Leucosiid crabs from Papua New Guinea, with descriptions of eight new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
Author
Galil, Bella S.
Author
Ng, Peter K. L.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4027
4
451
486
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4027.4.1
7e77f875-e8de-478e-a96b-19d376e00e3a
1175-5326
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Heterolithadia fallax
(Henderson, 1893)
(
Fig. 3
B–D)
Material examined
.
1 male
(
8.7 mm
) (
ZRC
2014.0172), stn PS22, north Tadwai I.,
04°59.1'S
145°47.6'E
,
11 m
,
22.11.2012
;
1 female
(
13.1 mm
) (
ZRC
2014.0168);
1 female
(
9.5 mm
) (MNHN-IU-2013-1195), stn PD66, south Yabob I.,
05°15.5'S
145°47.3'E
,
2–6 m
,
3.12.2012
;
1 male
(
8.1 mm
) (MNHN-IU-2013-17892), stn PS42, S Urembo I., outer slope,
05°15,9'S
145°47,1'E
,
18–27 m
,
6.12.2012
; 1 broken female (MNHN-IU-2013-1494), stn CP4035, east Kotakot,
04°31'S
145°31'E
,
380–382 m
,
17.12.2012
.
Colour in life
. Carapace bone-coloured, posteriorly mottled red-brown; cheliped merus proximally stained red-brown, fingers mottled with pale brown; ambulatory legs proximally reddish-brown (
Fig. 3
B–D).
Geographical distribution
.
India
to
Philippines
(
Tan 1996
),
Vanuatu
(
Galil & Ng 2010
). New record for
Papua New Guinea
.