Relevant Synonyms Periclimenes calami (erroneous spelling by Steinitz, 1967) Misidentification -  drawing : Tuvia Kurz

SHORT DESCRIPTION Carapace smooth, glabrous. Rostrum well developed, almost reaching tip of antennal scale, laterally compressed, upcurved, bearing dorsally 8-9 teeth, proximal tooth posterior to orbit, second tooth over orbit; lower margin bearing 4-5 teeth. Supra-orbital spines absent, antennal and hepatic spines present. Abdominal segments smooth, pleura of fifth segment produced, posteriorly acute. Telson bearing two pairs of small dorsal spines, posterior margin with three pairs of spines. Finger-like process on fourth thoracic sternite. Mandible lacking palp. First walking leg reaching tip of antennal scale, lacking spines; second walking legs subequal, slender, long, extending beyond antennal scale, lacking spines, interior margins of both fingers bearing shallow oval pit ringed by denticles proximally, distally. Walking legs 3-5 with simple dactyl. color : unrecorded. common size : TL 1.7 cm, CL 0.5 cm. DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS Finger-like median process on fourth thoracic sternite; walking legs 3-5 with simple dactyl. BIOLOGY / ECOLOGY Halophila. Ovigerous females August-October. habitat : free-living in mangrove channels, Halophila beds and estuaries, 2-36 m.

1st MEDITERRANEAN RECORD Egypt, 1927 [1924]. DISTRIBUTION Worldwide : Indo-Pacific. Mediterranean : a single record from Egypt (Balss, 1927 [1924]). ESTABLISHMENT SUCCESS Known from single record. speculated reasons for success : - MODE OF INTRODUCTION Via the Suez Canal (Fox, 1926). IMPORTANCE TO HUMANS None.

KEY REFERENCES Balss H., 1927. Bericht über die Crustacea Decapoda (Natantia und Anomura). Zoological Results of the Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Canal 1924, XIV. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 22: 221-227. Bruce A.J., 1987. Re-descriptions of two little-known Indo-West Pacific palaemonid shrimps, Periclimenes calmani Tattersal and P. delagoae Barnard. Journal of Natural History, 21: 1415-1432. Grippa G.B. and C. d'Udekem d'Acoz, 1996. The genus Periclimenes Costa, 1844 in the Mediterranean Sea and the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean: review of the species and description of Periclimenes aegylios subsp. nov. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea, Pontoniinae). Atti Societa italiana Scienze naturali e Museo civico Storia naturale Milano, 135 [1994]: 401-412.   Müller H.G., 1993. Catalogue of the Indo-Pacific Pontoniine Shrimps. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Wetzlar Germany. 159 pp. FEEDBACK / COMMENTS TO AUTHORS

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