Harpiliopsis spinigera ( Ortmann, 1890 )

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 : 636-637

Harpiliopsis spinigera ( Ortmann, 1890)

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Anchistia spinigera Ortmann 1890, p 511 , Plate 36, Figure 23 .

Harpilius depressus var. gracilis Kemp 1922, p 234 , Figure 71.

Harpiliopsis depressus var. spinigerus: Holthuis 1952a, p 184 –185.

Harpiliopsis spinigera: Chace and Bruce 1993, p 82 ; De Grave 2000, p 124; Li 2000, p 64, Figure 67; Davie 2002, p 313; Marin et al. 2004, p 201, Figure 2 .

Material examined

New Caledonia: Croissant Reef, dive station 533, scuba, 20 m, coll. Bargibant and Menou, 18 April 1994, 1 „ (MNHN-Na 15838).

Remarks

Not previously recorded with certainty from New Caledonia. Associated with Pocillopora and Stylophora .

Distribution

Type locality: Samoa . Also known from Kenya, Zanzibar, Comoro Islands, Seychelles, La Réunion, Maldives , Andaman Islands , Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia (Queensland), New Caledonia, Fiji, Marshall Islands , and, in the East Pacific region , Panama and Colombia .

Figures

Figure 2. Harpiliopsis spinigera (Ortmann, 1880), male (MNHN-Na 15838). (a) Second pereiopod; (b) same, fingers.

Figure 23. Periclimenes lanipes Kemp, 1922. a, c, ovigerous female; (b) male (MNHN-Na 14913). (a, b) Carapace; (c) eye.