Coralliocaris viridis Bruce, 1974

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 : 630-631

Coralliocaris viridis Bruce, 1974

Coralliocaris viridis Bruce 1974a, p 222 –224, Figure 1 ; Chace and Bruce 1993, p 78; Li 2000, p 38, Figure 38; Davie 2002, p 309.

Material examined

Madagascar: (i) northwest coast, Nosy Be (Ambatoloaka), coll. A. Crosnier, September 1958, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 14813); (ii) Îles Glorieuses, intertidal, coll. A. Crosnier, September 1958, 1 „, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 14814) .

Remarks

The Îles Glorieuses specimens lack second pereiopods but have very slender rostra with a dentition of 4/1 and 5/1, respectively. The Nosy Be specimen has both second pereiopods and a rostral dentition of 5/2, all teeth distally situated. Not previously recorded from Madagascar.

Distribution

Type locality: Mombasa Island, Kenya . Also known from Mozambique, Seychelles, Maldive Islands, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Ryukyu Islands , Indonesia , Papua-New Guinea, and Australia (Northern Territory and Queensland) .

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.