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Periclimenaeus hecate (Nobili, 1904)
Coralliocaris hecate Nobili, 1904:232 [type locality: Djibouti]; 1906:58, pl. 3: fig. 2.
Periclimenaeus hecate.—Bruce, 1974c: 1574. figs. 11. 12, 13E; 1976d:22, figs. 8–11.
DIAGNOSIS.—Rostral formula 0 + 4–5/0; carapace without supraorbital spine; telson with posterior pair of dorsolateral spines arising posterior to mid-length; antennal scale with distolateral tooth not overreaching distal margin of blade; 1st pereopod with fingers subequal to palm in length; major 2nd pereopod with merus not granulous or dentate on flexor margin; 3rd pereopod with dactyl simple, not biunguiculate, not segmented, without acute tooth at proximal end of flexor margin; postorbital carapace length less than 4 mm.
RANGE.—Western Indian Ocean to Indonesia and Great Barrier Reef of Australia; associated with ascidians.
- 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
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Three specimens have been reported from Watamu, Kenya.
Bruce, A.J. (1976). A synopsis of the pontoniid shrimp fauna of Central East Africa. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. India 16 (2): 462-490
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