Periclimenes pilipes, New Species, a Crinoid Associate from Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae)

1 November 1983

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Crustacean Biology

Vol. 3 (4) , 644-654
https://doi.org/10.2307/1547961

Abstract

P. pilipes sp. nov. is described and illustrated. Shrimps of this species were associated with the crinoid Comanthina schlegeli at Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, at 3-22 m depth. Aspects of the ecology of P. pilipes and its mimickry of host coloration are discussed. The species is most closely related to P. novaecaledonia Bruce, also a crinoid associate, from which it may be distinguished by its characteristic ambulatory pereiopods.

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