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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Periclimenes soror
Nobili, 1904
Periclimenes soror
Nobili 1904
, p 232
.
Periclimenes (Periclimenes) soror
:
Holthuis 1952a
, p 51
–53,
Figure 17
.
Periclimenes soror
Bruce 1976c
, p 299
–306,
Figures 1–6
;
Wicksten and Hendrickx 1985
, p 571
;
Chace and Bruce 1993
, p 122
;
Li 2000
, p 237
, Figure 316;
Davie 2002
, p 332
;
Li and Liu 2004
, p 95
,
Figure 7
.
Material examined
New Caledonia
:
(i) MONTROUZIER,
Koumac
,
25 m
,
26 October 1993
, 1
„
,
1♀
(MNHN-Na 14924).
Loyalty Islands
:
(ii)
ATELIER LIFOU
,
Lifou
,
Santal Bay
: westsouthwest of
Easo Point
, stn 1429,
20
°
47.59S
,
167
°
07.19E
,
8–18 m
, coral heads, sedimentary channels, 3, 5, 23, and
24 November 2000
, 2
„„
, 2 ovig.
♀♀
(MNHN-Na 15540)
.
Host
Echinaster luzonicus
(Grey, 1849)
[
Asteroidea, Echinoderma
].
Remarks
The specimens had the accessory tooth on the ambulatory dactyls minute, virtually obsolete. The distolateral angle of the proximal segment of the antennular peduncle was strongly bidentate, but tridentate on the left side in the female.
Distribution
Type
locality:
Djibouti
.
Also
known from the
Red Sea
,
Kenya, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Madagascar, Comoro Islands
,
Seychelles
,
Chagos Islands
,
Malaysia
(
Sabah
),
China
(
Hong Kong
),
Japan, Philippines, Indonesia
,
Australia
(
Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales
),
Marianas Islands, Caroline Islands, Solomon Islands
,
New Caledonia
,
Loyalty Islands
,
Marshall Islands, Fiji
,
French Polynesia
(
Society Islands, Tuamotu Islands
), and Hawaii. Also known from the
East Pacific region
, the
Gulf of California
,
Mexico
,
Panama
, and
Columbia
.