Harpiliopsis depressa ( Stimpson, 1860 )

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

Harpiliopsis depressa ( Stimpson, 1860)

Harpilius depressus Stimpson 1860, p 38 ; Kemp 1922, p 231, Figures 69, 70.

Harpiliopsis depressus: Borradaile 1917, p 380 ; Holthuis 1951, p 70, Plates 21, 22, Figures a– f; Holthuis 1952a, p 182, Figure 90; Bruce 1970d, p 306; Bruce 1991b, p 263; Fransen 1994, p 107, Figures 59, 61; Li 1997, p 233; Li 1998, p 222, Figures 8–11 ; De Grave 2000, p 124.

Periclimenes pusillus Rathbun 1906, p 921 , Figure 71, Plate 24, Figure 7 .

Material examined

New Caledonia: Boulari Pass, stn 505, scuba, on Pocillopora sp. , coll. J.-L. Menou, 12 April 1994, 1 „ (MNHN-Na 15854).

Remarks

Previously recorded from New Caledonia by Bruce (1991b).

Distribution

Type locality: Hawaii. Common and widespread throughout most of the Indo-Pacific region: Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, Kenya, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Comoro Islands, Madagascar, Seychelles, La Réunion, Maldives, Chagos Islands, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands, Nicolar Islands, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, South China Sea, Japan, Philippines, Australia (Western Australia, Queensland), Mariana Islands, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, Marshall Islands, Ellice Islands (Rotuma Island), Fiji, Samoan Islands, Kiribati, Line Islands (Palmyra Island), Hawaii, Johnson Atoll; also Galapagos Islands, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador. Associated with Pocillopora , Seriatopora , Stylophora , rarely Acropora and Porites .

Figures

Figure 7. Mesopontonia brevicarpus, new species. (a, d–g) Holotype ovigerous female; (b) paratype male; (c) juvenile (MNHN-Na 14824). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b, c) carapace; (d) antennule; (e) first pereiopod; (f) same, chela; (g) same, apexes of fingers.

Figure 8. Mesopontonia brevicarpus, new species, holotype ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14824). (a) Major second pereiopod; (b) same, chela; (c) same, fingers; (d) minor second pereiopod; (e) same, chela; (f) third pereiopod; (g) same, propod and dactyl; (h) same, distal propod and dactyl.

Figure 9. Palaemonella komaii, new species, holotype male (MNHN-Na 15482). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) anterior carapace; (c) telson; (d) eye, dorsal view; (e) antennule; (f) same, distal shorter free ramus of upper flagellum; (g) antenna.

Figure 10. Palaemonella komaii, new species, holotype male (MNHN-Na 15482). (a) Mandible; (b) maxillula; (c) maxilla; (d) first maxilliped; (e) second maxilliped; (f) third maxilliped.

Figure 11. Palaemonella komaii, new species. (a–c, g–i) Holotype male (MNHN-Na 15482); (d–f) paratype male (MNHN-Na 15600). (a) First pereipod; (b) same, chela; (c) same, coxa, basis and ishium; (d) second pereiopod, right; (e) same, chela; (f) third pereiopod, left; (g) fifth pereiopod, left; (h) same, distal propodal subsegment and dactyl; (i) uropod.