Kemponia johnsoni ( Bruce, 1987a )

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 : 530-531

Kemponia johnsoni ( Bruce, 1987a)

( Fig. 17 )

Periclimenes (Harpilius) calmani - Johnson, 1962: 59. Periclimenes johnsoni Bruce, 1987a: 115-125 , Figs. 1-5 ; 2003: 236;

Chace & Bruce, 1993: 115; Müller, 1993: 91; Li, 2000: 199,

Fig. 254. Kemponia johnsoni – Bruce, 2004: 16.

Material examined. – 3 males, 9 females (3 ovig), 6 juv. ( IOCAS) , 1 female ( ZRC) , 1 female (SI), Qinglan Harbour, Hainan Is. , intertidal, mud, 27 Apr.1980 ; 1 male, 1 female, CN 90 C-047A2, Haikou, Hainan Is. , algae culture field, coll. X. Ren, 4 Nov. 1990 .

Diagnosis. – Rostrum sexually dimorphic, being moderately deep in females, and more slender in males, with 1 + 7-9/4- 5 teeth, posteriormost dorsal tooth distinctly isolated from others. Carapace without supraorbital spine. Scaphocerite with distolateral tooth not over-reaching distal margin of lamella. Fourth thoracic sternite with short, stout, tapering median process. Second pereiopods slender; without distoventral tooth on merus; carpus about 1.5 times as long as chela, unarmed distally; chela with fingers subequal to palm. Ambulatory pereiopods with dactyl slender, long and simple; propodus with few spinules on flexor margin; fifth pereiopods not reaching as far as end of scaphocerite.

Distribution. – Previously known only from Singapore.

Remarks. – See “Remarks” under Kemponia grandis ( Stimpson, 1860) .

Figures

Fig. 17. Kemponia johnsoni (Bruce, 1987). a, carapace and rostrum, lateral view, female; b, same, male.

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

Fig. 2. Exopalaemon orientis Holthuis, 1950. a, carapace and rostrum, lateral view; b, mandible; c, 1st pereiopod; d, 2nd pereiopod; e, 3rd pereiopod; f, same, dactyl and propodus; g, 5th pereiopod; h, same, dactyl and propodus.

Fig. 3. Leander tenuicornis (Say, 1818). a, carapace and rostrum, lateral view, female; b, same, male; c, antennule.

Fig. 4. Leandrites stenopus Holthuis, 1950. a, carapace and rostrum, lateral view; b, eye; c, antennule; d, scaphocerite; e, telson and uropod, dorsal view; f, tip of telson; g, eggs.

Fig. 5. Leandrites stenopus Holthuis, 1950. a, b, carapace and rostrum, lateral view; c-e, mandible, c, d, right, e, left; f, maxillula; g, maxilla; h, 1st maxilliped; i, 2nd maxilliped; j, 3rd maxilliped.