Jocaste lucina Nobili 1901
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Description
Jocaste lucina (Nobili, 1901)
Coralliocaris lucina Nobili, 1901: 5.
Jocaste lucina — Holthuis, 1952: 193 –195, Figure 94 (partim). Jocaste lucina — Patton, 1966: 278 –279, Figure 3 A.
Material examined. (1) 2 spms, MAP064, ST016, 12°40.264’N 53°27.204’E, SW of Qualansiyah, NWcoast, 5–7 m, 3 March 1999, NHCY. (2) 7 spms (4 ovig.Ψ), MAP158, ST095, 12°40.156’N 54°02.850’E, Shanitan, E of Hadibo, N coast, 8 m, 22 March 1999, SMF 29201.
Hosts: (2), Acropora cf. valida (Dana) [Scleractinia].
Regional records: Numerous records from the Red Sea and also reported from Aden (Bruce, 1969) and the Maldive Islands (Bruce, 1969).
General distribution: Type locality: Eritrea. Common throughout much of the Indo West Pacific, where there are coral reefs, east to the Fijian Islands and Johnson Atoll.
Remarks: Specimens (1) in poor condition. Specimens (2) found in association with Jocaste japonica. A common associate of Acropora corals.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Palaemonidae
- Genus
- Jocaste
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Nobili
- Species
- lucina
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Jocaste lucina Nobili, 1901 sec. Bruce, 2006
References
- Nobili, G. (1901) Decapodi e Stomatopodi Eritrei del Museo Zoologico dell'Universita di Napoli. Annuario del Museo Zoologico della R. Universita di Napoli, 1, 1 - 20.
- Holthuis, L. B. (1952) The Decapoda of the Siboga Expedition. Part XI. The Palaemonidae collected by the Siboga and Snellius Expeditions with remarks on other species. II. Subfamily Pontoniinae. Siboga Expedition Monograph, 39 a 10, 1 - 252.
- Patton, W. K. (1966) Decapod crustacea commensal with Queensland branching corals. Crustaceana, 10, 271 - 295.
- Bruce, A. J. (1969) Observations upon the host-specificity and distribution of Jocaste japonica (Ortmann) and Jocaste lucina (Nobili) (Decapoda Natantia, Pontoniinae). Crustaceana, 17, 298 - 302.