Palaemon debilis Dana, 1852

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 : 620-621

Palaemon debilis Dana, 1852

Palaemon debilis Dana 1852, p 26 ; Bruce 1991b, p 227, Figures 1d , 3f ; Chace and Bruce 1993, p 40; Bruce 1996, p 202; Davie 2002, p 299; Li et al. 2004, p 521, Figure 9 .

Palaemon (Palaemon) debilis: Holthuis 1950, p 66 –70, Figure 13 .

Material examined

Île Europa: (i) lagoon, coll. P. Fourmanoir, 4 „„, 13♀♀ (5 ovig.) (MNHN-Na 8460). Philippines: (ii) MUSORSTOM II, shore station, Silot Bay , mangrove, 15 December 1980, 1 „, 1♀ (MNHN-Na 15920). New Caledonia: (iii) west coast (Le Cap), mangrove, coll. B. Richer de Forges, 2 December 1992, 3 ovig. ♀♀ (MNHN-Na 14831); (iv) west coast (Le Cap), mangrove (in burrows), coll. B. Richer de Forges, 3 December 1992, 6 juveniles (MNHN-Na 14833); (v) south coast, Goro Reef flat, at low tide, coll. B. Richer de Forges, 11 January 1993, 1 „ (with bopyrid), 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 14830) .

Parasites

(i) Diplophryxus jordani Richardson ( Isopoda : Bopyridae ).

Remarks

Not previously recorded from Île Europa.

Distribution

Type locality: Hilo , Hawaii. Common species throughout most of the Indo-West Pacific region from the Gulf of Suez to French Polynesia (Tuamotu Islands) .

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.

Figure 3. Kemponia agag (Kemp, 1922), male (MNHN-Na 14877). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) antennal scale; (c) second pereiopod, ischium, merus, and carpus; (d) same, chela; (e) same, fingers; (f) same, article of carpus and chela; (g) proximal fingers; (h) third pereiopod, propod and dactyl; (i) same, distal propod and dactyl.

Figure 9. Palaemonella komaii, new species, holotype male (MNHN-Na 15482). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) anterior carapace; (c) telson; (d) eye, dorsal view; (e) antennule; (f) same, distal shorter free ramus of upper flagellum; (g) antenna.

Figure 13. Palaemonella pusilla Bruce, 1975, male (MNHN-Na 14839). (a) Mandible; (b) same, incisor process; (c) first pereiopod; (d) second pereiopod; (e) same, fingers; (f) same, carpus; (g) endopod of second pleopod.