Decapod Crustacea collected by the NORFANZ Expedition: Galatheidae and Polychelidae
Author
Ahyong, Shane T.
text
Zootaxa
2007
1593
1
54
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.178624
7466bbb6-f889-4e40-b22d-e3aee96f9acb
1175-5326
178624
Paramunida labis
Macpherson, 1996
(
Fig. 20A
)
Paramunida labis
Macpherson, 1996
: 413
, figs. 9, 24 [
type
locality:
Futuna
Island
,
245–400 m
]. —
Baba 2005
: 302
.
Material examined.
Norfolk
Ridge:
AM P73029,
1 male
(
6.6 mm
), 1 ovigerous female (
7.5 mm
),
29°41.84’S
,
168°02.62’E
,
322–337 m
, TAN0308/020 #005,
14 May 2003
;
NIWA
28075, 1 ovigerous female (
7.9 mm
), near
Norfolk Island
,
29°02.24’S
,
167°35.96’E
,
0–1200 m
, TAN0308/025 #074,
15 May 2003
.
Colour in life.
Translucent with clear, diffuse orange mottling, darkest anteriorly. Chelipeds with orangered band across articulations. Walking legs with diffuse, clear orange-red banding; dactyli clear red.
FIGURE 20.
A,
Paramunida labis
Macpherson, 1996
, ovigerous female, 7.9 mm, TAN0308/025 (NIWA 28075). B,
Phylladiorhynchus
cf.
pusillus
(Henderson, 1885)
, female, 8.7 mm, TAN0308/126 (NIWA 28065).
Remarks.
The two specimens agree well with the
type
description, and extend the known range onto the
Norfolk
Ridge.
Paramunida labis
closely resembles
P. antipodes
Ahyong & Poore, 2004
, from southeastern
Australia
, differing in bearing one instead of three prominent cardiac spines and in the shorter mesiodistal spine on antennal segment 2 which reaches or only slightly overreaches the base of, rather than reaching or overreaching the end of segment 3.
Distribution.
Wallis and Futuna
Islands,
Fiji
,
Tonga
, and now from the vicinity of
Norfolk Island
;
245– 440 m
(
Macpherson 1996
).