Palaemonella lata Kemp, 1922

Li, Xinzheng, 2008, Report on some species of Palaemonidae (Crustacea, Decapoda) from French Polynesia, Zoosystema 30 (1), pp. 203-252 : 217

Palaemonella lata Kemp, 1922

Palaemonella lata Kemp, 1922: 127-129 , figs 3- 6. — Odinetz 1983: 207. — Chace & Bruce 1993: 89. — Poupin 1998: 15. — Li 2000: 103, fig. 112.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Society Is. Tahiti, coll. Odinetz, 1 ♀ (MNHN-Na 6622).

DISTRIBUTION. — Type locality: Port Blair, Andaman Is. Previously reported also from Zanzibar, la Réunion, Indonesia, Hawaii, and French Polynesia (Society Is); littoral. Previously recorded from the Society Islands by Odinetz (1983) and Poupin (1998).

REMARKS

The only specimen examined (cl 3.58 mm) has a rostral dentition of 3+5/3. There is no trace of any supraorbital ridge or tubercle, but a postorbital ridge is distinct. The second pereiopods are subequal and similar, the carpus with upper and lower distomedial teeth and the merus without a lateral distoventral tooth. The third ambulatory pereiopod has the dactyl relatively long and slender in comparison with the type specimen described by Kemp (1922), about 0.3 times the propod length, opposed to 0.26 in the type, and about 6.0 times longer than its proximal depth, instead of about 4.0 times in the type.