Further Indo-West Pacific palaemonoid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonoidea), principally from the New Caledonian region
Author
Li, Xinzheng
Author
Bruce, Alexander J.
text
Journal of Natural History
2006
2006-07-12
40
11 - 12
611
738
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930600763627
journal article
10.1080/00222930600763627
1464-5262
5226967
Kemponia nilandensis
(
Borradaile, 1915
)
Periclimenes (Falciger) nilandensis
Borradaile 1915
, p 211
;
Borradaile 1917
, p 324
, 372, Plate 54,
Figure 13
.
Periclimenes nilandensis
:
Bruce 1978a
, p 222
,
Figures 8
,
9
;
Chace and Bruce 1993
, p 118
;
Bruce 1996
, p 237
;
Li 2000
, p 214
, Figure 278;
Davie 2002
, p 330
.
Kemponia nilandensis
:
Bruce 2004
, p 18
; Li et al. 2004, p 531.
Material examined
Madagascar
:
(i) Nosy Be, shallow waters, coll.
A. Crosnier
, 1966, 2
„„
, 3 ovig.
♀♀
(MNHN-Na 15955)
.
La Réunion
:
(ii)
MD32
, stn CP43,
21
°
20.79S
,
55
°
26.99E
,
73–77 m
, shelly basaltic sand,
27 August 1982
, 3
„„
,
27 ♀♀
(22 ovig.) (MNHN-Na 14918)
.
New Caledonia
:
(iii) MONTROUZIER,
Touho Channel
,
35 m
, from antipatharians, coll.
B.
Richer de Forges
,
31 August 1993
, 4
„„
,
10♀♀
(9 ovig.) (MNHN-Na 14917)
.
Remarks
Previously recorded from
Madagascar
(Nosy Be´) by
Bruce (1978a)
. Not previously recorded from
La Réunion
. Reported from Anaa Reef,
New Caledonia
by
Bruce (1996)
.
Distribution
Type
locality:
South Nilandu Atoll
,
Maldives
.
Also
known from
Kenya, Zanzibar, Madagascar
,
Maldives
,
South
China
Sea
,
Indonesia
,
Australia
(
Northern Territory, Queensland
), and
New Caledonia
; to depths of
133 m
.