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Anchistus custos (Forskål, 1775)
Cancer custos Forskål, 1775: xxi, 94 [type locality; AI Luhayyah, Yemen].
Pontonia inflata H. Milne Edwards, 1840:633 [type locality: Sri Lanka and “Vanicoso” (= Vanikoro, Santa Cruz Islands)].
Anchistia aurantiaca Dana, 1852a:25 [type locality: Fiji Islands].
Harpilius inermis Miers, 1884:291, pl. 32: fig. B [type locality; Port Molle, Queensland, Australia; from coral reef in Pinna].
Pontonia pinnae Ortmann, 1894:16, pl. 1: fig. 3 [type locality: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; in Pinna; not Pontonia pinnae Lockington, 1894:163].
Anchistus custos.—Holthuis, 1952b:105.
DIAGNOSIS.—Rostrum apically rounded, unarmed; carapace without antennal spine; 3rd maxilliped with antepenultimate segment about twice as wide as penultimate segment; 1st pereopod with chela unusually curled to form open tube; 3rd pereopod with dactyl simple, not biunguiculate; maximum postorbital carapace length about 9 mm.
RANGE.—Red Sea and eastern Africa to Philippines, southward to South Australia, and eastward to the Caroline and Fiji islands; living in bivalve mollusks of the genus Pinna.
- 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
