Kemponia nilandensis ( Borradaile, 1915 )

Li, Xinzheng, Bruce, Alexander J. & Manning *, Raymond B., 2004, Some Palaemonid Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) From Northern South China Sea, With Descripitions Of Two New Species, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2), pp. 513-553 : 531-532

Kemponia nilandensis ( Borradaile, 1915)

Periclimenes (Falciger) nilandensis Borradaile, 1915: 211 ; 1917: 372, pl. 54, fig. 13.

Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) nilandensis . – Kemp, 1922: 172.

Periclimenes (Harpilus) nilandensis . – Holthuis, 1952a: 58, fig. 22.

Periclimenes nilandensis . – Bruce, 1978: 222, Figs. 8 , 9 ; 2003: 239; Chace & Bruce, 1993: 118; Müller, 1993: 98; Li, 2000: 215, Fig. 278. Kemponia nilandensis – Bruce, 2004: 18.

Material examined. – 1 ovig female, CN 19-19 , Beibu Bay, [18 N, 107 30’E], 79m, muddy sand, BT, coll. Zhengang Fan, 28 Jan.1959 ; 2 ovig femailes, CN 10-18 , Beibu Bay, [18 45’N, 108 30’E], 23m, muddy sand, BT, coll. Zhengang Fan, 26 Jan.1959 ; 2 ovig femailes, CN X189 B-33, Beibu Bay, [18 10’N, 107 E], 67m, sandy mud, AT, coll. Fuzeng Sun, 10 Apr.1962 .

Diagnosis. – Rostrum reaching as far as or exceeding distal end of scaphocerite, with 2 + 6-8/3-5 teeth, posteriormost dorsal tooth not distinctly isolated from rest and posterior to level of hepatic spine. Carapace with supraorbital spine, hepatic spine slightly larger than antennal spine, arising slightly posteroventral to latter, orbital angle bluntly triangular, not ovate. Fourth thoracic sternite with slender median process. Abdomen with posteromedian margin of tergite convex. Scaphocerite with lateral margin straight, distolateral tooth reaching as far as or slightly exceeding distal margin of lamella. Second pereiopods robust, without distoventral tooth on merus, carpus about 0.8 as long as palm, unarmed distally; fingers 0.65 as long as palm. Ambulatory pereiopods with dactyl not biunguiculate; propodus with spinules on flexor margin.

Distribution. – Previously reported from South Nilandu Atoll, Maldive Islands, Kenya, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Maldive Islands, South China Sea, Indonesia, Northern Territory, Queensland and New Caledonia, to depths of 117- 133 m.

Remarks. – See “Remarks” under Kemponia grandis ( Stimpson, 1860) .

Figures

Fig.8. Macrobrachium mammillodactylus (Thallwitz, 1892). a, carapace and anterior appendages, lateral view; b, mandible; c, 2nd pereiopod; d, same, chela and carpus; e, telson and uropod.

Fig. 9. Palaemon debilis Dana, 1852. a, carapace and rostrum, lateral view; b, antennule; c, mandible; d, 1st pleopod, male.