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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Camatopsis minor
n. sp.
(
Figs. 8
G, H; 23F; 39G, H; 69A‒F; 86E)
?
Camatopsis rubida
—
Serène & Soh 1976
: 23, fig. 21 [Andaman Sea]. Not
Camatopsis rubida
Alcock & Anderson, 1899
.
Camatopsis rubida
Forma
B—Tesch 1918: 235 (part) [
Indonesia
] (other Forma B specimens =
Microtopsis teschi
n. sp.
). Not
Camatopsis rubida
Alcock & Anderson, 1899
.
Type
material
.
Holotype
male (3.6 ×
4.3 mm
) (NNM-ZMA),
Indonesia
,
Java
,
Kwandang Bay
,
Siboga Expedition
, stn 114,
75 m.
Paratypes: 2 females (4.0 ×
4.9 mm
, 2.7 ×
3.5 mm
) (NNM-ZMA), collected with the holotype.
Other material examined
.
Indonesia
.
SIBOGA EXPEDITION
:
1 male
(3.8 ×
4.6 mm
)
,
2 males
(partially crushed) (NNM-ZMA), stn 116, west of
Kwandang Bay
entrance,
72 m
, 07.1899
;
1 male
(3.4 × 4.0 mm) (
NNM-
ZMA
), stn 260, northwest of
Kei Is.
,
90 m
, 0 7.1899.
Diagnosis
. Carapace (
Fig. 8
G, H) subtrapezoidal, 1.0‒1.3 wider than long; front bilobed, with shallow to sometimes deep median cleft; anterolateral margins arcuate, carapace minutely granular with granules higher along lateral margins, without distinct lobes or teeth. Eye peduncle (
Fig. 23
F) filling orbit, short, slightly mobile; cornea reduced, with reduced pigmentation. Epistome (
Fig. 23
F) with wide, semicircular median lobe with deep median fissure, semicircular lateral margins. Third maxilliped merus subcircular, ischium subquadrate, about same length as merus. Proportionally short ambulatory legs (
Fig. 8
G). Chelipeds (
Figs. 8
G, H; 39G, H) subequal in length, slightly dissimilar in females, heteromorphic in males. Major chela of males (
Fig. 39
G) with thick propodus, cutting margins with small teeth, distal end of pollex overlapping dactylus.
Minor
chela of both sexes (
Fig. 39
H) with short teeth of about same size. Inner margin of cheliped carpus smooth. Fused thoracic sternites 1, 2 (
Fig. 69
A) triangular, proportionally narrow, short. Male pleon (
Fig. 69
B) with proportionally short telson. G1 (
Fig. 69
C‒E) stout, distal segment straight, tip directed upwards, with short spinules, distal segment flared, medially cleft. G2 (
Fig. 69
F) about 1/2 G1 length, straight, slender, distal segment short, straight. Female pleon (
Fig. 86
E) with lateral margins of somites strongly convex; telson proportionally short. Sterno-pleonal cavity moderately deep, vulvae far apart from each other.
Etymology
. The species epithet
minor
alludes to the small size of adults.
FIGURE 8.
Overall dorsal view of species of
Camatopsis
. A,
C. leptomerus
n. sp.
, Philippines: holotype male 10.5 × 11.3 mm (NMCR); B,
C. leptomerus
n. sp.
, Philippines: paratype female 12.7 × 13.2 mm (ZRC 2015.170); C,
C. leptomerus
n. sp.
, Philippines: paratype female 3.4 × 4.0 mm (ZRC 2015.159); D,
C. leptomerus
n. sp.
, Philippines: paratype female 4.8 × 5.8 mm (ZRC 2015.154); E,
C. leptomerus
n. sp.
, Indonesia: male 4.2 × 5.0 mm (NNM-ZMA 241605c); F,
C. leptomerus
n. sp.
, Philippines: paratype male 3.1 × 3.4 mm (ZRC 2015.120); G,
C. minor
n. sp.
, Indonesia: holotype male 3.6 × 4.3 mm (NNM- ZMA); H,
C. minor
n. sp.
, Indonesia: paratype female 4.0 × 4.9 mm (NNM-ZMA).
Remarks
. The recognition of this new species is necessary because it appears to mature at a much smaller adult size than in other
Camatopsis
species as well as having a characteristic G1 structure.
Serène & Soh (1976: 23, fig. 21)
recorded and figured the G1 of a small male specimen (4.5 × 5.0 mm) from
Phuket
in the Andaman Sea that they identified as “
Camatopsis rubida
”. The G1 is characteristic by being straight with the tip flared and with a median cleft. We have found the same G
1 in
small specimens from the
Indonesia
Siboga
material that we initially assumed belonged to young males with the structure expected to change with growth. Small specimens of
C. rubida
and
C. leptomerus
n. sp.
, however, at less than 4 or
5 mm
in carapace width from
Indonesia
and
Philippines
already have the characteristic G1 structure of their respective species (e.g.,
Fig. 68
A, B), and as such, the differences observed with
C. minor
n. sp.
cannot be attributed to growth. In addition, small females of
C. minor
n. sp.
already have the pleon and pleopods fully developed. The smaller chela of
C. minor
n. sp.
, however, does not have the two upright, vertical teeth on the cutting margin of the pollex that is typical of adults of
Camatopsis
species. While the chelae of
C. minor
n. sp.
show asymmetry, with one chela swollen and enlarged (
Fig. 39
G, H), indicating it is already mature, small specimens of other
Camatopsis
species of a similar size generally have both chelae similarly structured (e.g.,
Figs. 39
C, D). As such, we recognise a new species for this Indonesian material that was originally been identified by
Tesch (1918)
as “
Camatopsis rubida
Form B
” (see discussion under
C. rubida
). We also provisionally include Serène & Soh’s (1976) record from the Andaman Sea.
Distribution.
Indonesia
and questionably Andaman Sea. Depth:
72‒
90 m
.