Kemponia grandis ( Stimpson, 1860 )

Li, Xinzheng, Bruce, Alexander J. & Manning *, Raymond B., 2004, Some Palaemonid Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) From Northern South China Sea, With Descripitions Of Two New Species, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2), pp. 513-553 : 530

Kemponia grandis ( Stimpson, 1860)

Anchistia grandis Stimpson, 1860: 39 .

Periclimenes grandis – Borradaile, 1898: 382; Bruce, 1975: 23, Fig. 1 ; 2003: 233; Chace & Bruce, 1993: 112; Müller, 1993: 84; Li, 1997: 238; 2000: 186, Fig. 235; 2001: 82; 2004: 69.

Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) grandis - Kemp, 1922: 210, Figs. 58, 59, pl. 7: fig. 10.

Periclimenes (Harpilius) grandis – Holthuis, 1952a: 79.

Kemponia grandis – Bruce, 2004: 16 .

Material examined. – 14 males, 32 females, CN 54-255 , Beigang, Luzhou Island , Guangxi Province, coll. Yongliang Wang and J. Y. Liu, 1 Dec.1954 .

Diagnosis. – Rostrum up-turned, with 1-2 + 6-8/2-5 teeth. Carapace with supraorbital spine. Scaphocerite with distolateral tooth distinctly over-reaching distal margin of lamella. Fourth thoracic sternite with slender median process. Second pereiopods with distoventral tooth on merus; carpus stout, shorter than palm, armed distally with 1 distal tooth; chela with fingers 0.5 to 0.8 as long as palm. Ambulatory pereiopods with dactyl stout and simple; propodus with few spinules on flexor margin; fifth pereiopods not reaching as far as end of scaphocerite.

Distribution. – Red Sea to Mozambique, eastward to Japan, Indonesia, Great Barrier Reef, and Marshall Islands.

Remarks. – Bruce (2004) designated a new genus, Kemponia , to include the 24 species of an expanded “ Periclimenes grandis species group”, which are primarily coral reef species and predominantly free-living, some as micro-predators, or associated with scleractinian corals. Anchistia grandis Stimpson, 1860 was designated as the type species of Kemponia by Bruce (2004).

Figures

Fig. 1. Coutierella tonkinensis Sollaud, 1914. a, carapace and rostrum, lateral view; b, mandible; c, 1st maxilliped; d, telson; e, tip of telson.