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Periclimenella petitthouarsii Audouin 1826

Description

Periclimenella petitthouarsii (Audouin, 1826)

Palaemon Petitthouarsii Audouin, 1826: 91.

Anchistia inaequimana Heller, 1861: 28.

Anchistia Petitthouarsii — Paulson, 1875: 114.

Periclimenes Petitthouarsi — Borradaile, 1898: 381.

Periclimenes (Falciger) petitthouarsi — Borradaile, 1917: 369.

Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) petitthouarsi — Kemp, 1922: 196.

Periclimenes (Harpilius) petitthouarsi — Holthuis, 1952: 78.

Periclimenella petitthouarsii — Ďuriš and Bruce, 1995: 645 –656, figs 13–18. — Li, 2000: 143, fig. 177. — Bruce, 2006: 20. — Li and Bruce, 2006: 670.

Material examined. St 27, 17/11/09, 10h–12h, islet Mbouzi, coral boulder, south-eastern, 12°48'55.86"S, 45°14'23.21"E, coll. KUW fieldwork, scuba diving 4–20 m, silted coral pinnacles, 1 male (both second pereiopods lost), MNHN-Na 17556; St 30, 18/11/09, 14h30–16h, Rani reef, double barrier, 12°56'34.23"S, 45° 3'20.75"E, coll. KUW fieldwork, scuba diving 3–15 m, outer slope of reef, 1 male, 2 ovigerous females (all lost their second pereiopods), MNHN-Na 17559.

Distribution. Type locality Egypt. Also known from Red Sea, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Eritrea, Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Comoro Islands, Madagascar, and Persian Gulf.

Remarks. The specimens agree with the previous descriptions and illustrations. The species was not previously recorded from Mayotte with certainty.

Notes

Published as part of Li, Xinzheng, Cleva, Régis & Poupin, Joseph, 2012, Report on some caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Mayotte, southwest Indian Ocean, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 3162 on pages 20-21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.246311

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