Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Caridea - Palaemonidae - Palaemonella

Palaemonella rotumana (Borradaile, 1898)



Distribution : Li & Bruce (2006) - Type locality: Rotuma Island, Fiji. Widely distributed from the northern Red Sea to Mozambique, including Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland) and east to Fiji and Hawaii, north to Japan, south to New Caledonia, also found in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Plus French Polynesia.

Selected Reference(s)
Palaemonella rotumana. - Naim, O., 1980a: annex 1, tab. 3. [ident. L.B. Holthuis] - French Polynesia

Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Society (Moorea, Tahiti) - Marine; Shoreline to 10 m; Coral facultative associate; Algae associate (gen. Giffordia).

Regional Records: Palaemonella rotumana - Bruce, 1970: 274 (Key); 1976b: table 8 ("Society & Marquesas"). - Naim, 1980a, annex 1, tab. 3 (Moorea; in filamentous sea-weed Giffordia mitchellae). - Chace & Bruce, 1993: 87, 89 (Syn. & key). - Fransen, 1994: 117 (Syn.; "Free-living and occuring among corals"). - Poupin, 1998: 15 (Checklist).


References : compilation of references cited in Poupin (1996, 1998, 2003) and Poupin et al. (2009) - PDF 412 Ko



Since November 2012, this database is updated in CRUSTA database - http://crustiesfroverseas.free.fr/