Pontoniine shrimps (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the island of Socotra, with descriptions of new species of Dactylonia Fransen, 2002 and Periclimenoides Bruce, 1990
Author
Bruce, A. J.
text
Zootaxa
2006
1137
1
36
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.171992
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11755326
171992
Odontonia sibogae
Bruce, 1972
Pontonia sibogae
Bruce, 1972
: 182
–185, figure 1.
Odontonia sibogae
—
Fransen, 2002
, 371–382, figs 241–246, pl. 19.
Material examined
: (1) 1ɗ, MAP137B, ST067,
12°40.429’N
54°11.731’E
, Rhyi di Hamri, N coast,
Socotra
,
7–9 m
,
19 March 1999
,
SMF
29217. (2) 1 ovig. Ψ, MAP137, stn 67,
12°40.429’N
54°11.731’E
, Rhyi di Hamri, E of Hawlaf,
7–8 m
,
19 March 1999
, in dead
Acropora
,
NHCY
.
Host
: No data. Usually associated with tunicate hosts.
Regional records
: Previously reported from
Oman
by
Holthuis (1986)
.
General distribution
:
Type
locality: Port Curtis, Queensland,
Australia
. In the Indian Ocean, otherwise only known from
Madagascar
(
Bruce, 1978a
) and the
Seychelle
Islands (
Fransen, 1994
). Also known from
Indonesia
.
Remarks
: Only the second pereiopods of the male are preserved, but the species can be readily identified by the presence of five pairs of dorsal telson spines, the only species of the genus with this feature.