The vampire crabs of Java, with descriptions of five new species from Mount Halimun Salak National Park, West Java, Indonesia (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae: Geosesarma)
Author
Ng, Peter K. L.
Author
Wowor, Daisy
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2019
2019-04-03
67
217
246
journal article
10.26107/RBZ-2019-0018
2345-7600
4575815
0656D7C5-0498-40B6-9348-284800EE671D
Geosesarma sukabumi
,
new species
(
Figs. 8–10
)
Material examined.
West Java Province
,
Sukabumi Regency
:
holotype
: male (11.5 ×
10.3 mm
) (
MZB
Cru 4555),
Cikakak
District
, Ds. Cirendang,
Kp. Paniisan
, cliff nearby
S. Cirendang
,
06°53′57.0″S
106°33′11.1″E
,
587 m
asl
, coll.
D. Wowor
et al.,
18 May 2016
.
Paratypes
:
13 males
(6.3 ×
5.5 mm
– 10.5 ×
9. 1 mm
),
8 females
(5.2 ×
4.7 mm
– 10.4 ×
9.9 mm
),
2 juveniles
(
MZB
Cru 4647),
1 male
(10.3 × 9.0 mm),
1 female
(9.2 × 8.0 mm) (
ZRC 2018.0287
ex-MZB Cru 4647), same data as holotype
.
Diagnosis of male.
Carapace subquadrate, slightly wider than long, lateral margins sinuous, gently divergent (
Fig. 8A, B
); dorsal surface with clear regions, anterior regions with numerous small rounded granules (
Fig. 8B, C
); front deflexed, frontal lobes broad with convex margins, separated by broad, shallow median concavity; postfrontal cristae sharp (
Fig. 8B, C
); external orbital tooth triangular, directed obliquely outwards, tip extending slightly beyond anterior part of lateral carapace margin, first epibranchial tooth truncate, well defined, separated from margin by small cleft (
Fig. 8B
). Ischium of third maxilliped ovate; exopod relatively slender, with long flagellum that extends just beyond merus width (
Fig. 10A
). Outer surface of palm of adult male chelae with low granules and rugae; inner surface granulated but without transverse comb-like ridge; dorsal margin of dactylus with 3 or 4 distinct large tubercles on proximal third, each with chitinous tip (
Fig. 8
F–H). Ambulatory legs with relatively broad meri, with sharp subdistal spine on dorsal margin, surfaces rugose; ventral margins of propodus and dactylus of adult first ambulatory leg with dense comb-like setae. Male pleon triangular; telson triangular with rounded tip, as long as broad; somite 6 wide, with convex lateral margins (
Fig. 8D, E
). G1 relatively stout, subdistal part of outer margin before chitinous distal part gently curved with inner dorsal section strongly developed; chitinous distal part bent about 80º along longitudinal axis, tapering, relatively slender in lateral view, spatuliform in mesial view; tip rounded when viewed dorsally (
Fig. 10
B–E).
Fig. 10.
Geosesarma sukabumi
,
new species
, holotype male (11.5 × 10.3 mm) (MZB Cru 4555). A, left third maxilliped; B, left G1 (dorsal view); C, left G1 (ventral view); D, left G1 (ventro-mesial view); E, left G1(dorso-mesial view); F, left G2. All structures denuded. Scales: A = 1.0 mm; B–F = 0.5 mm.
Females
. The adult female carapace is more trapezoidal in form (
Fig. 9A
). The vulvae are on the anterior half of sternite 6, slightly raised, directed obliquely inwards towards the median line of the sternum, the margin is indented medially and without a sternal opercular cover (
Fig. 9C
).
Etymology
. The species is named after the region where it was found, Sukabumi Regency. The name is used as a noun in apposition.
Remarks
. See General Discussion for comparisons with allied Javan species.
Notes on habitat.
The species was found under wet leaf litter, with water seeping from the base of a cliff, not far from a stream at the edge of a small hamlet. The ground is a mixture of gravel and coarse sand. The habitat is about
12.6 m
above the stream, shadowed by trees grow on the cliff at around
580 m
asl (
Fig. 25C
).
Life colouration.
The carapace and chelae are dark brown with black eyes.
Distribution
. Sukabumi Regency in
West Java Province
, in Gunung Koneng Resort of Mount Halimun Salak National Park.