Kemponia seychellensis ( Borradaile, 1915 ) Borradaile, 1915

Bruce, A. J., 2004, A partial revision of the genus Periclimenes Costa, 1884 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), Zootaxa 582, pp. 1-26 : 19

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.157391
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6271055
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scientific name	Kemponia seychellensis ( Borradaile, 1915 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Kemponia seychellensis ( Borradaile, 1915) comb. nov.

Periclimenes (Falciger) seychellensis Borradaile, 1915: 212 View in CoL ;: 324, 375, pls. 54–55, fig. 14. Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) seychellensis View in CoL — Kemp, 1922: 176 –178, figs 34–35, pl. 6 fig. 7. Periclimenes (Harpilius) seychellensis View in CoL — Holthuis, 1952: 66 –67, fig. 25.

Periclimenes seychellensis View in CoL — Bruce, 1971: 8. — Li, 2000: 235 –236, fig. 313. — Jayachandran, 2001: 314 –316, fig. 92.

Type material. Holotype, ZMC I.9594.5.

Type locality. Praslin, Seychelle Islands.

Habitat. Amongst sea grasses and algae, including offshore floating Sargassum .

Bathymetric range. Shallow water.

Distribution. Also known from Kenya, Zanzibar, Tanganyika, Moçambique, Madagascar, Seychelle Islands, Pakistan, India, Andaman Islands, Singapore, Indonesia, China, Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia. Remarks. The only Kemponia species commonly found in floating Sargassum .