Reappraisal of species attributed to Halicarcinus White, 1846 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) with diagnosis of four new genera and one new species from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Author
Poore, Gary C. B.
Author
Guinot, Danièle
Author
Komai, Tomoyuki
Author
Naruse, Tohru
text
Zootaxa
2016
4093
4
480
514
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4093.4.2
70a997e1-3680-457f-86ce-c288168b0cf0
1175-5326
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Micas afecundus
(Lucas, 1980)
Halicarcinus afecundus
Lucas, 1980: 185
–186, figs 3G,
6M.
—
Ng
et al
. 2008: 108.
Micas afecundus
.—
Ng & Richer de Forges 1996: 265.
Distribution
. Central Queensland,
Australia
.
Remarks
.
Halicarcinus afecundus
, from Lindeman I., Queensland,
Australia
, was assigned to
Micas
by Ng & Richer de Forges (1996) on account of the short ‘trilobed’ rostrum, longitudinal groove on the cardiac region, elongate ambulatory dactyli and pleomeres 2–5 fused. They did not remark on the two subterminal dactylar teeth on pereopods 2–5 which also uniquely characterise this genus. Ng
et al
. (2008) catalogued it as a species of
Halicarcinus
without explanation.