Kemponia tenuipes ( Borradaile, 1898 )

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 : 650

Kemponia tenuipes ( Borradaile, 1898)

Periclimenes tenuipes Borradaile 1898, p 384 ; Bruce 1978b, p 261, Figures 6A , 7 ; Bruce 1991b, p 240; Li 2000, p 240, Figure 319.

Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) tenuipes: Kemp 1922, p 220 , Plate 8, Figure 11 .

Periclimenes (Harpilius) tenuipes: Holthuis 1952a, p 84 .

Kemponia tenuipes: Bruce 2004, p 19 .

Material examined

New Caledonia: (i) Marie Bay, 14 m, scuba, coll. P. Bouchet, 4 January 1993, 1 „, 2♀♀ (1 ovig.) (MNHN-Na 15918). Loyalty Islands: ATELIER LIFOU, Lifou, Santal Bay, (ii) Cap Lefèvre, stn 1469, 20 ° 54.29S, 167 ° 00.49E, 70–130 m, dredge, 22–23 November 2000, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15591); (iii) Peng, stn 1464, 20 ° 54.59S, 167 ° 05.99E, 30–50 m, 14 November 2000, 1 „, 1♀ (MNHN-Na 15589); (iv) north of Cape Aimé Martin (5Acadro), stn 1450, 20 ° 45.89S, 167 ° 01.659E, 27–31 m, washings, 17 and 21 November 2000, 1♀ (MNHN-Na 15624) . Fiji: (v) SUVA 2. Viti Levu, West Lagoon , Stn CP 66, 17 ° 45.19S, 177 ° 13.79E, 37 m, coll. Richer-ORSTOM, 21 October 1998, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15614) .

Remarks

Not previously recorded from Loyalty Islands and Fiji. Previously recorded from New Caledonia by Bruce (1991b).

Distribution

Type locality: New Britain, Papua New Guinea . Also reported from Jordan, Kenya, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Seychelles, La Réunion, Maldives, Sri Lanka , Andaman Islands , China, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea , Timor Sea (Hibernia Reef), Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland), Caroline Islands, New Caledonia, Marshall Islands , and Fiji.

Figures

Figure 6. Kemponia cf. suvadivensis (Borradaile, 1915), ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14926). (a) Carapace; (b) antennal scale; (c) third pereiopod, carpus, propod, and dactyl; (d) same, distal propod and dactyl.

Figure 7. Mesopontonia brevicarpus, new species. (a, d–g) Holotype ovigerous female; (b) paratype male; (c) juvenile (MNHN-Na 14824). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b, c) carapace; (d) antennule; (e) first pereiopod; (f) same, chela; (g) same, apexes of fingers.

Figure 11. Palaemonella komaii, new species. (a–c, g–i) Holotype male (MNHN-Na 15482); (d–f) paratype male (MNHN-Na 15600). (a) First pereipod; (b) same, chela; (c) same, coxa, basis and ishium; (d) second pereiopod, right; (e) same, chela; (f) third pereiopod, left; (g) fifth pereiopod, left; (h) same, distal propodal subsegment and dactyl; (i) uropod.