Rostronia stylirostris
Creators
- 1. Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum - Naturalis, Postbus 9517, NL- 2300 RA Leiden (The Netherlands) fransen @ naturalis. nnm. nl.
Description
Rostronia stylirostris (Holthuis, 1952)
Pontonia stylirostris Holthuis, 1952: 169, figs 82-84 (type locality: between Pulau Misool and New Guinea, 1°42.5’S, 130°47.5’W, 32 m).
Rostronia stylirostris – Fransen 2002: 260-270, figs 171- 177.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Moçambique. Ibo Island, in lagoon, in Ascidia sydneiensis Stimpson, 1855, 11.XI.1995, 1 ovigerous ♀ pocl. 3.1 mm (MNHN-Na 15220).
REMARKS
Rostrum with two distal dorsal teeth. Fingers of minor chelae with 10 small teeth in proximal third of cutting edge.
The species has been recorded from the Red Sea, Oman and, Tanganyika, Australia, Misool, Indonesia, and New Guinea. This is the first record of the species for Moçambique.
Except for the reference to a “black ascidian” for the specimen from the Red Sea (Fransen 2002: 270) no hosts are known. Ascidia sydneiensis constitutes a new host record.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.5392396 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/C409FFCBFF93FFB2B008FFDB31581265 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/383087B3FF90FFB1B0DCFEE630061195 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Palaemonidae
- Genus
- Rostronia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Holthuis
- Species
- stylirostris
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rostronia stylirostris (Holthuis, 1952) sec. Fransen, 2006
References
- HOLTHUIS L. B. 1952. - The Decapoda of the Siboga Expedition XI. The Palaemonidae collected by the Siboga and Snellius Expeditions with remarks on other species. II. Subfamily Pontoniinae. Siboga Expedition Monographs 39 a 10: 1 - 253, figs 1 - 110, tab. 1.
- FRANSEN C. H. J. M. 2002. - Taxonomy, phylogeny, historical biogeography, and historical ecology of the genus Pontonia Latreille (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen 336: 1 - 433, figs 1 - 257, pls 1 - 19.