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
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Coralliocaris viridis
Bruce, 1974
Coralliocaris viridis
Bruce 1974a
, p 222
–224,
Figure 1
;
Chace and Bruce 1993
, p 78
;
Li 2000
, p 38
, Figure 38;
Davie 2002
, p 309
.
Material examined
Madagascar
:
(i) northwest coast,
Nosy Be
(Ambatoloaka), coll.
A. Crosnier
,
September 1958
, 1 ovig.
♀
(MNHN-Na 14813); (ii) Îles Glorieuses, intertidal, coll.
A. Crosnier
,
September 1958
, 1
„
, 1 ovig.
♀
(MNHN-Na 14814)
.
Remarks
The Îles Glorieuses specimens lack second pereiopods but have very slender rostra with a dentition of 4/1 and 5/1, respectively. The Nosy Be specimen has both second pereiopods and a rostral dentition of 5/2, all teeth distally situated. Not previously recorded from
Madagascar
.
Distribution
Type
locality:
Mombasa Island
,
Kenya
. Also known from
Mozambique, Seychelles, Maldive Islands, Sri Lanka
,
Vietnam
,
Ryukyu Islands
,
Indonesia
, Papua-New
Guinea
,
and
Australia
(
Northern Territory
and
Queensland
)
.