Black And Silver Cuapetes Shrimp

Periclimenes grandis (Stimpson, 1860)

Anchistia grandis Stimpson, 1860:39 [type locality: Amami O Shima, Ryukyu Islands].

Periclimenes vitiensis Borradaile, 1898:383 [type locality: Viti Levu, Fiji Islands].—Bruce, 1978f:266, fig. 9.

Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) grandis.—Kemp, 1922:210, figs. 58, 59, pl. 7: fig. 10.

Periclimenes grandis.—Bruce, 1975f:23, fig. 1 [color]; 1976d:6, fig. 2; 1978a:217.—Devaney and Bruce, 1987:230.

DIAGNOSIS.—Integument smooth, not pitted, on lateral areas of carapace and abdomen; rostrum reaching to slightly beyond level of distal end of antennal scale, palaemonoid, curving slightly anterodorsad, rostral formula 1–2 + 6–8/2–5, posteriormost tooth not widely separated from remainder of dorsal rostral series, situated posterior to level of hepatic spine; carapace with supraorbital spine, hepatic spine not noticeably larger than antennal spine, arising posteroventral to latter, not extending beyond anterior margin of carapace, orbital angle triangular, not ovate; abdomen without compressed dorsal prominence on 3rd somite, 6th somite about 1 times as long as 5th; telson with 2 pairs of dorsolateral spines anterior to posterior margin, anterior pair arising in anterior of length; eye with cornea hemispherical, not produced distally; antennular peduncle with 1 distolateral spine on basal segment; antennal scale about 4 times as long as wide, lateral margin concave, distolateral tooth distinctly overreaching distal margin of blade; 4th thoracic sternite with slender median process; 1st pereopod overreaching antennal scale by length of fingers, latter not pectinate on opposable margins; 2nd pereopod with fingers to as long as palm, carpus – as long as palm, 4 to more than 5 times as long as distal width, with 1 distal spine, merus with distinct distal tooth on flexor margin; 3rd pereopod with dactyl not subdistally truncate, without denticulate lobe on flexor margin, simple, not biunguiculate, flexor margin concave, propodus with few spinules on flexor margin, not segmented; 5th pereopod not overreaching antennal scale; uropod overreaching extended telson; maximum postorbital carapace length nearly 4 mm.

RANGE.—Red Sea to Mozambique, eastward to Ryukyu Islands, Kyushu, Indonesia, Great Barrier Reef of Australia, Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu.

Periclimenes grandis (Stimpson, 1860)

Restricted synonymy:

Anchistia grandis Stimpson, 1860, p. 34.

Periclimenes grandis Borradaile, 1898, p. 382.—Evans, 1967, p. 402.—Kalk, 1958, p. 126.

Periclimenes (Falciger) grandis Borradaile, 1917, p. 370.

Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) grandis Kemp, 1922, pp. 171 (key), 210, figs. 58-59, pl. 7 (fig. 10.—Barnard, 1950, p. 794.

Periclimenes (Harpilius) grandis Holthuis, 1952, p. 11, 79 [full synonymy]; 1958, p. 8.—Barnard, 1955, p. 48.—Johnson, 1961, pp. 58, 62, tab. 1 (p. 76).

MATERIAL EXAMINED—(1) Mounimeri Is., Zaoudzi, le Mayotte, Comoro Islands, 23 November 1964, 1 ovig. (2) Resource Is., St. Joseph Atoll, Amirante Islands, 8 December 1964, 3 ovig. , 5 juv. (3) Gold Mohur Bay, Aden, 21 December 1964, 1 , 1 ovig. .

DISTRIBUTION.—Red Sea and East Africa to Japan and the Great Barrier Reef. Previously recorded from East Africa, Mozambique, and Ceylon in the Indian Ocean.