New records of processid shrimps from the Indo-West and East Pacific (Crustacea: Decapoda)
Author
Grave, Sammy De
Author
Anker, Arthur
text
Zootaxa
2013
3640
2
224
241
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3640.2.6
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1175-5326
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Clytomanningus coutierei
(Nobili, 1904)
Processa coutierei
Nobili, 1904: 234
.—Nouvel, 1945: 395, figs. 1–8.—Hayashi, 1975: 95, figs. 17–18.
Clytomanningus coutierei
.
—Chace, 1997: 34 (key).
Material examined.
Papua New Guinea
: 1 ov. female (pocl 3.0), OUMNH.ZC.2011-02-0026, New
Ireland
, Nusalik, seagrass bed, leg. M. Dowell,
28.08.2004
.
Republic of Palau
: 1 ov. female (pocl 2.2),
2 females
(pocl 1.5, 1,7), OUMNH.ZC.2012-01-076,
Palau
, outside of Malakal Harbour, 7.27065 134.46523,
55 m
, light trap, leg. S.
De
Grave & C. Burras,
31.05.2002
[st 288].
Colour pattern.
Not recorded.
Remarks.
All specimens agree with the re-description of the
type
material in Nouvel (1945) and the description of
Kenyan
material in Hayashi (1975).
Ecology.
Both Ledoyer (1984) and Unsworth
et al.
(2007, 2010) record
C. coutierei
from shallow water seagrass beds,
8 m
and less than
2 m
, respectively. Unsworth
et al.
(2010) showed that the species has a particularly pronounced diurnal change in abundance, which is likely to account for the paucity of records. Interestingly, the specimens from
Palau
were collected at
55 m
depth, the deepest the species has been recorded so far.
Distribution.
This species was considered to be very rare by Hayashi (1975), as at that time it was only known from
Djibouti
and
Kenya
. Since then, it has been recorded from
New Caledonia
(Ledoyer 1984), Oahu, Hawaii (Titgen 1987), Sulawesi,
Indonesia
(Unsworth
et al.
2007, 2010), and is herein recorded from
Papua New Guinea
and
Palau
.