Additional slipper lobsters of the subfamily Scyllarinae Latreille, 1825 (Crustacea, Achelata, Scyllaridae) from Taiwan
Author
Yang, Chien-Hui
Author
Lin, Chia-Wei
Author
Chan, Tin-Yam
text
Zootaxa
2014
3852
3
336
346
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3852.3.3
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Crenarctus bicuspidatus
(
De
Man
, 1905
)
(
Figs. 4
,
6
C)
Arctus bicuspidatus
De
Man
1905
: 589
(
type
locality:
Indonesia
).
Crenarctus bicuspidatus
.—
Holthuis 2002
: 664
, figs. 64–65,
69
F.—Chan 2010: 161, fig. F.—
Kim
et al
. 2013
: 117
, figs. 3, 4, 11B–C.
FIGURE 4.
Crenarctus bicuspidatus
(De Man, 1905)
, male 13.9 mm cl (NTOU
M01295
): A, carapace, dorsal view, with right anternnal segment IV deformed; B, abdominal tergties I-III, dorsal view; C, thoracic sternum; D, pereiopod I; E, pereiopod II; F, pereiopod III; G, pereiopod IV; H, pereiopod V. All right pereiopods. Scales = 5 mm.
Material examined
. Kaohsiung City, Zuoying, R.V. “Ocean Researcher III”,
9 Jan 2003
,
1 male
13.9 mm cl (
NTOU
M01295
). Penghu County,
SCUBA
diving,
21 Aug 2011
,
1 male
11.8 mm cl (NMMBCD4007).
Diagnosis
. Rostral and pregastric teeth present. Gastric tooth replaced by 2 tubercles. Cardiac tooth low and as 2 blunt tubercles. Orbital carina generally smooth and with 2 large teeth anteriorly. Medial incision on posterior margin of carapace deep. Abdomen with arborescent sculpture, without median dorsal carina. Posterior margin of abdominal tergites I–IV distinctly incised medially. Abdominal pleura II–IV each terminated in sharp point. Anterior margin of antenna segment VI bearing 6 or 7 large teeth. Antennal segment IV without additional carina, bearing 3–6 small teeth on anterior margin and 2 large teeth on outer margin. Dactylus of pereiopod II longest in all pereiopods. Propodus of pereiopod III bearing 2 parallel setose grooves. Anterior part of thoracic sternum with a large “U”-shaped notch, followed by a deep median suture, lateral angles strongly protruding forwards. Only last thoracic sternite bearing large median tubercle.
Coloration
. Body generally dark greenish brown. Middle of abdominal tergite I bearing a large black spot with thick whitish brown rim. Eyes dark brown. Pereiopods pale yellowish with dark blue bands.
Distribution
. Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific from
South Africa
to
Japan
and
New Caledonia
; at depths of
2–
108 m
.
Remarks
. The genus
Crenarctus
, containing only two species, is reported for the first time from
Taiwan
.
Crenarctus bicuspidatus
is a very widely distributed species and its general body color appears to have large variations. Photographs of New Caledonian (
Holthuis 2002
) and Korean (
Kim
et al
. 2013
: fig. 11B) specimens as well as an underwater photographs from an unspecified locality (
Humann & DeLoach 2010
) show an orangish body. Another photograph of a Madagascan specimen (Chan 2010) shows a body color of half orange and half dull green. The coloration of the two Taiwanese specimens and a Korean specimen (
Kim
et al
. 2013
: fig. 11C) are very similar and generally dark greenish brown. Nevertheless, all show a large median spot on the abdominal tergite I (though this spot is sometimes orange with a dark transverse band) and banded pereiopods.