Periclimenes batei (Borradaile 1917)

Periclimenes batei (Borradaile, 1917)

Palaemonella orientalis Bate, 1888:787, pl. 128: fig. 4 [not Palaemonella orientalis Dana, 1852].

Palaemonella batei Borradaile, 1917:357, 358 [type locality: off Sibago Island, Sulu Archipelago, Philippines; 6°47′N, 122°28′E].

Periclimenes (Periclimenes) batei.—Holthuis, 1959:195, fig. 1.

Periclimenes batei.—Bruce and Svoboda, 1984:98.

DIAGNOSIS.—Integument smooth, not pitted, on lateral areas of carapace and abdomen; rostrum not overreaching antennal scale, nearly horizontal, rostral formula 0 + 6/1, posteriormost tooth not isolated from remainder of dorsal rostral series; carapace without supraorbital or postorbital spine, hepatic spine no larger than antennal spine, not extending beyond anterior margin of carapace; abdomen without compressed dorsal prominence on 3rd somite, 6th somite about twice as long as 5th; eye with cornea hemispherical, not produced distally; antennular peduncle with 1 distolateral spine on basal segment; antennal scale about 3 times as long as wide, lateral margin faintly concave, distolateral tooth not overreaching distal margin of blade; 1st pereopod overreaching antennal scale, fingers not pectinate on opposable margins; 2nd pereopod with fingers about as long as palm, subequal to carpus in length, latter about 3 times as long as distal width, with 1 distal tooth, merus without distal tooth on flexor margin; 3rd pereopod with dactyl not subdistally truncate, without denticulate lobe on flexor margin, sharply biunguiculate, flexor margin straight proximally, concave distally; uropod probably overreaching extended telson; postorbital carapace length about 1 mm.

RANGE.—Known only from the type locality in the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines, in 47 m.

Periclimenes batei is a species of shrimp found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It was first named by L. A. Borradaile in 1888, in commemoration of Charles Spence Bate who wrote the section on shrimp in the reports of the Challenger expedition.