The Indonesian species of Macrophthalmus Desmarest, 1823, with the description of a new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae)
Author
Rahayu, Dwi Listyo
Author
Nugroho, Dharma Arif
text
Zootaxa
2012
3158
20
36
journal article
45671
10.5281/zenodo.211286
007f5089-4a23-4153-8699-671b54886883
1175-5326
211286
Macrophthalmus
(
Mareotis
)
crinitus
Rathbun, 1913
(
Figs. 1
C, D)
Macrophthalmus crinitus
Rathbun, 1913
: 619
, pl. 75, fig. 3.
Macrophthalmus
(
Mareotis
)
crinitus
—
Barnes 1971
: 22
, fig. 5; 2010: 41, fig. 3C. Not
M. crinitus
Barnes, 1967
(=
M. darwinensis
Barnes, 1971
).
Material examined.
1 male
, (11.97 x
16.25 mm
) (RCLA-C.B.0261), Sekotong, Lombok,
30.07.2005
, 1 ovig. (11.45 x
16.36 mm
) (
MZB
Cru 3272), Sekotong, Lombok,
16.05.2007
.
Remarks.
The specimen in this study agrees well with the description of the species given by
Barnes (1971)
. Barnes (2010) placed this species in
M. crinitus
group together with
M. pacificus
and
M. darwinensis
Barnes, 1971
.
Macrophthalmus crinitus
resembles
M. darwinensis
in having scattered granules on the branchial and hepatic regions of the carapace, which are obscured by short stiff setae, especially on the branchial region, one large and one small anterolateral teeth, and the presence of a mat of setae on the pereopod meri, carpi and propodi. Differences can be seen on the male chelipeds. In
M. crinitus
the fixed finger of the male chelipeds has a longitudinal ridge on the outer surface, and the cutting margin lacks a differentiated tooth, while in M.
darwinensis
the outer face of the fixed finger of the male chelipeds is without a longitudinal ridge and the cutting margin has long, crenulated teeth.
Macrophthalmus pacificus
differs from these two species in having a smooth dorsal surface of the carapace and the pereopod meri, carpi and propodi with only sparse setae.
Habitat.
Sandy mud substrate of seaward fringe of mangrove forest.
Geographical distribution.
Burma
, Mergui Archipelago, eastern
Indonesia
(
Ambon
,
Ternate
and
Pulau
Kaledupa, Sulawesi;
Barnes 1971
, 2010), and now Lombok.