Comprehensive Description
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Paranchistus armatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837)
P[ontonia] armata H. Milne Edwards, 1837:359 [type locality: New Ireland, Papua New Guinea].
Anchistus biunguiculatus Borradaile, 1898:387 [type locality: Tubetube, Engineer Group, Papua; in Tridacna].
Anchistus oshimai Kubo, 1949:26, figs. 1, 2 [type locality: Palau Islands].
Paranchistus biunguiculatus.—Holthuis, 1952c:93, figs. 36–38.
Paranchistus armatus.—Bruce, 1975e:49, figs. 1–3.
DIAGNOSIS.—Rostrum tapering toward apex in lateral aspect, directed somewhat ventrad; 1st pereopod with fingers subspatulate and pectinate on opposable margins; 2nd pereopod with movable finger longer than fixed finger, hooked distally; 3rd pereopod with dactyl biunguiculate, not flattened on extensor margin, not partially covered with spines or horny tubercles; maximum postorbital carapace length 15.3 mm.
RANGE.—Indonesia; New Guinea; Papua; Palau Islands; Queensland, Australia; New Ireland; and Gilbert and Marshall islands; in Tridacna.
- bibliographic citation
- Chace, Fenner Albert, Jr. and Bruce, A. J. 1993. "The caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition 1907-1910, Part 6: Superfamily Palaemonoidea." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-152. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.543
