Periclimenella spinifera ( De Man , 1902 )

Marin, Ivan & Türkay, Michael, 2009, Redescription of Periclimenes brockii (De Man, 1888) (Decapoda: Caridea: Pontoniinae) and other De Man’s type specimens deposited in the collection of the Senckenberg Natural History Museum (SMF), Frankfurt-at-Maine, Germany, Zootaxa 2296, pp. 39-46 : 40-43

Periclimenella spinifera ( De Man, 1902)

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Periclimenes petitthouarsii var. spinifera De Man, 1902: 824 [type locality: Ternate, Indonesia]. Periclinenes (Falciger) spiniferus .—Borradaile, 1917: 324, 369, pl. 52, fig. 1. Periclinenes (Ancylocaris) spiniferus . — Kemp, 1922: 195.

Periclimenes (Harpilius) spiniferus .—Holthuis, 1952: 76–78, fig. 30.

Periclimenella spinifera .—Ď uriš & Bruce, 1995: 656 –661; Figs. 19–20.

Material. Holotype, SMF 8524, Indonesia, Ambon, coll. J. Brock.

Diagnosis. Holotype female. Medium-sized pontoniine shrimp with carapace bearing supraorbital, antennal and hepatic teeth (fig. 3A); antennal tooth larger than hepatic. Rostral formula 1+6/3; rostral teeth large. First pereiopod with spatulated chela ( Fig. 3 B). Second pereiopod large, symmetrical; with snapping mechanism on fingers. The species is one of well described pontoniine shrimp. For full morphological description see in Ď uriš & Bruce (1995). The species is clearly distinguished from other species of the genus by the presence of supraorbital spine ( Fig. 3 A).

Distribution. Wide spread in the tropical Indo-West Pacific from the east coasts of Africa to Hawaii (e.g. De Man, 1902; Ď uriš & Bruce, 1995; Li, 2003).

Figures

FIGURE 3. Periclimenella spinifera (De Man, 1902), holotype, SMF- 8524: A— carapace; B—chela of first pereiopod.