Periclimenes pauper Holthuis, 1951

Anker, Sammy De Grave and Arthur, 2017, An annotated checklist of marine caridean and stenopodidean shrimps (Malacostraca: Decapoda) of the Caribbean coast of Panama, Nauplius (e 2017015) 25, pp. 1-40 : 29-30

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1590/2358-2936e2017015
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scientific name	Periclimenes pauper Holthuis, 1951
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Periclimenes pauper Holthuis, 1951 View in CoL

Material examined. Bocas del Toro. 1 spec., Swan

Cay, 09°27.200’N 082°17.900’W, on black coral

Antipathes sp. , 3 m, leg. S. De Grave, 04.08.2005, OUMNH. ZC.2005-10-051.

Remarks. Our single specimen from Swan Cay has no antennal tooth and thus corresponds to the diagnosis of P. pauper in Holthuis (1951), although it has a strong morphological similarity to the members of the Periclimenes iridescens (Lebour, 1949) species complex. It seems probable that this taxon was based on aberrant specimens of the P.iridescens complex and will need to be taxonomically reassessed. It was previously recorded from Venezuela and Curaçao ( Criales, 1980), and now for the first time from Panama.