Periclimenes kempi Bruce 1969

Periclimenes kempi Bruce, 1969

Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) diversipes Kemp, 1922:179, figs. 36–39 [part].

Periclimenes kempi Bruce, 1969b:260 [type locality: Hurghada, Red Sea coast of Egypt; 27°14′N, 38°50′E; 1 meter, associated with alcyonarians]; 1979f:224; 1981g:80, fig. 2.

DIAGNOSIS.—Integument smooth, not pitted, on lateral areas of carapace and abdomen; rostrum not overreaching antennal scale, palaemonoid, nearly horizontal, 0+5–8/0–2, posteriormost tooth not isolated from remainder of dorsal rostral series, situated anterior to level of hepatic spine; carapace without supraorbital or postorbital spine, hepatic spine little longer than antennal spine, arising posteriad and slightly ventrad to latter, not extending beyond anterior margin of carapace, orbital angle acutely produced, not quite subovate; abdomen without distinct compressed dorsal prominence on 3rd somite; 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 with distolateral tooth not nearly reaching level of distal margin of blade; 4th thoracic sternite without slender median process; 1st pereopod overreaching antennal scale by length of fingers, latter pectinate on opposable margins; 2nd pereopod with fingers about as long as palm, carpus about as long as palm, about 3 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, simple, not biunguiculate, flexor margin convex at extreme proximal end of flexor margin, concave distally, propodus with 1 distal spinule on flexor margin, not segmented; uropod distinctly overreaching extended telson; maximum postorbital carapace length about 1 mm.

RANGE.—Red Sea, Zanzibar, Andaman Islands, Singapore, Australia, and Fiji Islands; associated with alcyonarians.