Mesopontonia gracilicarpus Bruce, 1990

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 : 655

Mesopontonia gracilicarpus Bruce, 1990

Mesopontonia gracilicarpus Bruce 1990a, p 202 –211, Figures 34–37, 39l, m; Bruce 1991a, p 391, Figure 64; Li 2000, p 76, Figure 76.

Material examined

New Caledonia: (i) SMIB 8 , Azteque Bank , stn DW181, 23 ° 17.79S, 168 ° 04.89E, 311– 330 m, 31 January 1993, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 14825); (ii) BATHUS 4, stn CP922, 18 ° 48.049S, 163 ° 18.589E, 600 m, 6 August 1994, 1♀ (MNHN-Na 15966); (iii) HALIPRO 2, Norfolk Ridge, stn BT70, 24 ° 469S, 168 ° 099E, 226–238 m, 20 November 1996, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15974); (iv) NORFOLK 1, Antigonia Bank, stn CP1714, 23 ° 229S, 168 ° 039E, 257–269 m, 26 June 2001, 1 „ (MNHN-Na 15971) .

Remarks

The single specimen of (i) is in poor condition, with the major second pereiopod only, damaged, lacking the fingers, sixth abdominal segment and caudal fan and left fifth and right third and fourth pereiopods missing. The specimen (ii) with rostral formula 1+11/3, palm of major second chela covered with distinct fine tubercles. Specimen (iii) damaged, both second pereiopods lost, rostrum broken. The specimen (iv) with rostral formula 1+9/ 2, right (?minor) second pereiopod lost.

Distribution