Odontonia sibogae Bruce, 1972

Bruce, A. J., 2006, Pontoniine shrimps (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the island of Socotra, with descriptions of new species of Dactylonia Fransen, 2002 and Periclimenoides Bruce, 1990, Zootaxa 1137, pp. 1-36 : 17-18

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.171992
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6262390
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scientific name	Odontonia sibogae Bruce, 1972
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Odontonia sibogae Bruce, 1972 View in CoL

Pontonia sibogae Bruce, 1972: 182 View in CoL –185, figure 1.

Odontonia sibogae View in CoL — Fransen, 2002, 371–382, figs 241–246, pl. 19.

Material examined: (1) 1ɗ, MAP137B, ST067, 12°40.429’N 54°11.731’E, Rhyi di Hamri, N coast, Socotra, 7–9 m, 19 March 1999, SMF 29217. (2) 1 ovig. Ψ, MAP137, stn 67, 12°40.429’N 54°11.731’E, Rhyi di Hamri, E of Hawlaf, 7–8 m, 19 March 1999, in dead Acropora , NHCY.

Host: No data. Usually associated with tunicate hosts.

Regional records: Previously reported from Oman by Holthuis (1986). General distribution: Type locality: Port Curtis, Queensland, Australia. In the Indian Ocean, otherwise only known from Madagascar ( Bruce, 1978a) and the Seychelle Islands ( Fransen, 1994). Also known from Indonesia.

Remarks: Only the second pereiopods of the male are preserved, but the species can be readily identified by the presence of five pairs of dorsal telson spines, the only species of the genus with this feature.

References

Bruce, A. J. (1972) Notes on some Indo-Pacific Pontoniinae, XX. Pontonia sibogae sp. nov., a new species of Pontonia from eastern Australia and Indonesia (Decapoda, Natantia, Palaemonidae). Crustaceana, 23, 182 - 186.

Bruce, A. J. (1978 a) A report on a collection of pontoniine shrimps from Madagascar and adjacent seas. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 62, 205 - 290.

Fransen, C. H. J. M. (1994) Marine palaemonid shrimps of the Netherlands Seychelles Expedition 1992 - 1993. Zoologischen Verhandlingen, Leiden, 297, 85 - 152.

Fransen, C. H. J. M. (2002) Taxonomy, phylogeny, historical biogeography, and historical ecology of the genus Pontonia Latreille (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen., Leiden, 336,: 3 - 433.

Holthuis, L. B. (1986) Some Pontoniinae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Southern Oman. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 60, 263 - 272.