Conchodytes meleagrinae Peters, 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 : 628

Conchodytes meleagrinae Peters, 1852

Conchodytes meleagrinae Peters 1852, p 594 ; Bruce 1978a, p 279; Bruce 1991b, p 262,

Figure 25a–d ; Chace and Bruce 1993, p 74; Li 2000, p 25, Figure 26 ; Davie 2002, p 307;

Li 2004a, p 67.

Material examined

Île Europa: (i) 1 „ (MNHN-Na 14810). Malaya (or Vietnam): (ii) associated with Meleagrina sp. , 1 „ (MNHN-Na 15939). New Caledonia: (iii) reef inside Abore, 4 m, with Pinctada margaritifera , coll. P. Laboute, 8 November 1987, 1 „, 1♀ (MNHN-Na 15949); (iv) MONTROUZIER, Grand Récif, Mangalia, in pearl oysters, coll. B. Richer de Forges, 15 September 1993, 1 „, 2 ovig. ♀♀ (MNHN-Na 14809) . Loyalty Islands: (v) ATELIER LIFOU, Lifou , Santal Bay: west or southwest of Easo Point, stn 1429, 20 ° 47.59S, 167 ° 07.19E, 8–18 m, sedimentary channels, 3/5/ 23–24 November 2000, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15437) .

Remarks

Previously recorded from New Caledonia on Touaorou Reef, Yaté ( Bruce 1991b). Previously recorded from Madagascar: Île Europa by Bruce (1978a). Not previously recorded from Loyalty Islands.

Distribution

Type locality: Mozambique (Ibo, Cabo Delgado), southeastern coast of Africa. Also known from Red Sea eastward to Hawaii .

Figures

Figure 25. Periclimenes macrophthalmus Fujino and Miyake, 1970, ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14620). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) right second pereiopod; (c) fingers of left pereiopod pereiopod. Scale bars: 1.41 mm (a); 2.24 mm (b); 0.5 mm (c).

Figure 26. Periclimenes novaecaledoniae Bruce, 1967, ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14919), third pereiopod. (a) Distal propod and dactyl; (b) distal corpus and unguis, dactyl; (c) distoventral propodal spine; (d) distal second ventral spine.