Kemponia amymone ( De Man , 1902 ) De Man, 1902

Bruce, A. J., 2004, A partial revision of the genus Periclimenes Costa, 1884 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), Zootaxa 582, pp. 1-26 : 11-12

Kemponia amymone ( De Man, 1902) comb. nov.

Periclimenes amymone De Man, 1902: 829 –833, pl. 25 fig. 53. — Li, 2000: 155 –156, fig. 190. — Jayachandran, 2001: 285 –286, fig. 77.(descr.)

Type material. 2 syntypes (1 ovig. Ψ), SMF­8526.

Hosts. Associated with a wide variety of branching corals, including Acropora , Pocil­

lopora, Stylophora, Seriatopora ( Patton, 1966; Bruce, 1972; Bruce and Coombes, 1995).

Habitat. Coral reefs.

Bathymetric range. Shallow water to 23–24 m ( Bruce, 1991).

Distribution. Also known from the Nicobar Islands, Singapore, Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, Solomon Islands, Phillipines, and New Caledonia.

Remarks. One of the 3 known commensal species of the genus. Kemp (1922) noted that the ambulatory pereiopods of this species were particularly stout for a member of the “ grandis species group” and were without spinules on the posterior border of the propod. The dactylus is also rather elongate­hamate in appearance. The species therefore resembles the genus Harpilius in some features. It confirms its placement in the “ grandis species group” by the presence of a supraorbital spine and the distoventral angle of the ambulatory propod is actually provided with a small spine ( Bruce, 1983, fig. 7C) as well as dense transverse rows of setae. Ledoyer (1984, fig 11) reports Periclimenes (Harpilius) cf. amymone from sea grass beds in New Caledonia. As his figure shows the typical distoventral propodal spine with dense distal setation of the fifth pereiopod confirms that it is referable to Periclimenes amymone De Man.