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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Kemponia grandis
(
Stimpson, 1860
)
Anchistia grandis
Stimpson 1860
, p 39
.
Periclimenes grandis
:
Borradaile 1898
, p 382
;
Chace and Bruce 1993
, p 112
;
Li 2000
, p 186
, Figure 235;
Davie 2002
, p 327
;
Li and Liu 2004
, p 93
,
Figure 4
;
Li 2004a
, p 69
.
Kemponia grandis
:
Bruce 2004
, p 16
; Li et al. 2004, p 530.
Material examined
Madagascar
:
(i) Nosy Be, shallow waters, coll.
A. Crosnier
, 1966, 2
„„
, 2 ovig.
♀♀
(MNHN-Na 15956).
New Caledonia
:
(ii) MONTROUZIER,
Touho
,
Grand Récif
,
Mangalia
, intertidal zone, coll.
B.
Richer de Forges
,
15 October 1993
, 1 ovig.
♀
(MNHN- Na 14893); (iii)
Ouano
reef flat, low tide, coll.
B.
Richer de Forges
,
26 April 1998
, 1 ovig.
♀
(MNHN-Na 15813).
Loyalty Islands
:
ATELIER LIFOU
,
Lifou
, (iv)
Santal Bay
: between
Huca Hutighé Islet
and the shore, stn 1421,
20
°
52.49S
,
167
°
08.59E
,
4 m
, coarse sand on flatstone,
26–27 November 2000
, 1
„
(MNHN-Na 15471)
.
Remarks
Previously reported from
Madagascar
by
Bruce (1978a)
. Not previously recorded from
New Caledonia
and
Loyalty Islands
, although it is one of the commonest and most widely distributed Indo-West Pacific pontoniine species.
Distribution
Type
locality:
Amami O Shima
,
Ryukyu Islands
. Also
known from
Egypt, Israel
,
Djibouti
, Aden,
Kenya, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Mozambique, Comoro Islands, Madagascar
,
Seychelles
,
Sri Lanka
,
Burma
, Malaya,
Singapore
,
Japan
,
Indonesia
,
Australia
(
Northern Territory
,
Queensland
),
New Caledonia
,
Loyalty Islands
,
Marshall Islands
,
Tuvalu
, and
Fiji
.