New record of two species of munidid squat lobster (Decapoda: Anomura) from the North-West Pacific off Japan
Author
Komai, Tomoyuki
Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, 955 - 2 Aoba-cho, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260 - 8682, Japan.
Author
Tsuchida, Shinji
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2 - 15, Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka 237 - 0061, Kanagawa, Japan.
Author
Fujiwara, Yoshihiro
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2 - 15, Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka 237 - 0061, Kanagawa, Japan.
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-11-09
5369
2
239
254
https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5369.2.4/52240
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5369.2.4
1175-5326
10152389
66DAAD3F-C7D4-4216-AC5F-8D0A143F7762
Genus
Gonionida
Macpherson & Baba
in
Machordom, Ahyong, Andreakis, Baba, Buckley, Garcia-Jimenez, McCallum, Rodriguez-Flores & Macpherson, 2022
Remarks.
Gonionida
is heretofore represented by 62 species (
Machordom
et al
. 2022
; WoRMS 2023a), all of which occur in the Indo-West Pacific. From Japanese waters, the following five species of the genus have been recorded (
Baba
et al
. 2008
;
Komai 2012
,
2017
;
Komai & Higashiji 2016
):
G. andamanica
(
Alcock, 1894
)
,
G. kuboi
(
Yanagita, 1943
)
,
G. michaeli
(
Komai, 2017
)
,
G. pilorhyncha
(
Miyake & Baba, 1966
)
, and
G. pollioculus
(
Komai & Higashiji, 2016
)
. In this study, one new species,
G. kaimei
, is described based on a single specimen from Shoho Seamount, Nishi-Shichito Ridge.