Periclimenes indicus (Kemp 1915)

Periclimenes indicus (Kemp, 1915)

Urocaris indica Kemp, 1915:275. fig. 26, pl. 13: fig. 9 [type locality: Chilka Lake, Orissa, India; fresh and brackish water].

Periclimenes (Periclimenes) indicus.—Kemp, 1922:144, fig. 13.—Holthuis, 1952c:39, fig. 8.

DIAGNOSIS.—Integument smooth, not pitted, on lateral areas of carapace and abdomen; rostrum not overreaching antennal scale, crested above orbit, horizontal, rostral formula 2 + 6–8/1–3, posteriormost tooth isolated from remainder of dorsal rostral series, situated posterior to level of hepatic spine; carapace without supraorbital or postorbital spine, hepatic spine not noticeably larger than antennal spine, arising posteroventral to latter, not extending beyond anterior margin of carapace, orbital angle ovate; abdomen without compressed dorsal prominence on 3rd somite, 6th somite about twice as long as 5th; telson with 2 pairs of dorsolateral spines anterior to posterior margin, anterior pair arising at about mid-length; eye with cornea hemispherical, not produced distally; antennular peduncle with 1 distolateral spine on basal segment; antennal scale 3–3 times as long as wide, lateral margin straight, distolateral tooth not reaching level of distal margin of blade; 4th thoracic sternite without slender median process; 1st pereopod not overreaching antennal scale; 2nd pereopod with fingers fully as long as palm, carpus slightly more or less than twice as long as palm, fully 5 times as long as distal width, without distal spines, merus without distal tooth on flexor margin; 3rd pereopod with dactyl not subdistally truncate, without denticulate lobe on flexor margin, biunguiculate, flexor margin concave, propodus with spinules on flexor margin, not segmented; 5th pereopod overreaching antennal scale; uropod overreaching extended telson; maximum postorbital carapace length about 3 mm.

RANGE.—India, Nicobar Islands, Malaya, Singapore, Indonesia, and Queensland, Australia; to a depth of 55 meters.