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Palaemon ritteri Holmes 1895

Description

Palaemon ritteri Holmes, 1895

Palaemon Ritteri Holmes, 1895: 579.

Palaemon ritteri Kingsley, 1899: 37.

Palaemon (Palaemon) ritteri Holthuis, 1950a: 8, 1952: 173; Gomes-Correa, 1980: 259; Ramos-Porto & Coelho, 1990: 98, 1998: 336.

Material examined. PARÁ: São João de Pirabas, Ilha de Fortaleza, 9 males, 8 females, 2 ovigerous females, (MNRJ-1037); CEARÁ: Fortaleza, Praia do Morro Branco, 1 ovigerous female, (MNRJ-1036).

Diagnosis. Rostrum high, overreaching scaphocerite, dorsal margin with 8 to 10 teeth, first 2 teeth behind orbit, ventral margin with 3 teeth. Second pair of pereopods longer than first pair, reaching scaphocerite, fingers shorter than palm, dactyl with 2 teeth at proximal part of cutting edge, fixed finger bearing a tooth, which is placed between 2 teeth of dactyl, carpus shorter than merus.

Distribution. Western Atlantic Ocean: Panama, Venezuela, Brasil (Pará, Ceará). Oriental Pacific Ocean:

USA (California), Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador (Galápagos Islands), Peru.

Notes

Published as part of Ferreira, Rodrigo Simões, Vieira, Rony Roberto Ramos & D'Incao, Fernando, 2010, The marine and estuarine shrimps of the Palaemoninae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Brazil, pp. 1-24 in Zootaxa 2606 on page 19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.197695

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Holmes
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Palaemonidae
Genus
Palaemon
Species
ritteri
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Palaemon ritteri Holmes, 1895 sec. Ferreira, Vieira & D'Incao, 2010

References

  • Holmes, S. J. (1895) Notes on west American crustacea. Proceedings of the California Academy of Science, ser. 2, 4, 563 - 588.
  • Kingsley, J. S. (1899) The caridea of North America. Synopses of North-American Invertebrates. III. American Naturalist, 33, 709 - 720.
  • Holthuis, L. B. (1950 a) The Palaemonidae collected by the Siboga and Snellius Expeditions with Remarks on other Species. I. Subfamily Palaemoninae. The Decapoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part X. Siboga Expeditie, 39 a 9, 268 p.
  • Ramos-Porto, M. & Coelho, P. A. (1990) Sinopse dos crustaceos decapodos Brasileiros. Anais da Sociedade Nordestina de Zoologia, 3, 93 - 111.