Discovery of the shrimp Pycnocaris chagoae Bruce, 1972 (Decapoda: Caridea: Gnathophyllidae) in the Lakshadweep Archipelago, India

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2998 (1) ◽  
pp. 66 ◽  
Author(s):  
SANJEEVI PRAKASH ◽  
IDREES BABU ◽  
MOHAN GOPI ◽  
THIPPARAMALAI THANGAPPANPILLAI AJITH KUMAR ◽  
THANGAVEL BALASUBRAMANIAN
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Caridean Shrimp ◽  
Central Indian Ocean ◽  
Chagos Archipelago ◽  
Lakshadweep Archipelago

The caridean shrimp family Gnathophyllidae currently comprises five genera: Gnathophyllum Latreille, 1819; Gnathophylloides Schmitt, 1933; Pycnocaris Bruce, 1972; Levicaris Bruce, 1973a and Gnathophylleptum d’Udekem d’Acoz, 2001, the last three genera being monotypic (De Grave et al., 2009). The original description of Pycnocaris chagoae Bruce, 1972 was based on a pair of specimens collected in the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean (Bruce, 1972). Further information on the morphology and colour pattern of P. chagoae as well as its association with the holothurian hosts Holothuria cinerascenes Brandt and Labidodemas rugosum Ludwig was provided by Bruce (1973, 1983). Since the last record by Bruce (1983), no further specimens of P. chagoae have been reported.

scholarly journals An Annotated Checklist of the Fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean

Copeia ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 1990 (1) ◽  
pp. 266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kent E. Carpenter ◽  
Richard Winterbottom ◽  
Alan R. Emery ◽  
Erling Holm
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Central Indian Ocean ◽  
Annotated Checklist ◽  
Chagos Archipelago

Two new gobiid fish species (in Priolepis and Trimma) from the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean

1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 748-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Winterbottom
Keyword(s):  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Horizontal Line ◽  
Dorsal Margin ◽  
Meristic Characters ◽  
Gobiid Fish ◽  
Gill Opening ◽  
Central Indian Ocean ◽  
Fin Ray ◽  
Vertical Bars ◽  
Chagos Archipelago

Priolepis compita n. sp. is described from specimens from the Chagos Archipelago, but other material indicates an Indo-west Pacific distribution from South Africa to Fiji. Trimma emeryi n. sp. was described and illustrated in colour by Winterbottom in 1984 under the name T. mendelssohni, with a note added in proof stating that it was not that species but represented an undescribed form. Priolepis and Trimma are closely related, differing mainly in the anteroventral extent of the gill opening and in colour pattern. The new Priolepis differs from its congeners in having the vertical bars on the postocular portion of the head and the nape joined by a horizontal line, sometimes staggered, at the level of the dorsal margin of the pupil. Its distribution includes the Kwazulu coast of southern Africa to at least Fiji in the western Pacific. The new Trimma differs from other species in the genus in colour pattern, a number of meristic characters, and in details of fin-ray branching patterns. The new species is recorded definitely only from Chagos and the Gulf of Tadjoura in the Gulf of Aden. Specimens from Fiji apparently represent a closely related species.

A review of the gobiid fish genus Trimma from the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean, with the description of seven new species

1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Winterbottom
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Gobiid Fish ◽  
Central Indian Ocean ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Chagos Archipelago ◽  
The Western Pacific

The genus Trimma contains 17 nominal and 13 valid species. Five of these are here reported from the Chagos Archipelago: T. eviotops, T. macrophthalma, T. mendelssohni. T. nauclei, and T. taylori. An additional 7 species arc described as new and another is described but not named, for a total of 13 species known from these islands. The biogeographic affinities of Chagos species of Trimma appear to lie with the western Indian Ocean rather than the western Pacific, but the evidence is weak because of the lack of knowledge of the Pacific Trimma fauna.

scholarly journals Diversity and Distribution of Symbiodinium Associated with Seven Common Coral Species in the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean

PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. e35836 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung-Yin Yang ◽  
Shashank Keshavmurthy ◽  
David Obura ◽  
Charles R. C. Sheppard ◽  
Shakil Visram ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Coral Species ◽  
Central Indian Ocean ◽  
Chagos Archipelago

Opisthobranch molluscs from the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean

2002 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 831-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Yonow ◽  
R. Charles Anderson ◽  
Susan G. Buttress
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Central Indian Ocean ◽  
Opisthobranch Molluscs ◽  
Chagos Archipelago
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