Kemponia calmani ( Tattersall, 1921 ) Tattersall, 1921

Bruce, A. J., 2004, A partial revision of the genus Periclimenes Costa, 1884 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), Zootaxa 582, pp. 1-26 : 13

Kemponia calmani ( Tattersall, 1921) comb. nov.

Periclimenes calmani Tattersall, 1921: 385 –386, pl. 27, fig. 11, pl. 28, figs. 4–15. — Gurney, 1927: 229, 264, figs 66–69. — Bruce, 1987a: 1415 –1425, figs. 1–5. — Li, 2000: 165 –166, fig. 204.

Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) calmani — Kemp, 1922: 176.

Type material. Lectotype Ψ, BMNH 1921.12.19.44; 3 Ψ paralectotypes BMNH 1921.12.19.45–47.

Type locality. Sudan, Red Sea coast, precise locality not designated.

Habitat. No data.

Bathymetric range. Shallow water.

Larvae. Zoeal Stages 1–5 ( Gurney, 1927).

Distribution. Known also from Egypt, Sudan, Malaya, Singapore, Indonesia, and eastern Mediterranean Sea ( Monod, 1930; Duris, 1987).

Remarks. One of the two pontoniine shrimps to have spread from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. The status of Johnson’s specimens referred to this species, from Malaya and Singapore ( Johnson, 1962), need to be re­assessed. Unfortunately it is unlikely that this material is still extant (P.K.L. Ng, pers. com.).

The Indonesian specimens described by Holthuis (1952), as Periclimenes (Harpilius) ? calmani , one from 120–400 m, seem unlikely to be conspecific with the shallow water species and are intermediate with Periclimenes leptopus Kemp, 1922 . It is at present uncertain whether or not P. leptopus , a shallow water species, in the collection of the Zoological Survey of India, should be referred to the genus Kemponia .