Squat lobsters of the superfamily Chirostyloidea (Decapoda: Anomura) from seamounts on the Nishi-Shichito and Mariana ridges, North-West Pacific off Japan, with descriptions of two new species
Author
Komai, Tomoyuki
Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, 955 - 2 Aoba-cho, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260 - 8682, Japan.
Author
Tsuchida, Shinji
0000-0002-8600-2386
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2 - 15, Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka 237 - 0061, Kanagawa, Japan. tsuchidas @ jamstec. go. jp; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8600 - 2386
tsuchidas@jamstec.go.jp
Author
Fujiwara, Yoshihiro
0000-0002-1833-1866
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2 - 15, Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka 237 - 0061, Kanagawa, Japan. tsuchidas @ jamstec. go. jp; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8600 - 2386 & fujiwara @ jamstec. go. jp; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1833 - 1866
fujiwara@jamstec.go.jp
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-05-19
5293
1
45
73
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5293.1.2
journal article
53350
10.11646/zootaxa.5293.1.2
1ae5d11a-5246-409f-aa01-309a45ab0e3d
1175-5326
7959733
727F3FD8-4E36-4F19-AAB2-060121DB9F59
Genus
Sternostylus
Baba, Ahyong & Schnabel, 2018
[New Japanese name: Tsuno-wara-ebi-zoku]
Remarks.
Baba
et al.
(2018)
separated the genus
Gastroptychus
Caullery, 1896
into two genera. Twelve species were assigned to the new genus
Sternostylus
based on the shape of the sternite 3, which slopes anteriorly with a pair of spines on the anterior surface, the close placement of the maxilliped 3 coxae and the dactyli of the pereopods 2–4 ending in a clearly demarcated, corneous unguis. Using molecular evidence,
Schnabel (2020)
showed that
Sternostylus
is indeed in intermediate position between
Kiwaidae
and
Chirostylidae
. Since the establishment of
Sternostylus
and
Sternostylidae
by
Baba
et al.
(2018)
, two new species have been described from the West Pacific region (
Schnabel 2020
;
Dong
et al.
2021
). Including the present new species, 15 species are now contained in
Sternostylus
.