Anchistus custos ( Forskål, 1775 )

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 : 528

Anchistus custos ( Forskål, 1775)

Cancer custos Forskål, 1775 : xxi, 94.

Anchistus custos - Holthuis, 1952a: 105; Chace & Bruce, 1993: 46, 72; Müller, 1993: 8; Bruce, 1996: 205; 2003: 211; Li, 1997: 228; 2000: 7, Fig. 8 ; 2001: 76; Davie et al., 1998: 96, phto; Li & Liu, 2002: 371, Fig. 1 .

Material examined. – 9 males, 12 females (5 ovig)( IOCAS, 1 male, 1 female ( ZRC), CN 55 - K332 A, Xinying , Hainan Is., intertidal, with Pinna sp. , 23-25 May.1955.

Distribution. – Red Sea and eastern Africa to Philippines, southward to South Australia, and eastward to the Caroline and Fijian Islands ( Chace & Bruce, 1993), also reported from Ambon, Indonesia ( Debelius, 1999). Associated with mollusks of the genera Pinna , Atrina and Vasum .

Figures

Fig.8. Macrobrachium mammillodactylus (Thallwitz, 1892). a, carapace and anterior appendages, lateral view; b, mandible; c, 2nd pereiopod; d, same, chela and carpus; e, telson and uropod.

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