Harpiliopsis depressa ( Stimpson, 1860 )

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 : 14-15

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scientific name	Harpiliopsis depressa ( Stimpson, 1860 )
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Harpiliopsis depressa ( Stimpson, 1860) View in CoL

Harpilius depressus Stimpson, 1860: 38 View in CoL .

Harpiliopsis depressus — Holthuis, 1951: 70 –75, pl. 21 a–i, 22 a–f.

Material examined. (1) 1 spm, MAP125, ST063A, 12°38.9’N 53°56.0’E, Qadub, W of Hadibo, N coast, 6–8 m, 18 March 1999, SMF 29197. (2) 2 adults,? 4 juvs., MAP136, ST067, 12°40.429’N 54°11.731’E, Rhyi di Hamri, North coast, 7–9 m, 19 March 1999, NHCY. (3) 3 spms, MAP170, ST097, 12°37.179’N 54°21.107’E, Roosh, 1 km E of Suqra, N coast, 12 m, 23 March 1999, SMF 29198.

Hosts: (1), (2); Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus) ; (3), Pocillopora eydouxi Edwards & Haime [ Scleractinia ].

Regional: Reported from Aden (Bruce, 1978), Maldive Islands ( Borradaile, 1917; Bruce,1973).

General distribution: Type locality: Hawaii. Distributed throughout the whole Indo West Pacific, where there are coral reefs, and extending to the Pacific coast of America from Gulf of California to Colombia.

Remarks: Adults with second pereiopods, in good condition; juveniles without second pereiopods, in poor condition. The Suqra specimens were found in association with H. spinigera . A common associate of Pocillopora corals.

References

Borradaile, L. A. (1917) On the Pontoniinae. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr J. Stanley Gardiner. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, 17, 323 - 396.

Bruce, A. J. (1973) The pontoniinid shrimps collected by the Yale-Seychelles Expedition, 1957 - 58 (Decapoda, Palaemonidae). Crustaceana, 24, 132 - 142.

Holthuis, L. B. (1951) A general Revision of the Palaemonidae (Crustacea Decapoda Natantia) of the Americas. II. The Subfamilies Euryrhynchinae and Pontoniinae. Allan Hancock Foundation Publication, Occasional Paper, 11, 1 - 332.

Stimpson, W. (1860) Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septemtrionalem a Republica Federato missa, C. Ringgold et J. Rodgers Ducibus, Observavit et descripsit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1860, 22 - 48.