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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Brachycarpus biunguiculatus
(
Lucas, 1846
)
Palaemon biunguiculatus
Lucas 1846
, p 45
, Plate 4,
Figure 4
.
Brachycarpus biunguiculatus
:
Kemp 1925
, p 312
–314;
Holthuis 1952b
, p 3
–10, Plate 1, Figures a–q;
Fransen 1987
, p 509
,
Figure 5
;
Bruce 1996
, p 200
,
Figures 1a–c
,
28a
,
30
.
Material examined
La Réunion
:
(i)
MD 32
, stn CP97,
19
°
41.49S
,
54
°
08.79E
,
55 m
, pebbles, large slabs of dead reef corals,
28 August 1982
, 1
„
,
1♀
(MNHN-Na 14942)
.
New Caledonia
:
(ii) MONTROUZIER,
Touho
(Tie´),
5–7 m
, coll.
B.
Richer de Forges
,
September 1993
, 1 ovig.
♀
(MNHN-Na 14808)
.
Distribution
Type
localities: Oran and
Bone
,
Algeria
.
Also
known from the
Red Sea
,
Zanzibar
,
Sri Lanka
,
Ryukyu Islands
, Caroline Islands,
Chesterfield Islands
,
New Caledonia
,
Loyalty Islands
,
Wake Island
, and Hawaii. Also known extensively in the
Eastern Pacific
,
Eastern
and
Western Atlantic
, and
western
Mediterranean
region
.