Altopontonia disparostris 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 : 624

Altopontonia disparostris Bruce, 1990

Altopontonia disparostris Bruce 1990a, p 192 –202, Figures 25 –33, 39k; Bruce 1991a, p 390; Bruce 1996, p 204; Bruce 2005, p 2, Figure 8A ; Li 2000, p 2, Figure 2 .

Material examined

Vanuatu: MUSORSTOM 8, (i) stn CP1049, 16 ° 39.439S, 168 ° 02.979W, 469–525 m, 1 October 1994, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15931); (ii) stn CP1088, 15 ° 09.239S, 167 ° 15.139W, 425–455 m, 6 October 1994, 2 ovig. ♀♀ (MNHN-Na 15933) . New Caledonia: NORFOLK 2, (iii) Île des Pins , stn DW 2156, 22 ° 549S, 167 ° 159W, 468–500 m, 5 November 2003, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15932) . Fiji: BORDAU 1, (iv) stn DW 1492, 18 ° 439S, 178 ° 239W, 430–450 m, 11 March 1999, 2♀♀ (1 ovig.) (MNHN-Na 15436); (v) stn CP 1505, 18 ° 129S, 178 ° 379W, 420–450 m, 13 March 1999, 10 ovig. ♀♀ (MNHN-Na 15435) .

Remarks

Not previously recorded from Vanuatu and Fiji. Bruce (2005) illustrated the coloration.

Distribution

Type locality: off New Caledonia. Also known from Tasman Sea, Vanuatu and Fiji ; 322– 525 m.

Figures

Figure 2. Harpiliopsis spinigera (Ortmann, 1880), male (MNHN-Na 15838). (a) Second pereiopod; (b) same, fingers.

Figure 8. Mesopontonia brevicarpus, new species, holotype ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14824). (a) Major second pereiopod; (b) same, chela; (c) same, fingers; (d) minor second pereiopod; (e) same, chela; (f) third pereiopod; (g) same, propod and dactyl; (h) same, distal propod and dactyl.

Figure 25. Periclimenes macrophthalmus Fujino and Miyake, 1970, ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14620). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) right second pereiopod; (c) fingers of left pereiopod pereiopod. Scale bars: 1.41 mm (a); 2.24 mm (b); 0.5 mm (c).