Species Paranchistus armatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pontonia armata Milne Edwards, H. 1837. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret Vol. 2 532 pp., Atlas 32 pp., 42 pls. [359].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 1♀ 1♂, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
• Anchistus biunguiculatus Borradaile, L.A. 1898. A revision of the Pontoniidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2(7): 376-391 [387].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) UMZC, Tubetube, Engineer Group, Papua New Guinea.
• Anchistus oshimai Kubo, I. 1949. Studies on Penaeids of Japan and its adjacent waters. Journal of the Tokyo College of Fisheries [currently Journal of the Tokyo University of Fisheries] 36(1): 1-467 figs 1-160 [26].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bruce, A.J. 1967. The results of the re-examination of the type specimens of some pontoniid shrimps in the collection of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Bull. Mus. nat. Hist. Nat. (2) 39(3):. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2 39(3): 564-572 [564]
• Bruce, A.J. 1975. Pontonia armata H. Milne-Edwards (Decapoda Natantia, Pontoniinae), — a correction. Crustaceana 29(1): 49-54 figs 1-3
• 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 [357]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

East Indo-west Central Pacific (Indonesia to Gilbert and Marshall Islands).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, low intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

In heterosexual pairs, exclusively in mantle cavity of the giant clam, Tridacna gigas.

 

General References

Bruce, A.J. 2000. Biological observations on the commensal shrimp Paranchistus armatus (H. Milne Edwards) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae). The Beagle. Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 16: 91-96

 

History of changes

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