce, 2006: 633. — Bruce, 2007: 120. — Poupin and Juncker, 2010: 278, unnumbered photo.

Material examined. St 12, 06/11/2009, 10h–12h30, La Prévoyante reef, 12°41'34.70"S, 45° 9'59.99"E, coll. KUW fieldwork, scuba diving 6–11 m, sediment suction pump, Acropora coral grounds, 1 male (LC 3.5 mm, LT 30 mm), MNHN-Na 17059.

Colouration (fig. 9). Body semi-transparent in life, yellowish, with brown circle on second pereiopods, eye, eyestalk, distal part of segments of legs, and distal tailfan with red markings, as photographed by Debelius (2001) and Poupin and Juncker (2010).

Distribution. Type locality Maldives, Timor Sea. Also known from Thailand, Japan, Loyalty Islands.

Remarks. The specimen agrees well with the description and illustration of Ďuriš and Bruce (1995) with exception of two ventral rostral teeth. The species was not previously recorded from Mayotte.

Exoclimenella sudanensis Ď uriš and Bruce, 1995

Periclimenes sibogae — Edwards and Emberton, 1980: 236. (non Holthuis, 1952)

Exoclimenella sudanensis Ďuriš and Bruce, 1995: 631 , figs. 6–8. — Li, 2000: 51, fig. 55.

Material examined. St 4, 02/11/2009, 14h–16h, La Prévoyante reef, 12°41'33.84"S, 45°10'0.24"E, coll. KUW fieldwork, scuba diving 6–10 m, corals and blocks of dead corals, 1 male (LC 3.2 mm), MNHN-Na 17573. Distribution. Type locality Sudan, Red Sea. Now also known from Mayotte.

Remarks. The specimen agrees with the description and illustration of Ďuriš and Bruce (1995). The species has been known only from its type locality before.