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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Megaesthesius westralia
Davie, 2013
(
Figs. 19
M–R; 34C; 82J–M)
Megaesthesius sagedae
—Poore
et al.
2008: 46. Not
Megaesthesius sagedae
Rathbun, 1909
.
Megaesthesius westralia
Davie, 2013: 470
, figs. 1, 2, 3A‒E [
type
locality:
Western
Australia
].
Type
material
.
Holotype
male (3.4 ×
3.8 mm
) (
NMV
J54597
),
Australia
,
Western
Australia
, off
Ningaloo
,
Southern Surveyor
, stn SS10-2005,
22°04.00’S
,
113°48.40'E
,
Sherman
sled,
101-106 m
,
10.12.2005
.
Diagnosis
. Carapace (
Fig. 19
M; Davie 2013: fig. 1A, B) subquadrate, 1.1 wider than long; front bilobed, with deep median cleft; dorsal surface with low, spherical tubercles. Lateral margins straight, parallel to each other, each with 4 teeth (last as large tubercle) separated by deep notches. Long orbits, eye peduncle elongated (
Fig. 19
O); Davie 2013: fig. 2A, B), immobile, cornea reduced, non-pigmented. Antennule greatly enlarged (
Fig. 19
N, O; Davie 2013: fig. 1), particularly in males. Third maxillipeds (
Fig. 34
C; Davie 2013: fig. 2C) nearly fill buccal cavern when closed; merus subtriangular, outer margin with small teeth; ischium subquadrate, outer margin with small teeth, about same size as merus; outer margins of merus, ischium with small spines. Chelipeds unknown. Proportionally short ambulatory legs (
Fig. 19
Q, R; Davie 2013: fig. 2D, E), dorsal, ventral margins of meri of P4 with minute teeth. Fused thoracic sternites 1, 2 (
Fig. 19
P; Davie 2013: fig. 1B, C) broadly triangular, proportionally broad, short. Male pleon (
Fig. 19
P; Davie 2013: fig. 3E) with lateral margins of somite 6, fused somites 3–5 nearly straight; postero-lateral regions slightly swollen; telson proportionally short. G1 (
Fig. 82
J–L; Davie 2013: fig. 3A– C) slender, distal segment straight, with spinules, apex slanted. G2 (
Fig. 82
M; Davie 2013: fig. 3D) nearly as long as G1, straight; slender, distal segment long, curved, as long as basal segment, directed inward. Female unknown.
Remarks
. This species is known only from one male specimen without chelipeds. It is apparently closest to
M. yokoyai
, but can be separated by a suite of carapace, ambulatory legs, male pleon, and G1 characters (see key to species of
Megaesthesius
).
Distribution
. Known only from
Western
Australia
. Depth:
101-
106 m
.