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nearly or quite as long as palm, carpus also about as long as
palm, about 3'/2 times as long as distal width, without distal
spines, merus without distal tooth on flexor margin; 3rd
pereopod with dactyl not subdistally truncate, without denticulate
lobe on flexor margin, biunguiculate, flexor margin
variably sinuous, propodus with few spinules on flexor margin,
not segmented; 5th pereopod not reaching far beyond end of
antennal scale; uropod overreaching extended telson; maximum
postorbital carapace length about 3'A mm.
MATERIAL.—PHILIPPINES. Sulu Sea, northeast of Dumaran
Island: sta 5423; 10°37'50"N, 120°12'E; 93 m; sand; 8
Apr 1909 (1534-1554); 6' McCormick-Blake beam trawl: 1
ovig female [6.0].
RANGE.—Red Sea and eastern Africa to Maldive Islands, Sri
Lanka, South China Sea, Hong Kong, Japan (?), Philippines,
Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, Lord Howe Island, New
Caledonia, Palau, and Marshall Islands; 34-45 m, associated
with sea anemones, corals, and medusae.
•131. Periclimenes incertus Borradaile, 1915
Periclimenes (Cristiger) incertus Borradaile, 1915:210 [type locality: Maldive
Islands]; 1917:364, pi. 53: fig. 7.
Periclimenes (Periclimenes) impar Kemp, 1922:140,147, figs. 16, 17, pi. 3:
fig. 1 [type locality: Port Blair, Andaman Islands; 9 meters, on pinkish
sponge].
Periclimenes (Periclimenes) incertus.—Holthuis, 1959:193.
Periclimenes incertus.—Bruce. 1980a: 10, fig. 5.
DIAGNOSIS.—Integument smooth, not pitted, on lateral areas
of carapace and abdomen; rostrum not overreaching antennal
scale, palaemonoid, nearly horizontal, rostral formula 1-2 +
7-8/1-2, posteriormost tooth usually somewhat isolated from
remainder of dorsal rostral series, situated posterior to level of
hepatic spine; carapace without supraorbital or postorbital
spine, hepatic spine not noticeably larger than antennal spine,
arising posteroventral to latter, not extending beyond anterior
margin of carapace, orbital angle not ovate; abdomen without
compressed dorsal prominence on 3rd somite, 6th somite about
l 2 /3 times as long as 5th; telson with 2 pairs of dorsolateral
spines anterior to posterior margin, anterior pair arising at about
mid-length: eye with cornea hemispherical, not produced
distally; antennular peduncle with 1 distolateral spine on basal
segment; antennal scale about 3 '/s times as long as wide, lateral
margin slightly concave, distolateral tooth not quite reaching
level of distal margin of blade; 4th thoracic sternite without
slender median process; 1 st pereopod reaching about to distal
end of antennal scale, fingers not pectinate on opposable
margins; 2nd pereopod with fingers about 2 /3 as long as palm,
carpus about '/2 as long as palm, about 2'/3 times as long as
distal width, without distal spines, merus without distal tooth
on flexor margin; 3rd pereopod with dactyl not subdistally
truncate, without denticulate lobe on flexor margin, biunguiculate,
flexor margin concave, propodus with spinules on flexor
margin, not segmented; 5th pereopod overreaching antennal
scale; uropod overreaching extended telson; maximum postor-
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bital carapace length about 4 mm.
MATERIAL.—PHILIPPINES. Marungas Island (south side),
Sulu Archipelago; [6°06'N, 120°58'E]; 1 '/4-2'/2 mm; scattered
coral and sand; 10 Feb 1908 (1330-1500); diving, coral heads
taken shore: 1 male [2.1].—Off Jolo Island, Sulu Archipelago:
sta 5139; 6°06'N, 121°02'30"E; 37 m; coral sand; 14 Feb 1908
(1313-1317); 12' Agassiz beam trawl, mud bag: 1 female [1.7];
sta 5141; 6°09'N, 120°58'E; 53 m; coral sand; 15 Feb 1908
(0847-0905); 12' Agassiz beam trawl, mud bag: 1 male [1.9];
sta 5145; 6°04'30"N, 120°59'30"E; 42 m; coral sand, shells; 15
Feb 1908 (1344-1359); 12' Agassiz beam trawl, mud bag: 1
ovig female [2.0].—Near Siasi, Sulu Archipelago: sta 5147;
5°41'4O"N, 120°47'10"E; 38 m; coral sand, shells; 16 Feb 1908
(1127-1147); 12' Agassiz beam trawl, mud bag: 2 males [1.9,
1.9] 1 ovig female [1.9].
RANGE.—Aden to Madagascar, east to Philippines, Indonesia,
Australia, and New Caledonia; to a depth of 53 m.
(apparently a new depth record), associated with sponges.
132. Periclimenes indicus (Kemp, 1915)
Urocaris indica Kemp, 1915:275, fig. 26, pi. 13: fig. 9 [type locality: Chilka
Lake, Orissa, India; fresh and brackish water].
Periclimenes (Periclimenes) indicus.—Kemp, 1922:144, fig. 13.—Holthuis,
1952c:39, fig. 8.
DIAGNOSIS.—Integument smooth, not pitted, on lateral areas
of carapace and abdomen; rostrum not overreaching antennal
scale, crested above orbit, horizontal, rostral formula 2 +
6-8/1-3, posteriormost tooth isolated from remainder of
dorsal rostral series, situated posterior to level of hepatic spine;
carapace without supraorbital or postorbital spine, hepatic
spine not noticeably larger than antennal spine, arising
posteroventral to latter, not extending beyond anterior margin
of carapace, orbital angle ovate; abdomen without compressed
dorsal prominence on 3rd somite, 6th somite about twice as
long as 5th; telson with 2 pairs of dorsolateral spines anterior to
posterior margin, anterior pair arising at about mid-length; eye
with cornea hemispherical, not produced distally; antennular
peduncle with 1 distolateral spine on basal segment; antennal
scale 3'/3-3 3 /4 times as long as wide, lateral margin straight,
distolateral tooth not reaching level of distal margin of blade;
4th thoracic sternite without slender median process; 1st
pereopod not overreaching antennal scale; 2nd pereopod with
fingers fully as long as palm, carpus slightly more or less than
twice as long as palm, fully 5 times as long as distal width,
without distal spines, merus without distal tooth on flexor
margin; 3rd pereopod with dactyl not subdistally truncate,
without denticulate lobe on flexor margin, biunguiculate, flexor
margin concave, propodus with spinules on flexor margin, not
segmented; 5th pereopod overreaching antennal scale; uropod
overreaching extended telson; maximum postorbital carapace
length about 3 mm.
RANGE.—India, Nicobar Islands, Malaya, Singapore, Indonesia,
and Queensland, Australia; to a depth of 55 meters.