Periclimenella petitthouarsii ( Audouin, 1826 )

Bruce, A. J., 2006, Pontoniine shrimps (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the island of Socotra, with descriptions of new species of Dactylonia Fransen, 2002 and Periclimenoides Bruce, 1990, Zootaxa 1137, pp. 1-36 : 21

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.171992
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6262400
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scientific name	Periclimenella petitthouarsii ( Audouin, 1826 )
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Periclimenella petitthouarsii ( Audouin, 1826) View in CoL

Palaemon Petitthouarsii Audouin, 1826: 91 View in CoL .

Periclimenes Petitthouarsi View in CoL — Borradaile, 1898: 381.

Periclimenella petitthouarsi — Duris & Bruce, 1995: 645 –656, figures 13–18.

Material examined 7 spms (5 ovig.Ψ), MAP151, ST092, 12°40.519’N 54°04.170’E, Hawlaf Bay, E. of Hadibo, N coast, 4–5 m, 21 March 1999, 4 spms SMF 29210, 3 spms NHCY.

Habitat: Dead Acropora (Scleractinia) .

Regional records: First reported from Yemen at Perim by Nobili (1906). Numerous records from throughout the Red Sea, Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf.

General distribution: Type locality: Egypt. Also known from Kenya, Zanzibar, Tanganyika, Comoro Islands and Madagascar.

Remarks: Generally common in the north western Indian Ocean and associated seas, but replaced in the rest of the IndoWest Pacific region by Periclimenella spinifera ( De Man, 1902) . Overlap of the two species distribution may occur.