Jocaste japonica ( Ortmann, 1890 )

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 : 15

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Jocaste japonica ( Ortmann, 1890) View in CoL

Coralliocaris superba View in CoL var. japonica Ortmann, 1890: 509 . Jocaste japonica View in CoL — Holthuis, 1952: 193 –195 (partim).

Jocaste japonica View in CoL — Patton, 1966: 279 –280, Figure 3 View FIGURE 3 B.

Material examined. (1) 1 ovig. Ψ, MAP158, ST095, 12°40.156’N 54°02.850’E, Shanitan, E of Hadibo, N coast, 8 m, 22 March 1999, SMF 29200. (2) 1 spm., MAP159, ST095, 12°40.156’N 54°02.850’E, Shanitan, E of Hadibo, N coast, 8 m, 22 March 1999, NHCY.

Hosts: Acropora cf. valida (Dana) [ Scleractinia ].

Regional records: Not reported from the Red Sea, but known from Maldive Islands ( Borradaile, 1917).

General distribution: Type locality: Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan. Reported throughout much of the IndoWest Pacific region, where there are coral reefs, east to New Caledonia and the Fijian Islands.

Remarks: This report constitutes the most north westerly record from the Indian Ocean. Specimens (1) found in association with J. lucina . A common associate of Acropora 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.

Holthuis, L. B. (1952) The Decapoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part XI. The Palaemonidae collected by the Siboga and Snellius Expeditions with remarks on other species. II. Subfamily Pontoniinae. Siboga Expedition Monograph, 39 a 10, 1 - 252.

Ortmann, A. (1890) Die Unterordnung Natantia Boas. Die Dekapoden Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Doderlein bei Japan und bei der Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und z. Z. in Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen. I. Theil. Zoologischer Jahrbucher Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 5, 437 - 542.

Patton, W. K. (1966) Decapod crustacea commensal with Queensland branching corals. Crustaceana, 10, 271 - 295.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Dactylonia carinicula sp. nov .. paratype. (A), mandible. (B), maxillula. (C), maxilla. (D), first maxilliped. (E), second maxillped. (F), third maxilliped.