Kemponia amymone ( De Man, 1902 )

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 : 641

Kemponia amymone ( De Man, 1902)

Periclimenes amymone De Man 1902, p 829 –833, Plate 25, Figure 53; Bruce 1991b, p 235; Chace and Bruce 1993, p 102; Li 2000, p 155, Figure 190; Davie 2002, p 323; Li and Liu 2004, p 90, Figure 1g –k .

Kemponia amymone: Bruce 2004, p 11 .

Material examined

New Caledonia: (i) lagoon, Îlot Maitre , reef flat, scuba, 3 m, coll. C. Vadon, 29 August 1978, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15834) .

Remarks The specimen has a rostral dentition of 1+7/3 and has both second pereiopods. The species was previously recorded from New Caledonia by Bruce (1967b, 1991b) and Ledoyer (1984).

Distribution

Type locality: Ternate, Indonesia. Also known from the Nicobar Islands, Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland), Solomon Islands (New Georgia Islands ) New Caledonia, and Samoan 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.