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
Hamodactylus noumeae
Bruce, 1970
Hamodactylus noumeae
Bruce 1970a
, p 539
–541,
Figure 2
;
Chace and Bruce 1993
, p 80
;
Li 2000
, p 59
, Figure 62;
Davie 2002
, p 312
.
Material examined
New Caledonia
:
MONTROUZIER,
Koumac Pass
,
35 m
, gorgonian washings,
28 October 1993
, 2
„„
,
1♀
(with branchial bopyrid) (MNHN-Na 14816)
.
Remarks
The female specimen has five dorsal rostral teeth and both males have four. This species was first described from Nouméa,
New Caledonia
(
Bruce 1970a
), but there have been no subsequent reports from these islands.
Distribution
Type
locality:
Nouméa
,
New Caledonia
. Also known from
Zanzibar, Tanzania, Kenya, Seychelles
,
Japan
,
and
Australia
(
Western Australia
,
Northern Territory
,
Queensland
)
.