3 Shrimp species from Lembeh - Sulawesi

[Dave H 0]

and this is the last lot of head scratching for the week. Below are 3 shrimp species that I am hoping I can get some ID's confirmed.

 

This species looks similar to Periclimenes tenuipes that is illustrated in the Debelius guide:

 

The next two images I believe could be Periclimenes kororensis

 

 

This species looks very similar to Periclimenes holthusi but I'm not conivnced if this is the correct ID. It also looks similar to the species I posted in this link:

http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=18769

 

[Leslie 0]

I wonder about that first one. All the P. tenuipes pics I've seen show blue elbow bands & brown claws; this one has brown elbow bands & although the claws don't really show it looks as if they're blue. There are several of these long-armed free living ones. The second one, well, I've seen just one similiar one posted on a japanese website with the name Periclimenes ornatus but it (and this) aren't like any other P. ornatus. So ??? Last one matches P. venustus on www.edge-of-reef which I'm told is a reliable site. P. venustus, P. saravasti, P. tosaensis, P. holthuisi are part of a group of similar looking species that have colored saddles on the hump,

[Leslie 0]

Dave -- feeling insecure about my ids even with all the "looks like", "maybe" "sorta kinda" phrases, I asked Sammy DeGrave to check these out. His reply:

 

"The one you got down as Periclimenes tenuipes is not tenuipes proper, but there are (as usual) several more species in that long-arm complex, whilst the photo is not clear enough to exclude some Palaemonella nor Kemponia. I would guess P. close to tenuipes though, based on the bands on the arms, but probably undescribed.

 

P.ornatus that would be correct I think.

 

The one from the holthuisi group is not svarasati, nor any of the other recently described ones, seems highly likely to be a new species.

 

Specimens would be soooo useful." (He's a taxonomist; we always want specimens)