Periclimenes venustus

Periclimenes venustus Bruce, 1990

Periclimenes venustus Bruce, 1989b: 178; 1990f:230. figs. 1–6. 7a. 8a [type locality: Port Essington, Cobourg Peninsula, northern Australia; associated with sea anemones].

DIAGNOSIS.—Integument smooth, not pitted, on lateral areas of carapace and abdomen; rostrum not overreaching antennal scale, shallow, ventrally concave, rostral formula 1 + 5–7/0–2, posteriormost tooth somewhat isolated from remainder of dorsal rostral series, situated slightly 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 strongly acutely produced, subovate; abdomen with low, compressed dorsal prominence on 3rd somite, slightly produced, 6th somite fully twice as long as 5th; telson with 2 pairs of dorsolateral spines anterior to posterior margin, both pairs arising on posterior of length; eye with cornea hemispherical, not produced distally; antennular peduncle with 1 small distolateral spine on basal segment; antennal scale about 2 times as long as wide, lateral margin straight, 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 chela, fingers not pectinate on opposable margins; 2nd pereopod with fingers subequal to palm in length, carpus subequal to or shorter than palm, about 3–4 times as long as distal width, without distal spines, merus without tooth on flexor margin; 3rd pereopod with dactyl not subdistally truncate, without denticulate lobe on flexor margin, biunguiculate, flexor margin concave, propodus with few short spines on distal of flexor margin, not segmented; 5th pereopod reaching to about distal end of antennal scale; uropod overreaching extended telson; maximum postorbital carapace length more than 5 mm.

RANGE.—Ryukyu Islands, Philippines, and northern and western Australia; to a depth of about 5 m.

MATERIAL.—PHILIPPINES. Off Jolo Island, Sulu Archipelago; sta 5142; 6°06′10″N, 121°02′40″E; 38 m; coral sand and shells; 15 Feb 1908 (1033–1044); 12′ Agassiz Beam trawl, mud bag: 1 ovig female [3.9].

RANGE.—See “Range” of genus.