Deep-water Galatheidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from southern and eastern Australia
Author
Ahyong, Shane T.
Author
Poore, Gary C. B.
text
Zootaxa
2004
2004-03-23
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.472.1.1
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.472.1.1
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Agononida eminens
(
Baba, 1988
)
Munida eminens
Baba, 1988: 95–98
, fig. 35 [
type
locality: off southeastern Luzon,
Philippines
]; 1994: 11. —
Macpherson, 1994: 466
, fig. 72; 1995: 392.
Agononida eminens
. —
Macpherson, 1997: 600
;
1999: 412–413
. —
Davie, 2002: 59
.
Material examined.
QUEENSLAND
:
AM
P66655,
1 male
(
22.2 mm
),
3 females
(14.9– 19.0 mm),
Lord Howe Rise
,
Tasman
Sea
,
28°05.76’S
,
163°06.04’E
,
1051 m
, coarse ooze with pumice, beam trawl, FR058925,
5 May 1989
.
NEW SOUTH WALES
:
AM
P19381,
1 female
(
26.7 mm
), off
Botany Bay
,
34°00’S
,
151°43’E
,
720 m
, K720701,
6
Nov
1072
;
AM
P26773,
1 female
(
21.5 mm
), SE of
Broken Bay
,
33°40’S
,
151°56’E
,
714–732 m
, trawl, K772306,
6 Dec 1977
.
Remarks.
As reported for the
paratype
(
Baba 1988
) for material from north Queensland (
Baba 1994
),
New Caledonia
(
Macpherson 1994
),
Wallis and Futuna
Islands (
Macpherson 1996
), the present specimens differ from the account of the
holotype
(
Baba 1988
) in lacking the posterior cardiac spine. As also reported for north Queensland and New Caledonian material, the female specimens of the present series bear two instead of three branchiocardiac spines. The male bears two branchiocardiac spines on one side and three on the other, and four instead of two spines on the posteromedian margin of the carapace.
Distribution.
The
Philippines
,
Indonesia
, Queensland, and
New Caledonia
, Lifou,
Wallis and Futuna
Islands at
564–1000 m
(
Macpherson 1999
). The present records extend the geographic and bathymetric ranges to New South Wales and
1051 m
respectively.