Periclimenaeus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Caridea
Superfamilia: Palaemonoidea

Familia: Palaemonidae
Subfamilia: Pontoniinae
Genus: Periclimenaeus
Species: P. ancylodactylus – P. colemani – P. creefi – P. dactylodon – P. denticulodigitus – P. devaneyi – P. echinimanus – P. forcipulatus – P. heronensis – P. mcmichaeli – P. nufu – P. parkeri – P. pectinidactylus – P. pulitzerfinali
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Name

Periclimenaeus Borradaile, 1915

Primary references

Borradaile 1915: Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (8) 15, 207.

References

Bruce, A.J. 2010: Periclimenaeus devaneyi sp. nov., from Oahu, Hawai'i (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae). Pp. 379-388 in De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (eds.): Contributions to shrimp taxonomy. Zootaxa, 2372: 1–414. Preview PDF
Bruce, A.J. 2010: More pontoniine shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from the CReefs 2009 Heron Island expedition. Zootaxa, 2604: 20–36. Preview
Bruce, A.J. 2014: Periclimenaeus denticulodigitus sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae), from Heron Island, Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 3753(1): 71–78. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3753.1.6 Reference page.
Bruce, A.J. 2014: Periclimenaeus species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from Hawaii. Zootaxa 3754(4): 461–472. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.7 Reference page.
Bruce, A.J. 2014: Notes on some Indo-Pacific Pontoniinae, LIV. New Periclimenaeus species (Decapoda, Pontoniinae), from Cartier Island reef, Western Australia. Crustaceana, 87(1): 64–82. DOI: 10.1163/15685403-00003272 Reference page.
Ďuriš, Z.; Horká, I.; Al–Horani, F. 2011: Periclimenaeus echinimanus sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae), a new species from the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Zootaxa, 2983: 57–68. Preview
Ďuriš, Z.; Horká, I.; Hok, D.T. 2009: Periclimenaeus nufu, a new species of shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from Vietnam. Raffles bulletin of zoology, 57: 453–464. PDF
Ďuriš, Z.; Horká, I.; Sandford, F. 2009: Periclimenaeus pectinidactylus n. sp. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from the Belizean Barrier Reef, Caribbean Sea. Zootaxa, 2130: 31–40. Abstract & excerpt
Ramos-Tafur, G.E. & Lemaitre, R. 2017. A new species of shrimp of the genus Periclimenaeus Borradaile, 1915 (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, including a key to the western Atlantic species of the genus. Zootaxa 4303(4): 401–508. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4303.4.3. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Periclimenaeus is a genus of decapod crustaceans of the family Palaemonidae which is part of the infraorder Caridea. The genus was named by the English carcinologist Lancelot Alexander Borradaile in 1915. He set out the distinguishing features of the genus as:

Body rather stout, cephalothorax deep, a good deal compressed, abdomen greatly curved Thorax without dorsal swelling. Rostrum rather short, compressed, toothed above only. Outer antennular flagellum not deeply cleft. Antennal scale of good breadth. Mandible without palp. Second maxilliped without podopalp. Third maxilliped narrow, with vestigial arthrobranch.
— L.A. Borradaile, [2]

Pericimaenaeus robustus is known only from the type specimen which was collected off Amirante Islands by the Western Indian Ocean Expeditions of Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner and described in 1915 and again in 1917 by Borradaile, it was re-described by Dr A.J. "Sandy" Bruce of the Queensland Museum in 2005.[3]
Biological notes

Periclimenaeus consists of number of species of small shrimps classified in the subfamily Pontoniinae. They occur mainly in tropical seas, especially in and around coral reefs. Periclimanaeus shrimps live in association with a variety of hosts, mostly sponges and ascidian tunicates, where they normally live in the hosts' internal cavities as pairs formed of a male and a female. Characteristics of the genus include the presence of grossly unequal chelae on the second pair of walking legs, the larger of which has a conspicuous molar process on the seventh and terminal segment of the leg, which sits opposite a depression on the fixed finger, this is used to produce sound, a feature which is convergent with similar structures in the related genus Coralliocaris and in some unrelated genera of snapping shrimps from the family Alpheidae.[4]
Species

Periclimenaeus is the genus in the Palaemonidae with the second highest number of species with their distribution centred on the Indo-West Pacific region where there are 60 or so species with a further 14 identified so far in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific. The first species to be described was described from specimens caught in the Torres Strait by HMS Alert during 1881-82. These specimens were described by Edward J. Miers as Coralliocaris tridendatus, this was then assigned to Periclimenaeus as P. tridentatus after Borradaile named the genus.[5]

The following species are currently recognised:[6]

Periclimenaeus ancylodactylus Bruce, 2014
Periclimenaeus arabicus (Calman, 1939)
Periclimenaeus ardeae Bruce, 1970
Periclimenaeus arthrodactylus Holthuis, 1952
Periclimenaeus ascidiarum Holthuis, 1951
Periclimenaeus atlanticus (Rathbun, 1901)
Periclimenaeus aurae dos Santos, Calado & Araújo, 2008
Periclimenaeus aurantiacus Bruce, 2014
Periclimenaeus bermudensis (Armstrong, 1940)
Periclimenaeus bidentatus Bruce, 1970
Periclimenaeus bouvieri (Nobili, 1904)
Periclimenaeus bredini Chace, 1972
Periclimenaeus brucei Cardoso & Young, 2007
Periclimenaeus calmani Bruce, 2012
Periclimenaeus caraibicus Holthuis, 1951
Periclimenaeus chacei Abele, 1971
Periclimenaeus colemani Bruce, 2014
Periclimenaeus colodactylus Bruce, 1996
Periclimenaeus crassipes (Calman, 1939)
Periclimenaeus creefi Bruce, 2010
Periclimenaeus crosnieri Cardoso & Young, 2007
Periclimenaeus dactylodon Bruce, 2012
Periclimenaeus denticulodigitus Bruce, 2014
Periclimenaeus devaneyi Bruce, 2010
Periclimenaeus diplosomatis Bruce, 1980
Periclimenaeus djiboutensis Bruce, 1970
Periclimenaeus echinimanus Ďuriš, Horka & Al-Horani, 2011
Periclimenaeus edmondsoni Bruce, 2013
Periclimenaeus fawatu Bruce, 2006
Periclimenaeus forcipulatus Bruce, 2014
Periclimenaeus garthi Bruce, 1976
Periclimenaeus gorgonidarum (Balss, 1913)
Periclimenaeus hancocki Holthuis, 1951
Periclimenaeus hebedactylus Bruce, 1970
Periclimenaeus hecate (Nobili, 1904)
Periclimenaeus heronensis Bruce, 2010
Periclimenaeus holthuisi Bruce, 1969
Periclimenaeus jeancharcoti Bruce, 1991
Periclimenaeus kottae Bruce, 2005
Periclimenaeus leptodactylus Fujino & Miyake, 1968
Periclimenaeus lobiferus Bruce, 1978
Periclimenaeus manihinei Bruce, 1976
Periclimenaeus marini Bruce, 2013
Periclimenaeus matherae Bruce, 2005
Periclimenaeus maxillulidens (Schmitt, 1936)
Periclimenaeus minutus Holthuis, 1952
Periclimenaeus mortenseni Bruce, 1993
Periclimenaeus myora Bruce, 1998
Periclimenaeus nielbrucei Bruce, 2006
Periclimenaeus nobilii Bruce, 1975
Periclimenaeus nufu Ďuriš, Horká & Hoc, 2009
Periclimenaeus orbitocarinatus Fransen, 2006
Periclimenaeus orontes Bruce, 1986
Periclimenaeus pachydentatus Bruce, 1969
Periclimenaeus pachyspinosus Marin, 2007
Periclimenaeus pacificus Holthuis, 1951
Periclimenaeus palauensis Miyake & Fujino, 1968
Periclimenaeus parkeri Bruce, 2012
Periclimenaeus pearsei (Schmitt, 1932)
Periclimenaeus pectinidactylus Ďuriš, Horká & Sandford, 2009
Periclimenaeus perlatus (Boone, 1930)
Periclimenaeus pulitzerfinali Bruce, 2011
Periclimenaeus quadridentatus (Rathbun, 1906)
Periclimenaeus rastrifer Bruce, 1980
Periclimenaeus rhodope (Nobili, 1904)
Periclimenaeus robustus Borradaile, 1915
Periclimenaeus schmitti Holthuis, 1951
Periclimenaeus serenei Bruce, 2012
Periclimenaeus serrula Bruce & Coombes, 1995
Periclimenaeus solitus Bruce & Coombes, 1995
Periclimenaeus spinosus Holthuis, 1951
Periclimenaeus spongicola Holthuis, 1952
Periclimenaeus storchi Bruce, 1989
Periclimenaeus stylirostris Bruce, 1969
Periclimenaeus tchesunovi Ďuriš, 1990
Periclimenaeus tridentatus (Miers, 1884)
Periclimenaeus trispinosus Bruce, 1969
Periclimenaeus tuamotae Bruce, 1969
Periclimenaeus uropodialis Barnard, 1958
Periclimenaeus usitatus Bruce, 1969
Periclimenaeus wilsoni (Hay, 1917)
Periclimenaeus wolffi Bruce, 1993
Periclimenaeus zanzibaricus Bruce, 1969
Periclimenaeus zarenkovi Ďuriš, 1990

References

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"Periclimenaeus Borradaile, 1915". ITIS. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
L.A. Borradaile (1915). "Notes on Carides". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 8 (15): 205–231. doi:10.1080/00222931508693629.
A.J. Bruce (2005). "A re-description of Periclimenaeus robustus Borradaile, the type species of the genus Periclimenaeus Borradaile, 1915 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae)". Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 46: 389–398.
A.J. Bruce (2005). "New species of Periclimenaeus Borradaile (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae) from Ashmore Reef, North Western Australia, with remarks on P. pachydentatus Bruce, 1969" (PDF). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 22 (4): 325–342. doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.22(4).2005.325-342.
A.J. Bruce (2013). "Identification aid for the Indo-West Pacific species of. Periclimenaeus Borradaile, 1915 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Pontoniinae) using ambulatory dactyli" (PDF). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature. 56 (2): 647–664.
S. De Grave; C. Fransen (2016). "Periclmenaeus Borradaile, 1915". World Registry of Marine Species. Retrieved 4 January 2017.