Periclimenes jugalis Holthuis 1952

Periclimenes jugalis Holthuis, 1952

Periclimenes (Harpilius) jugalis Holthuis, 1952c:11, 67, fig. 26 [type locality: Djedan, Kepulauan Aru, Indonesia; 13 meters].

DIAGNOSIS.—Integument smooth, not pitted, on lateral areas of carapace and abdomen; rostrum not overreaching antennal scale, slender, directed slightly anteroventral, rostral formula 1 + , posteriormost tooth not isolated from remainder of 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 not ovate; abdomen with 6th somite nearly twice as long as 5th; telson with 2 pairs of dorsolateral spines, both pairs arising in posterior of length; eye with cornea hemispherical, not produced distally; antennular peduncle with 1 distolateral spine on basal segment; antennal scale with lateral margin nearly straight, distolateral tooth not reaching level of distal margin of blade; 1st pereopod overreaching antennal scale by length of fingers, latter not pectinate on opposable margins; 2nd pereopod with fingers about as long as palm, carpus fully as long as palm, about 3 as long as distal width, without distal spines, merus without distal tooth on flexor margin; 3rd pereopod with dactyl not subdistally truncate, without denticulate lobe on flexor margin, simple, not biunguiculate, flexor margin regularly concave, propodus with spinules on flexor margin, not segmented; uropod overreaching extended telson; postorbital carapace length about 4 mm.

RANGE.—Zanzibar and Indonesia.