Revision of the crab genus Garthambrus Ng, 1996, with the description of two new genera and discussion of the status of Tutankhamen Rathbun, 1925 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Parthenopidae)
Author
Mclay, Colin L.
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Zootaxa
2009
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.188125
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188125
Garthambrus posidon
Ng, 1996
(
Figs 6
E, F, 13A)
Garthambrus posidon
Ng, 1996: 159
, figs 1–5. – Ng & Tan 1999: 122.
Type
material.
HOLOTYPE
: male 66.1 x
41.6 mm
, (
RMNH
D 42686), data after Ng (1996) (not examined),
Seychelles
, south of Alphonse Atoll,
Tyro
Seychelles
Expedition 1992/93, stn 794,
7º03’S
,
52º43’E
, on coral rubble with poor epifauna,
480–600 m
, rectangular dredge,
5–6 Jan 1993
.
Material examined.
Madagascar
.
Stn P3, trawl 37,
12º51’S
,
48º06.30’E
,
675–705 m
, A. Crosnier coll.,
14 Sep 1972
:
1 male
35.3 x
23.8 mm
(MNHN-B31871). – Stn unknown, trawl 119,
12º50.7’S
,
48º06.0’E
,
750–765 m
, A. Crosnier coll.,
10 Oct 1974
:
1 male
39.4 x
26.5 mm
(MNHN-B31872).
Diagnosis.
Carapace surface sparsely tuberculate, not spinose, without deep lacunae; supra-orbital region not spinose. Tubercles on protogastric, mesogastric, epibranchial, mesobranchial and cardiac regions not fusing together to form smooth ridges or plates. Frontal projection short, less than one quarter carapace length. Tips of epibranchial margin teeth acute. Mesobranchial margin without a raised smooth triangular patch. Suborbital spine produced, spine tip extending beyond anterior outer corner of antennal article 2. Sub-branchial region tuberculate. Cheliped merus and carpus outer margin dentate, teeth low, tips blunt. Upper margin of P5 merus, carpus and propodus tuberculate; posterior surface of merus, carpus and propodus smooth.
Distribution.
Seychelles
and here for the first time
Madagascar
.
Remarks.
Garthambrus posidon
bears some resemblance to
G
.
poupini
in the morphology of the carapace. Ng (1996) listed several other characters that can be used to differentiate these species. The CW/CL ratio in
G.
posidon
is larger (1.5–1.6) compared with
1.3 in
G. poupin
i. Another character is the shape of the epibranchial teeth, which are short but sharp in
G.
posidon
, but blunt, the larger ones becoming slightly paxilliform, in
G
.
poupini
.