Periclimenaeus cloacola Fransen 2023, spec. nov.

• Main Author: Fransen, Charles H. J. M.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Palaemonidae; Periclimenaeus; Periclimenaeus cloacola; sami
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10390030; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B787A1FFCB024DFF5FFC23FC45FD60

Periclimenaeus cloacola spec. nov. (Figs. 21–29, video 8) Material examined. Curaçao: RMNH. CRUS.D.58145: 1 ovigerous female, pocl. 1.8 mm, R =2/0, damaged, all pereiopods missing; Piscaderabaai, 05.i.1964, 1.5–2 m depth, collected by P. Wagenaar Hummelinck (fcn. 1457). RMNH.CRUS.D.58146: 1 female, R =2/0, pocl. 1.6 mm; stn COA. 14, Playa Boka Sami, 12°08′51.40″N 68°59′55.50″W, 05.xi.2013, depth 5 m, scuba diving, in compound ascidian under stone, Diplosoma aff. listerianum (H. Milne Edwards, 1841) (photo COA.14 108–111), collected by B. T. Reijnen (photo COA.14 116–124). Bonaire : RMNH. CRUS.D.57868: 1 specimen, probably a male (first and second pleopods missing), pocl. 1.5 mm, R =2/0; 1 ovigerous female, pocl. 2.1 mm, R = 2/0; stn BON.05, Corporal Meiss, 12°07.888′N 068°16.996′W, 24.x.2019, depth 2 m, in greyish compound ascidian under stone, Diplosoma sp., collected by C.H.J.M. Fransen (fcn. BON.05- 1) (photo). RMNH. CRUS.D.58147: 1 ovigerous female, pocl. 2.0 mm, R = 1/0; stn BON.06, Oil Slick Leap, 12°12.029′N 068°18.512′W, 25.x.2019, depth 8 m, in greyish compound ascidian under stone, D. aff. listerianum , collected by C.H.J.M. Fransen (fcn. BON.06-1) (video 8). RMNH. CRUS.D.57883: 1 ovigerous female, pocl. 2.9 mm, R =2/0; stn BON.21, Something Special (Pali Grande), 12°09.696′N 068°17.016′W, 31.x.2019, depth 1 m, scuba diving, in greyish compound ascidian under stone, D. aff. listerianum , collected by C.H.J.M. Fransen (fcn. BON.21-1) (video 8). Description . Small shrimp with subcylindrical body (Fig. 21A). Rostrum short, dorsal carina well marked, directed downwards with 1–2 dorsal teeth placed distinctly in advance of posterior margin of orbit, with short setae interspersed proximally; apex of rostrum slender and curved upwards, reaching distal margin of basal segment of antennular peduncle; ventral margin convex, unarmed, devoid of setae; lateral carina obsolete (Fig. 21A–E). Carapace smooth, glabrous, without epigastric, supraorbital or hepatic spine, antennal tooth strong, marginal, at level of ...