Species Rapipontonia galene (Holthuis, 1952)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Periclimenes galene Holthuis, L.B. 1952. The Palaemonidae collected by the Siboga and Snellius expeditions with remarks on other species II. Subfamily Pontoniinae. Siboga-Expéditie Report 39a 10: 1-254 [11, 62 fig. 24].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) RMNH D9038 1 specimen, Ambon, Indonesia; RMNH D9037 2 juveniles, small island near Menado, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

  Secondary source:

   Marin, I. 2007. A new genus and species of pontoniine shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae, Pontoniinae) associated with plumularid hydroids (Hydroidea, Pilumularidae) in Vietnam. Zoosystema 29(4): 775-786.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (eastern Africa, Indonesia, Philippines and Japan).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Reef, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

On hydroids, Lytocarpus philippinus and Aglaophenia species, depths of 18–26 m.

 

General References

Chace, F.A., Jr & Bruce, A.J. 1993. The Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910, Part 6: Superfamily Palaemonoidea. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 543: 1-152 [112]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Jul-2013		22-Jul-2013	MODIFIED
03-Jun-2011		03-Jun-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)