Calappid and leucosiid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Kerala, India, with the description of a new species of Mursia Desmarest, 1823, from the Arabian Sea and redescription of M. bicristimana Alcock & Anderson, 1894
Author
Kumar, Biju A.
Author
Kumar, M. Sushil
Author
Galil, Bella S.
text
Zootaxa
2013
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4
529
551
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3746.4.2
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Arcania cornuta
(MacGilchrist, 1905)
(
Fig. 11
)
Ixoides cornutus
MacGilchrist, 1905: 255
.—Alcock & MacGilchrist 1905: pl. 73, fig. 2.—Devi
et al
. 1988b: 561, figs. 1, 2.— Kumar
et al
. 2007: 285.
Kerala material examined.
Neendakara, 08˚56'N 76˚32'E,
12 Jan. 2013
,
10 ♂
(CW
18.7–46.9 mm
), 6 ♀ (CW 33– 45.0 mm) (DABFUK).
Colour.
Carapace in the freshly collected specimen is salmon-pink, more intense medially, tips of lateral spines and papillate posterior spines white (
Fig. 11
).
Distribution.
Originally described from the Persian Gulf (MacGilchrist 1905),
A. cornuta
is a widely distributed species with records from
Mozambique
Channel,
Madagascar
,
Seychelles
,
Japan
,
China
,
Taiwan
,
Philippines
,
Vietnam
,
Papua New Guinea
,
Vanuatu
,
New Caledonia
, Solomon Is.,
Fiji
(Galil
2001a 2007
; Galil & Ng 2010). Indian records comprise material collected off Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh (Bay of Bengal) and off Kerala (Devi
et al
. 1988a, b).