New records of crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the New Zealand region, including a new species of Rochinia A. Milne-Edwards, 1875 (Majidae), and a revision of the genus Dromia Weber, 1795 (Dromiidae)
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Zootaxa
2009
2009-05-18
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Dynomene pilumnoides
Alcock, 1900
(
Figs. 3a, b
)
Dynomene pilumnoides
Alcock, 1900:133
; l90l: 35, pl. 1, fig. 2. —
Barnard 1947:
371;
1950: 337
, f ig.65 a–c. —
Sakai 1965: 12
, pl. 6, fig. 2; 1976: 29, pl. 6, fig. 3. — Serène & Vadon l98l:121. —
Miyake 1983: 11
, pl.4, fig. 2. —
Baba 1986: 310
, fig. 163. —
Garth
et al.
1987: 241
. —
Nagai 1989: 43
. –
McLay 1999: 494
, figs 3c, d, 8d, e,
11, 12e
, f, 14c, 17d, 21a–g. —
McLay & Ng 2005: 20
. —
Guinot & Quenette 2005: 282
, fig. 4C, D
Maxillothrix actaeiformis
Stebbing, 1921: 457
, pl. 14 (Crust. Pl. 109).
Material Examined
.
Monowai Seamount
:
1 female
, 10.0 mm x
8.4 mm
,
27°12.51'S
177°26.02'E
, rock dredge,
Tangaroa
, stn TAN0411/32, 252–
403m
,
7 Oct. 2004
. (
NIWA 48574
)
Comparative Material.
Fiji
:
1 male
,
13.5 mm
x
11.4 mm
,
18°18.4' S
,
178°02.5' E
,
233–248 m
, MUSORSTOM 10, DW1377,
17 Aug. 1998
.
Remarks
.
Dynomene pilumnoides
is the second dynomenid species discovered in
New Zealand
.
D. pilumnoides
can be separated from the other dynomenid species,
Metadynomene tanensis
, by virtue of its 4 sub-acute anterolateral teeth (versus 3 blunt teeth) and the short plumose setae, interspersed with clumps of longer filiform setae, on its carapace (versus short soft setae all about the same length). Species of
Dynomene
are for the most part found in shallow water, occurring from the intertidal to
100 m
.
D. pilumnoides
has the greatest depth range,
18–400 m
, and it has been collected from rocky bottoms covered in
Lithothamnion
(Rhodophyta)
, sponges and corals. The specimen of
D. pilumnoides
was taken with a rock dredge that also caught
Cheiraster
sp. (Asteroides)
,
Bathymodiolus
sp.
and
Branchipolynoe
sp. (Polychaeta)
in other nearby samples. The Monowai Seamount is part of the Kermadec volcanic system.
The specimen (
Fig. 3b
) collected during the MUSORSTOM 10 expedition is a new record for
Fiji
. The seven species of
Dynomene
can be identified using the key provided by McLay (2001: 810).
Geographical Distribution
D. pilumnoides
has a wide
Indo-West Pacific
distribution that includes
Madagascar, Réunion, Australia, Indonesia, Philippines
,
Japan
,
Hawaiian Is
,
New Caledonia
, and now
Fiji
and the
Monowai Seamount
,
New Zealand
.
Depth
range is
18–403m
although most records come from
100–300m
.