Kemponia ensifrons ( Dana, 1852 )

Li, Xinzheng & Bruce, Alexander J., 2006, Further Indo-West Pacific palaemonoid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonoidea), principally from the New Caledonian region, Journal of Natural History 40 (11 - 12), pp. 611-738 : 644

Kemponia ensifrons ( Dana, 1852)

( Figures 4 , 5 )

Anchistia ensifrons Dana 1852, p 25 .

Periclimenes (Falciger) ensifrons: Borradaile 1917, p 367 , 370.

Periclimenes ensifrons: Chace and Bruce 1993, p 111 ; Li 2000, p 180.

Kemponia ensifrons: Bruce 2004, p 15 .

Material examined

New Caledonia: MONTROUZIER, Touho, sandy islet, scuba, coll. B. Richer de Forges , scuba, 7 September 1993, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 14891) .

Remarks

Not previously reported from New Caledonia. The species is possibly synonymous with Kemponia grandis (Stimpson) ( Bruce 2004, p 15) .

Distribution

Type locality: Balabac Strait , North Borneo. Also reported from the Egyptian Red Sea, Zanzibar, Comoro Islands, Seychelles, Burma, China, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Marshall Islands, and French Polynesia (Tuamotu Islands) .

Figures

Figure 4. Kemponia ensifrons (Dana, 1852), ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14891). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) anterior carapace; (c) antennule; (d) antenna.

Figure 5. Kemponia ensifrons (Dana, 1852), ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14891). (a) Second pereiopod; (b) same, chela and carpus; (c) third pereiopod, propod and dactyl; (d) same, distal propod and dactyl.