Ischnopontonia lophos ( Barnard, 1962 )

Li, Xinzheng & Bruce, Alexander J., 2006, Further Indo-West Pacific palaemonoid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonoidea), principally from the New Caledonian region, Journal of Natural History 40 (11 - 12), pp. 611-738 : 638

Ischnopontonia lophos ( Barnard, 1962)

Philarius lophos Barnard 1962, p 242 , Figure 2 .

Ischnopontonia lophos: Bruce 1966a, p 584 , Figures 1–5 ; Bruce 1976a, p 120; Bruce and Coombes 1995, p 109; De Grave 2000, p 125, Figure 2 ; Li 2000, p 67, Figure 68; Li and Liu 2003, p 156, Figure 2 .

Material examined Madagascar: Tuléar , Grand Récif, coll. R. Hipeau-Jacquotte, 1968, 1 „, 3♀♀ (2 ovig.)

(MNHN-Na 15832).

Host

Galaxea sp. [ Oculinidae , Scleractinia ].

Remarks

First recorded from Madagascar by Bruce (1976a).

Distribution

Type locality: Inhaca Island , Mozambique . Also known from Kenya, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Comoro Islands, Madagascar, Seychelles, Malaya, Singapore, South China Sea, Ryukyu Islands , Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland), Caroline Islands , and Fiji.

Figures

Figure 1. Palaemonetes atrinubes Bray, 1976, ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14843). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) anterior carapace; (c) distal part of proximal peduncular segment; (d) antennal scale; (e) distal telson; (f) mandible; (g) first pereiopod; (h) same, chela; (i) second pereiopod; (j) same, chela; (k) third pereiopod; (l) same, propod and dactyl; (m) same, distal propod and dactyl.

Figure 2. Harpiliopsis spinigera (Ortmann, 1880), male (MNHN-Na 15838). (a) Second pereiopod; (b) same, fingers.

Figure 3. Kemponia agag (Kemp, 1922), male (MNHN-Na 14877). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) antennal scale; (c) second pereiopod, ischium, merus, and carpus; (d) same, chela; (e) same, fingers; (f) same, article of carpus and chela; (g) proximal fingers; (h) third pereiopod, propod and dactyl; (i) same, distal propod and dactyl.

Figure 4. Kemponia ensifrons (Dana, 1852), ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14891). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) anterior carapace; (c) antennule; (d) antenna.

Figure 5. Kemponia ensifrons (Dana, 1852), ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14891). (a) Second pereiopod; (b) same, chela and carpus; (c) third pereiopod, propod and dactyl; (d) same, distal propod and dactyl.