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Kemponia elegans Paulson 1875

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Kemponia elegans (Paulson, 1875)

Anchistia elegans Paulson, 1875, 113, pl. 17, figure 1.

Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) elegans — Kemp, 1922: 215 –218, figures. 60–62. Kemponia elegans — Bruce, 2004: 14 –15.

Material examined 1ɗ, 1 ovig. Ψ, 1juv., MAP­151, ST­092, 12°40.519’N 4°04.170’E, Hawlaf Bay, E. of Hadibo, N coast, 4–5 m, 21 March 1999, 1 spm SMF 29211, 2 spms NHCY.

Habitat: Dead Acropora.

Regional records: Previously reported from Sa’udi Arabia (Holthuis, 1952), Koweit (Kemp, 1922), Aden (Bruce, 1971).

General distribution: Type locality: Red Sea. Ranges from the Red Sea to the Philippines, Marshall Islands and Great Barrier Reef.

Remarks: The specimens present no special features. It is suggested in Chace & Bruce (1993) that this species and K. grandis (Stimpson, 1860) may be junior synonyms. The situation is still in need of clarification.

Notes

Published as part of Bruce, A. J., 2006, Pontoniine shrimps (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the island of Socotra, with descriptions of new species of Dactylonia Fransen, 2002 and Periclimenoides Bruce, 1990, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 1137 on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.171992

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Palaemonidae
Genus
Kemponia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Paulson
Species
elegans
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Kemponia elegans Paulson, 1875 sec. Bruce, 2006

References

  • Paulson, O. (1875) Investigations on the Crustacea of the Red Sea w ith notes on Crustacea of adjacent seas. Part 1. Podophthalmata and Edriophthalmata (Cumacea), pp. i - xiv, 1 - 144. Kiev.
  • Kemp, S. (1922) Notes on Crustacea Decapoda in the Indian Museum. XV. Pontoniinae. Records of the Indian Museum, 24, 113 - 288.
  • Bruce, A. J. (2004) A partial revision of the genus Periclimenes Costa, 1884 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Zootaxa, 582: 1 - 26.
  • 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.
  • Bruce, A. J. (1971) Pontoniinid shrimps from the Ninth Cruise of the R / V Anton Bruun, IIOE, 1964: I. Palaemonella Dana and Periclimenes Costa. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 82, 1 - 13.
  • 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, i - vii, 1 - 252.
  • Stimpson, W. (1860) Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septemtrionalem a Republica Federato missa, C. Ringgold et J. Rodgers Ducibus, Observavit et descripsit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1860, 22 - 48.