Periclimenes consobrinus (De Man 1902)

Periclimenes consobrinus (De Man, 1902)

Harpilius consobrinus De Man, 1902:836, pl. 26: fig. 54 [type locality: Temate, Indonesia].

Periclimenes consobrinus.—Bruce, 1972f:411, fig. 1B [left drawing]; 1975f:27, fig. 16 [color].—Holthuis, 1981:796, fig. 3i–1.

DIAGNOSIS.—Integument smooth, not pitted, on lateral areas of carapace and abdomen; rostrum barely overreaching antennal scale, palaemonoid, nearly horizontal, slightly sinuous, rostral formula 1 + 6–7/1–2, posteriormost tooth not isolated from remainder of dorsal rostral series, situated in line with or anterior 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 bluntly acute, not ovate; abdomen without compressed dorsal prominence on 3rd somite; telson with 2 pairs of distolateral spines anterior to posterior margin, anterior pair arising at or slightly posterior to mid-length, eye with cornea hemispherical, not produced distally; antennular peduncle with 1 distolateral spine on basal segment; antennal scale about 3 times as long as wide, lateral margin somewhat sinuous, distolateral tooth distinctly overreaching distal margin of blade; 4th thoracic sternite with slender median process; 1st pereopod overreaching antennal scale by nearly length of chela, fingers not pectinate on opposable margins; 2nd pereopod with fingers fully as long as palm, carpus less than as long as palm, about 1 times as long as distal width, without distal spines, merus with distal tooth on flexor margin; 3rd pereopod with dactyl not subdistally truncate, without denticulate lobe on flexor margin, simple, not biunguiculate, flexor margin sinuous, deeply concave in distal , propodus without spinules on flexor margin, not segmented; maximum postorbital carapace length 4.6 mm.

RANGE.—Western Indian Ocean, Thailand, Indonesia, and Great Barrier Reef of Australia; associated with scleractinian corals of genus Pocillopora.