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
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1175-5326
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Micas filholi
(De Man, 1888)
n. comb.
(
Fig. 4
)
Elamene
[sic]
filholi
De Man, 1888: 386
–388, pl. 17 fig 3.
—
Lucas 1980: 178.
Neorhynchoplax
filholi—
Sakai 1938: 200.
Halicarcinus
filholi—
Ng & Chuang 1996: 48–50, fig. 19.
Material examined
.
Holotype
.
Indonesia
. Sumatra, E Lampong,
Insel
Nordwachter (=
Pulau
Sebiri), SMF ZMG 805 (male, 4.0 mm).
Distribution
.
Indonesia
,
Pulau
Sebiri (between N of Java and E of Sumatra).
Remarks
. Lucas (1980) noted that
Elamena filholi
may belong to
Halicarcinus
but did not include it in his key. Ng & Chuang (1996) provisionally transferred it to
Halicarcinus
. A re-examination of the
holotype
by TN revealed that it is morphologically similar to
Micas minutus
(A. Milne-Edwards, 1873)
in having a very thin hymenosomian rim that separates the rostrum from the carapace, very long ambulatory dactyli, and a slender and twice-twisted gonopod 1 (
Fig. 4
e). However,
Elamena filholi
differs from
M. minutus
in the shape of ambulatory dactyli and the number of their subdistal teeth (dactylus gently curved inwards, with one subterminal tooth vs dactylus strongly curved inwards, with two subdistal teeth), the fusion of male pleonal somites (3–5 or 3– pleotelson functionally fused vs 3–4 fused), and the shape of gonopod 1 (proportionally stouter, with strongly bent apex vs more slender, with apex gently directed anteromesially).
Elamena filholi
is here transferred to
Micas
.