The Indo-Pacific scyllarine lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Scyllaridae)
Author
Holthuis, Lipke B.
National Museum of Natural History, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA, Leiden (The Netherlands).
text
Zoosystema
2002
24
3
499
683
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.4689240
1638-9387
4689240
Genus
Antipodarctus
n. gen.
TYPE
AND ONLY SPECIES. —
Scyllarus aoteanus
Powell, 1949
by present designation.
ETYMOLOGY. — A combination of the word antipodes (
anti
[Greek] = opposite;
pous
,
podos
[Greek] = foot) = those that live on the opposite side of the globe, and the generic name
Arctus
De Haan, 1849
, a junior synonym of
Scyllarus
Fabricius, 1775
.
DIAGNOSIS. — Carapace with cardiac, gastric, pregastric and rostral teeth; gastric lower than pregastric and two-topped; cardiac tooth also two-topped. Abdomen with arborescent pattern of narrow grooves; pleura ending in blunt tops. No median carina on the abdominal somites, but the median lobulated figure of somites II and III slightly elevated. Fourth segment of antenna with two oblique carinae a strong median one ending in the top of the segment and a shorter outer one ending in the lower of the teeth of the lateral margin. Thoracic sternum U-shaped incised anteriorly with two distinct and sharp submedian tubercles. Sternum itself with a pattern of short carinae and tubercles along the sides.
DISTRIBUTION. — The genus so far is only known from
New Zealand
waters.
REMARKS
It will be dealt with more extensively in a work in preparation by Dr John C. Yaldwyn.