Ancylomenes lucasi ( Chace, 1937 ) 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 : 98-99

Ancylomenes lucasi ( Chace, 1937) comb. nov.

Restricted synonymy:

Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) lucasi Chace, 1937: 133–135 , fig. 8.

Periclimenes (Harpilius) lucasi . — Holthuis 1951: 54–57; pls. 18–19, figs. f–h.

Material examined. AHF 118701 , 1 male CL 3.0 mm, 1 ovig. female, CL 4.7 mm, Isla Catalina , San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico, 18.2 m, next to cerianthid sea anemone, 17 June 1978, leg. A. Kerstitch.

Type data. Female holotype (Cat. No. 361090) and 3 paratypes are deposited at the Department Tropical Research, New York Zoological Society; other paratype is housed at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College , Cambridge (see Holthuis 1951) .

Distribution. Type locality: San Lucas Bay, Baja California, Mexico (22º53'N, 109º54'E). Known from Baja California to southern Panama, Eastern Pacific ( Wicksten 1983).

Bathymetric range. Sublittoral zone, to 90 m.

Host. Associated with cerianthids. Also known as a fish cleaner.