Kemponia elegans ( Paulson, 1875 )

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 : 643

Kemponia elegans ( Paulson, 1875)

Anchistia elegans Paulson 1875, p 113 , Plate 17, Figure 1 .

Periclimenes (Falciger) elegans: Borradaile 1917, p 371 .

Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) elegans: Kemp 1922, p 215 , Figures 60–62.

Periclimenes (Harpilius) elegans: Holthuis 1952a, p 81 , Figure 31 .

Periclimenes elegans: Bruce 1971a, p 7 ; Bruce 1983b, p 884; Fransen 1994, p 122; Bruce and Coombes 1995, p 129; Li 1997, p 238; Li 1998, p 222, Figures 14–17 ; Li 2000, p 178, Figure 225; De Grave 2000, p 135.

Kemponia elegans: Bruce 2004, p 14 .

Material examined

New Caledonia: (i) Kuendu Bay, 0.5 m, coll. B. Richer de Forges, 5 May 1996, 1 „, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15826); (ii) lagoon, Poingam, low tide, coll. B. Richer de Forges, 10 May 1997, 1 „ (MNHN-Na 15829). Fiji: (iii) MUSORSTOM 10, south of Vitu Levu, flat reef, low tide, 3 August 1998, 1 „ (MNHN-Na 15467).

Remarks

Not previously recorded from Fiji and New Caledonia.

Distribution

Type locality: Red Sea. Also known from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kenya, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Madagascar, Seychelles, Kuweit, Laccadive Islands (Minikoi), India, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands , Nicobar Islands, Singapore, South China Sea , Ryukyu Islands , Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor Sea ( Hibernia Reef ), Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland), Caroline Islands, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Marshall Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia ( Society Islands ) .

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 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.

Figure 15. Periclimenes calcaratus Chace and Bruce, 1993, male (MNHN-Na 14886). (a) Anterior carapace; (b) antennule; (c) same, distolateral angle of proximal pedunclar segment; (d) antenna; (e) third pereiopod, distal propod and dactyl; (f) same, distal corpus and unguis; (g) distoventral propodal spine.

Figure 16. Periclimenes crosnieri, new species, holotype female (MNHN-Na 14943), body, lateral view.

Figure 17. Periclimenes crosnieri, new species. (a, c–k) Holotype female; (b) paratype female (MNHN-Na 14943). (a) Anterior carapace; (b) carapace; (c) right eye, lateral view; (d) telson; (e) right antennule; (f) same, peduncle, medial view; (g) right antenna; (h) mandible; (i) maxilla; (j) second maxilliped; (k) third maxilliped.

Figure 31. Periclimenes sp. 1, female (MNHN-Na 14927). (a) Body, lateral view; (b) rostrum; (c) first pereiopod; (d) same, propod and dactyl.