Kemponia ensifrons
Creators
- 1. Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071 (China) lixzh @ ms. qdio. ac. cn
Description
Kemponia ensifrons (Dana, 1852)
Anchistia ensifrons Dana, 1852: 25.
Periclimenes ensifrons – Nobili 1907: 359.— Chace & Bruce 1993: 111. — Poupin 1998: 16. — Li 2000: 180.
Kemponia ensifrons – Bruce 2004b: 15. — Li & Bruce 2006: 644, figs 4, 5.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Austral Is. Rapa I., Mei Point, BENTHAUS, malacologist fieldwork, stn 30, 27°38.2’S, 144°18.2’W, 16-20 m, dead coral, above barrier, 16- 18.XI.2002, 2 ♀♀ (1 ovig.) (MNHN-Na 15468). —Teruametitoi Point, BENTHAUS, malacologist fieldwork, stn 33, 27°34.8’S, 144°18.6’W, 30 m, dead coral, 19.XI.2002, 1 ovig. ♀ (MNHN-Na 15469).
DISTRIBUTION. — Type locality: Balabac Strait, North Borneo. Previously also reported from Egyptian Red Sea, Zanzibar, Comoro Is, Seychelles, Burma, China, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Marshall Is and French Polynesia (Tuamotu Is); 0-35 m depth. Not reported previously from Austral Is.
REMARKS
The present specimens have the carpus of second pereiopod long, about 1.3 times the merus length, subequal or distinctly longer than the palm, unarmed distally; rostral dentition is 1+6-8/2.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Palaemonidae
- Genus
- Kemponia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Dana
- Species
- ensifrons
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Kemponia ensifrons (Dana, 1852) sec. Li, 2008
References
- DANA J. D. 1852. - Conspectus of the Crustacea of the Exploring Expedition under Capt. C. Wilkes U. S. N. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1852: 10 - 28.
- NOBILI G. 1907. - Ricerche sui Crostacei della Polinesia. Decapodi, Stomatopodi, Anisopodi e Isopodi. Memorie della Reale Accademia della Sciieze di Torino (2) 57: 351 - 430, pls 1 - 3.
- CHACE F. A. JR & BRUCE A. J. 1993. - The caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition 1907 - 1910, part 6: superfamily Palaemonoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 543: 1 - 152, figs 1 - 23.
- POUPIN J. 1998. - Crustacea Decapoda and Stomatopoda of French Polynesia. Atoll Research Bulletin 451: 1 - 62, figs 1 - 9.
- LI X. 2000. - Catalog of the genera and species of Pontoniinae Kingsley, 1878. Xueyuan Press, Beijing, iv + 319 p., 408 figs.
- BRUCE A. J. 2004 b. - A partial revision of the genus Periclimenes Costa, 1884 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Zootaxa 582: 1 - 26.
- LI X. & BRUCE A. J. 2006. - Further Indo-West Pacific palaemonoid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonoidea), principally from the New Caledonian region. Journal of Natural History 40 (11 - 12): 611 - 738, figs 1 - 31.