Revision of the family Chasmocarcinidae Serène, 1964 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Goneplacoidea)
Author
Ng, Peter K. L.
Author
Castro, Peter
text
Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
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Microtopsis takedai
Komai, Ng & Yamada, 2012
(
Figs. 18
A; 27A; 48A, B; 55B; 62A; 80A, B; 81A–F; 88E; 92A)
Microtopsis takedai
Komai, Ng & Yamada, 2012: 149
, figs. 1‒5 [type localilty: Japan, Ryukyu Is.].
Type
material
.
Holotype
male (2.4 ×
3.1 mm
) (CBM-ZC 10491),
Japan
,
Ryukyu Is
,
Okinawa
, Nago.
Paratype: female (2.8 ×
3.4 mm
) (CBM-ZC 10492), male and female (ZRC 2012.0146), type locality.
Other material examined
.
Japan
.
1 male
(damaged)
,
1 female
(3.6 ×
2.7 mm
) (
ZRC
2012.0146
),
Awa
,
Nago
,
Okinawa
,
13 m
, scuba diving,
Y. Yamada
coll., 0 2.01.2011.
Diagnosis
. Carapace (
Fig. 18
A;
Komai
et al.
2012
: figs. 1; 2A; 2B) subtrapezoidal, 1.2‒1.3 wider than long; front nearly straight; anterolateral margins arcuate, minutely dentate, without distinct lobes or teeth; dorsal surface almost smooth except for minute granules on lateral surfaces. Epistome (
Fig. 27
A;
Komai
et al.
2012
: fig. 2C) slightly depressed; posterior margin with widely semicircular median lobe with median fissure, semicircular lateral margins without fissures. Eye peduncle (
Fig. 27
A;
Komai
et al.
2012
: fig. 2B) filling orbit, long, mobile; cornea reduced, pigmented. Third maxillipeds (
Fig. 80
A;
Komai
et al.
2012
: fig. 3A) not filling buccal cavern when closed; merus subcircular, anteroexternal angle rounded, narrower than ischium; ischium quadrate, widened inner margin, about same length as merus (
Fig. 80
A;
Komai
et al.
2012
: 3A). Chelipeds (
Figs. 18
A; 48A, B;
Komai
et al.
2012
: figs. 3B, D; 5A, B) subequal in length, slightly dissimilar in female, heteromorphic in males; cutting margins of both chelipeds of females,
minor
in males with dense row of short setae (
Fig. 48
B;
Komai
et al.
2012
: figs. 3D, 5A, B), largest chela of male (
Fig. 48
A;
Komai
et al.
2012
: 3B) high, with broad teeth on pollex, dentate dactylus. Inner margin of cheliped carpus (
Fig. 18
A;
Komai
et al.
2012
: 3C, E) with short tooth. Ventral surface of cheliped merus with short row of low microscopic tubercles on posterior outer margin in both sexes. Meri of ambulatory legs unarmed; P5 merus 0.5 cl in
paratype
female. Fused thoracic sternites 1, 2 (
Fig. 55
B;
Komai
et al.
2012
: fig. 2D) broadly triangular, proportionally long, short; fused sternites 3, 4 (
Figs. 88
E; 92A;
Komai
et al.
2012
: fig. 2E) relatively broad. Male pleon (
Figs. 55
B; 62A; 80B;
Komai
et al.
2012
: fig. 2D; 2H) with lateral margins of somite 6, fused somites 3‒5 convex; telson proportionally short; postero-lateral regions slightly swollen. Sterno-pleonal cavity deep. Press-button for pleonal holding (
Komai
et al.
2012
: fig. 2G) as small, short tubercle posterior to thoracic sternal suture 4/5 near edge of sterno-pleonal cavity. G1 (
Fig. 81
A‒E;
Komai
et al.
2012
: fig. 4A‒E) stout, short, median part distinctly twisted, distal part slightly twisted, distal segment with short spinules. G2 (
Fig. 81
F);
Komai
et al.
2012
: fig. 4F) slightly curved, slender, pointed distal segment, almost as long as G1. Somites of female pleon (
Fig. 88
E;
Komai
et al.
2012
: fig. 5D) with convex lateral margins; telson proportionally short. Sterno-pleonal cavity of female (
Fig. 92
A;
Komai
et al.
2012
: fig. 5C) moderately deep, vulvae far apart from each other on outer margins of cavity close to suture 5/6.
FIGURE 18.
Overall dorsal view of species of
Microtopsis
. A,
M. takedai
, Japan: paratype female 3.6 × 2.7 mm (ZRC 2012.0146); B,
M. teschi
n. sp.
, Indonesia: holotype male 1.5 × 2.1 mm (NNM-ZMA); C,
M. teschi
n. sp.
, Indonesia: paratype male 1.5 × 1.9 mm (NNM-ZMA).
Remarks
. The third maxilliped merus is incorrectly described and illustrated by
Komai
et al
. (2012
: fig. 3A). It is not subtriangular, but rather more subcircular, with the anterior margin even rather than distinctly produced. The “supplementary plate” (
Fig. 62
A), which is about the same short length along thoracic sternite 8 and reaches episternite
7 in
the
paratype
male (ZRC 2012.0146), is not as narrow and not reaching the posterior edge of the pleon as depicted in the
holotype
by
Komai
et al
. (2012
: fig. 3E).
Distribution
. Known only from
Japan
. Depth:
13 m
.