Periclimenes forcipulatus Bruce, 1991

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 : 686

Periclimenes forcipulatus Bruce, 1991

Periclimenes forcipulatus Bruce 1991a, p 330 , Figures 21–25 ; Li 2000, p 181, Figure 227.

Material examined

Solomon Islands: SALOMON 1, stn DW 1854, 9 ° 46.49S, 160 ° 52.99E, 229–260 m, 7 October 2001, 1♀ (MNHN-Na 15536) .

Remarks

Not previously recorded from Solomon Islands. The present record extends the bathymetric range to the shallower depth of 229 m.

Distribution

Type locality: Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia , 460 m. Now also known from Solomon Islands .

Figures

Figure 21. Periclimenes hertwigi Balss, 1913. (a, h) Ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14899); (b, e, g, i) male (MNHN-Na 14899); (c, d, f) ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14896); j, k, male (MNHN-Na 14901). (a) Anterior carapace; (b) rostrum; (c) distal antennal scale; (d–f) first pereiopod, chela, lateral view; (g, h) second pereiopod, chela; (i) same, fingers; (j) third pereiopod, distal propod and dactyl; (k) same, distoventral angle of corpus.

Figure 22. Periclimenes involens Bruce, 1996, ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14912), carapace.

Figure 23. Periclimenes lanipes Kemp, 1922. a, c, ovigerous female; (b) male (MNHN-Na 14913). (a, b) Carapace; (c) eye.

Figure 24. Periclimenes loyautensis, new species, holotype ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14947). (a) Carapace; (b) telson; (c) same, distal part; (d) eye, distal view; (e) minor second pereiopod; (f) same, fingers; (g) third pereiopod, propod and dactyl; (h) same, distal propod and dactyl.

Figure 25. Periclimenes macrophthalmus Fujino and Miyake, 1970, ovigerous female (MNHN-Na 14620). (a) Carapace and anterior appendages; (b) right second pereiopod; (c) fingers of left pereiopod pereiopod. Scale bars: 1.41 mm (a); 2.24 mm (b); 0.5 mm (c).