Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands
Author
Osawa, Masayuki
text
Zootaxa
2007
1548
1
49
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.178040
2cbe1502-c057-4a0c-8f15-c1815dcd4d20
1175-5326
178040
Lissoporcellana nakasonei
(
Miyake, 1978
)
Porcellana maculata
Miyake, 1957
: 75
, figs. 1–3 (
type
locality: Tanabe Bay, Wakayama Prefecture,
Japan
). [Not
Porcellana maculata
H.
Milne Edwards, 1837
(=
Neopetrolisthes maculatus
)].
Porcellana nakasonei
Miyake, 1978
: 28
(list).
Lissoporcellana maculata
.—
Haig, 1978
: 712
.
Lissoporcellana nakasonei
.—
Miyake, 1982
: 204
(list), 240 (key).—
Osawa, 1998b
: 876
, figs. 1–3.
Material examined.
New Caledonia
.
Montrouzier, Touho Channel, lagoon,
35 m
, commensal with
Alcyonacea
,
17 Sep. 1993
,
1 male
CL
3.5 mm
.
Remarks
. This species was redescribed in detail by
Osawa (1998b)
.
Lissoporcellana nakasonei
closely resembles
L. miyakei
Haig, 1981
, but differs in having subparallel instead of strongly convex branchial margins of the carapace.
Distribution.
This species was recorded only from southern
Japan
(Izu Islands; Kii Pesinsula, Amakura in Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands) at depths of about
20 m
on rocky substrates and in association with alcyonacean octocoral,
Dendronephthya nipponica
Utinomi
and
Dendronephthya
sp. (
Osawa 1998b
;
Kato & Okuno 2001
;
Osawa & Fujita 2005
). This is the first record of
L. nakasonei
from outside of
Japan
and from
New Caledonia
at the depth of
35 m
.