Ancylomenes venustus (Bruce, 1990) Okuno & Bruce, 2010

Okuno, J. & Bruce, A. J., 2010, Designation of Ancylomenes gen. nov., for the ‘ Periclimenes aesopius species group’ (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with the description of a new species and a checklist of congeneric species *, Zootaxa 2372 (1), pp. 85-105 : 101-102

Ancylomenes venustus (Bruce, 1990) comb. nov.

Restricted synonymy:

Periclimenes venustus Bruce, 1990b: 230–242 , figs. 1–6, 7A, 8A. — De Grave 1998: 16–17, fig. 1 (in part). — Okuno 2002: 217–220, figs. 5, 6C.

Type data. Ovigerous female holotype, NTM; paratypes, BMNH 38041 , RMNH-D 1990 : 37, and USNM 239266 and 1079632 .

Distribution. Type locality: Port Essington, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Also known from Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and Ryukyu Islands ( De Grave 1998).

Bathymetric range. Sublittoral zone, to 10 m.

Host. In association with scleractinians, Goniopora sp. and Heliofungia actiniformis ( Quoy and Gaimard, 1833) , and actiniarians, Actinodendron arboreum ( Quoy and Gaimard, 1833) and Radianthus crispus ( Ehrenberg, 1834) .

Remarks. De Grave (1998) reported A. venustus comb. nov. from Papua New Guinea. However, part of his figure ( Fig. 1C, D ) does not agree with the dentition of A. venustus comb. nov., but more with that of A. sarasvati comb. nov.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Ancylomenes luteomaculatus sp. nov. Holotype, male, CL 3.6 mm, CMNH-ZC 02200: Entire animal in lateral view, scale bar = 5.0 mm.