Species Conchodytes meleagrinae Peters, 1852

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• Conchodytes meleagrinae Peters, W. 1852. Conchodytes, eine neue in Muschheln lebende Gattung von Garneelen. Berichte Verhandlungen Akademie Berlin 1852: 588-595 [594].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB ♂ ♀, Ibo, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, SE coast of Africa.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west central Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Commensal, coral reef, littoral, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Associated with pearl oysters in the genus Pinctada and Spondylus (see Fransen & Reijnen 2013).

 

General References

Bruce, A.J. 1991. Shallow-water Palaemonoid shrimps from New Caledonia (Crustacea: Decapoda). Le benthos des fonds meubles des lagons de Nouvelle–Calédonie. Études et Théses, ORSTOM, Paris. 221-279 figs 1-31 pp.

Fransen, C.H.J.M. & Reijnen, B.T. 2013. Caught in speciation? A new host for Conchodytes meleagrinae Peters, 1852 (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae). Zootaxa 3721: 265-280

 

History of changes

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