Coralliocaris viridis Bruce 1974
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Description
Coralliocaris viridis Bruce, 1974
(fig. 6)
Coralliocaris viridis Bruce, 1974: 222, fig. 1A, B; 2007: 102. — Poupin, 1998: 14. — Li, 2000: 38, fig. 38; 2008a: 206. — Li and Bruce, 2006: 630. — Mitsuhashi and Takeda, 2008: 22.
Material examined. St 14, 09/11/2009, 10h–12h, La Prudente bank, 12°38'50.68"S, 44°58'41.93"E, coll. KUW fieldwork, scuba diving 15–17 m, sediment suction pump, sandy bottom, coral boulders, 1 male (LC 3.6 mm, LT 22 mm), 1 ovigerous female (LC 3.4 mm, LT 19.6 mm), MNHN-Na 15994.
Colouration (fig. 6). Body transparent, covered with minute red spots, tips of antennal scales and legs, eyestalks and distal part of abdomen reddish, with more red spots.
Distribution. Type locality Mombassa, Kenya. Also known from Madagascar, Mayotte, Mozambique, Seychelles, Maldives Islands, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Ryukyu Islands, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Western Australia, Society Islands, Tuamotu.
Remarks. The specimens agree well with the previous descriptions and illustrations. The species was not previously recorded with certainty from Mayotte, although it was recorded from Madagascar and Mozambique. This is the first time to report the colouration of the species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Palaemonidae
- Genus
- Coralliocaris
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Bruce
- Species
- viridis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Coralliocaris viridis Bruce, 1974 sec. Li, Cleva & Poupin, 2012
References
- Bruce, A. J. (1974) Coralliocaris viridis sp. nov., a preliminary note (Decapoda Natantia, Pontoniinae). Crustaceana, 26 (2), 222 - 224, fig. 1.
- 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 (Decapoda, Palaemonidae). Xueyuan Press, Beijing. 319 pp.
- 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.
- Mitsuhashi, M. & Takeda, M. (2008) Identity of the coral-associated pontoniine shrimp species, Coralliocaris nudirostris (Heller, 1861) and C. venusta Kemp, 1922 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa, 1703, 1 - 24, figs. 1 - 14.