Additions to the decapod crustacean fauna of the Hawaiian Islands, I. A review of the genus Sakaila Manning and Holthuis, 1981 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Aethridae), with the description of a new species from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Author
Martin, Joel W.
Research and Collections Branch, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, U. S. A. E-mail: jmartin @ nhm. org
Author
Godwin, Scott
Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, PO Box 1346, Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744, U. S. A. E-mail: lgodwin @ hawaii. edu
Author
Moffitt, Robert
NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, 2570 Dole Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, U. S. A. E-mail: Robert. Moffitt @ noaa. gov
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Zootaxa
2009
2009-02-23
2018
25
44
journal article
1175-5326
D1577234-5BB8-4E0C-8984-8BBDF4E3CCDD
Sakaila africana
Manning and Holthuis, 1981
This species was described based on
two specimens
from off west Africa,
one male
(the
holotype
) collected off Annabon Island (station 284,
Pillsbury
Material) at a depth of
73 m
(
Fig. 10
) and a second male collected off
Gabon
(station 235,
Geronimo
material) at a depth of
100 m
(
Manning and Holthuis, 1981: 325
). The species had been confused for many years with
Osachila stimpsoni
Studer, 1833
, and had been described as that species by Monod (1956) and by
Guinot (1966
,
1967
) (see remarks in
Manning and Holthuis, 1981: 325
). It is known from several localities along the coast of west Africa from depths of
65 to 132 m
(
Guinot and Forest, 1966
;
Manning and Holthuis, 1981
). The male
holotype
(
RMNH
Crust. D. 31541) is housed in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Histoire, Leiden,
The Netherlands
; the male
paratype
(
USNM
139766) is in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The first author examined the male
paratype
, which consists only of the carapace and abdomen (no appendages) and found that it agrees well with the original description and illustrations of the
holotype
given by
Manning and Holthuis (1981)
(figure repeated here as our
Fig. 10
). The
paratype
, which is exactly half the size of the
holotype
(CL
11.5 mm
, CW
15 mm
, vs. CL
22 mm
and CW
30 mm
for the
holotype
female), is noticeably more toothed on the lateral and posterolateral borders of the carapace.