Species Periclimenes burrup Bruce, 2007

Museums

Regional Maps

• Periclimenes burrup Bruce, A.J. 2007. Palaemonoid shrimps from the Dampier Archipelago Crustacea: Decapoda), with a review of the Western Australian pontoniine shrimp fauna. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement No. 3: 97-129 [113].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM C 25672 ovig. female, CL 2.0; carapace and rostrum 3.8; total body length ca. 11.0; major second pereiopod chela 3.3; minor second pereiopod chela 2.2; length of ovum 0.5, WA, Burrup Pen. [20°31.59'S 116°52.09'E].
  Paratype(s) WAM C 35561 1 male, WA, stn DA1/98/30, Burrup Pen. [20°31.59'S 116°52.09'E]; WAM C 35562 1 female, WA, stn DA1/98/30, Burrup Pen. [20°31.59'S, 116°52.09'E].

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29)

Ecological Descriptors

Host, including soft coral (Dendronephthea sp., Alcyonacea) and unidentified sponge

General References

Bruce, A.J. & Coombes, K.E. 1995. The palaemonoid shrimp fauna (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) of the Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 12: 101-144 [133] (missindetification as Periclimenes sinensis)

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