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
(
Macrophthalmus
)
convexus
Stimpson, 1858
(
Figs. 3A, B
)
Macrophthalmus convexus
Stimpson, 1858
: 97
. —
Tesch 1915
: 175
.
Macrophthalmus
(
Macrophthalmus
)
convexus
—
Barnes 1967
: 211, pl. 1c, fig. 3; 1971: 9; 2010: 40, fig. 2c. —
Poupin 1997
: 163, figs. 1C, D, 3C–E, 4–6.
Material examined.
2 males
(5.81 x 9.81, 8.00 x
13.45 mm
),
1 female
(5.45 x
9.09 mm
) (
MZB
Cru 3268),
2 females
(5.82 x 9.45, 6.18 x
9.81 mm
) (RCLA-C.B.0255),
2 males
(6.18 x 10.91, 8.00 x
12.91 mm
), 1 ovig. (9.45 x
14.91 mm
) (
ZRC
2011.0999), Ekas, Lombok,
22.07.2009
;
3 males
(10.24 x 21.50; 7.60 x 14.50; 8.90 x 16.71) mm (RCLA-C.B.0256), Kayangan, Lombok,
10.10.2010
.
Remarks.
Komai
et al.
(1995)
and
Poupin (1997)
discussed in detail the similarity of this species with
M. parvimanus
. The specimens in this collection agree well with the Indo-Malaysia form (
Poupin 1997
) i.e. the apical chitinous process of the G1 tapers to a small, acute distal tooth. The species is characterized by the broad carapace (1.9 as broad as long) with oblique upper orbital margin, elongated male chelipeds with large differentiated tooth on the cutting margin of the fingers, and the granular dorsal and ventral margins of the palm, and with a longitudinal granular ridge along the outer surface above the ventral margin of the palm chelipeds.
Habitat.
Muddy substrate of lower intertidal zone of protected bays.
Geographical distribution.
Thailand
,
Philippines
, eastern
Australia
and
Solomon Islands
, northward to
Taiwan
, and
Hong Kong
(
Komai
et al
. 1995
). In
Indonesia
it was recorded from
Maluku
and Lesser Sunda Is (
Poupin 1997
) and
Pulau
Kaledupa, Sulawesi (Barnes 2010), and now Lombok.