Species Cuapetes tenuipes (Borradaile, 1898)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Periclimenes tenuipes Borradaile, L.A. 1898. A revision of the Pontoniidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2(7): 376-391 [384].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) UMZC March1.1898 (redescribed and figured in Bruce, A.J. 1978. The re-examination of some pontiniine shrimp types first described by L.A. Borradaile (Decapoda, Palaemonidae). Crustaceana 34(3): 251–268 figs 1–9 [261–264, figs 6C, 7]), Ralun, New Britain.
• Periclimenes borradailei Rathbun, M.J. 1904. Decapod crustaceans of the northwest coast of North America. Harriman Alaska Expedition, New York 10: 1-190, text-figs 1-95 pls 1-10 [34] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Periclimenes tenuipes Borradaile, 1898].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.
• Periclimenes (Falciger) kolumadulensis Borradaile, L.A. 1915. Notes on Carides. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 15: 205-213 [213].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) UMZC AR3.1920 (redescribed and figured in Bruce, A.J. 1978. The re-examination of some pontiniine shrimp types first described by L.A. Borradaile (Decapoda, Palaemonidae). Crustaceana 34(3): 251–268 figs 1–9 [261–4, figs 6A, B]), Kolumadulu Atoll, Maldive Islands.

  Secondary source:

   De Grave, S. & Fransen, C.H.J.M. 2011. Carideorum Catalogus: The recent species of the Dendrobrachiate, Stenopodidean, Procarididean and Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 85(9): 195-589, figs 1-59 [347].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kemp, S. 1922. Notes on Crustacea Decapoda in the Indian Museum. Part XV. Pontoniinae. Records of the Indian Museum XXIV: 113-288 pls 3-9 [220]

 

Generic Combinations

• Kemponia tenuipes (Borrodaile, 1898). —
  Bruce, A.J. 2004. A partial revision of the genus Periclimenes Costa, 1884 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Zootaxa 582: 1-26

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific Oceans (East Africa and Red Sea to Indonesia, Philippines, Palau and Marshall Islands).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal pools at extreme low spring tides, generally free-living, but also reported associated with anemones, nocturnal, depths 14 to 24 m.

 

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 [135]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Jul-2013		26-Nov-2013	MODIFIED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)