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.