New occurrences of lithodid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) from the coasts of Africa, with the description of a new species of Paralomis White, 1856
Author
Muñoz, Isabel
Author
García-Isarch, Eva
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Zootaxa
2013
3670
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45
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3670.1.3
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1175-5326
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Lithodes mamillifer
Macpherson, 1988
Lithodes murrayi
.—
Kensley, 1977: 166, fig. 3 (not
L. murrayi
Henderson, 1888
).
Lithodes mamillifer
Macpherson, 1988b: 122
, pls. 2A–B, 3A; Ahyong, 2010: 15 (list); McLaughlin
et al
., 2010: 12 (list).
Material examined.
Mozambique
:
MOZAMBIQUE
0307, stn 4,
26
°47.6'S,
33°08.5'E
,,
619–621 m
,
14.III.2007
,
1 female
, 53 ×
51 mm
(IEO-CD-MZ07/300);
MOZAMBIQUE
0 308, stn 92,
26
°47.6' S,
33°52.7'E
,
675–681 m
,
5.IV.2008
,
2 females
, 59 ×
57 mm
(IEO-CD-MZ08/301), 32 ×
30 mm
(IEO-CD-MZ08/302);
MOZAMBIQUE
0308, stn 104,
26
°46.9'S,
33°11.5'E
,
691–692 m
,
7.IV.2007
,
2 females
, 40 ×
37 mm
(IEO-CD- MZ08/303), 27 ×
24 mm
(IEO-CD-MZ08/304) and
2 males
, 37 ×
33 mm
(IEO-CD-MZ08/305), 15 ×
14 mm
(IEO- CD-MZ08/306);
MOZAMBIQUE
0308, stn 108,
26
°35.2'S,
33°16.3'E
,
659–664 m
,
8.IV.2008
,
2 females
, 37 ×
35 mm
(IEO-CD-MZ08/307), 33 ×
30 mm
(IEO-CD-MZ08/308) and
1 male
, 13 ×
11 mm
(IEO-CD-MZ08/309);
MOZAMBIQUE
0309, stn 7,
26
°46.3'S,
33°12.4'E
,
690 m
,
14.III.2009
,
3 females
, 38 ×
36 mm
(IEO-CD-MZ09/ 312), 24 ×
22 mm
(IEO-CD-MZ09/313), 13 ×
13 mm
(IEO-CD-MZ09/314);
MOZAMBIQUE
0309, stn 92,
25
°58.4'S,
34°36.4'E
,
619–623 m
,
2.IV.2009
, 1 ovigerous female, 169 ×
152 mm
(IEO-CD-MZ09/315);
MOZAMBIQUE
0309, stn 107,
26
°34.7'S,
33°42.3'E
,
685 m
,
5.IV.2009
,
2 males
, 23 ×
22 mm
(IEO-CD-MZ09/ 310), 14 ×
13 mm
(IEO-CD-MZ09/311).
Distribution.
The species was previously known only from the
type
locality (
Madagascar
) and
Natal
(
South Africa
) between 550 and
800 m
(Kensley 1974; Macpherson 1988b). The present material extends its geographic distribution slightly to the north (
Mozambique
), between 619 and
692 m
.