Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Hamodactylus boschmai Holthuis, 1952
Hamodactylus boschmai Holthuis, 1952c:18, 209, figs. 102–104 [type locality:Ternate, off Halmahera (2–4 m) and Djedan, Kapulauan Aru (13 m), Indonesia].—Bruce, 1982e:272, figs. 25, 26.
DIAGNOSIS.—Carapace with supraorbital spine; antennular peduncle with single distolateral spine on basal segment; 1st pereopod with fingers distinctly more than as long as palm, without subdistal tooth on opposable margin of each; 2nd pereopod with fixed finger about as long as movable one.
RANGE.—Kenya, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Indonesia, and New Caledonia; associated with gorgonians.
- bibliographic citation
- Chace, Fenner Albert, Jr. and Bruce, A. J. 1993. "The caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition 1907-1910, Part 6: Superfamily Palaemonoidea." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-152. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.543
