Description of Durckheimia lochi n. sp., with an annotated checklist of Australian Pinnotheridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
Author
Ahyong, Shane T.
Author
Brown, Diane E.
text
Zootaxa
2003
254
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.156571
063d162c-e41a-4af1-89ab-a678ab3d49f5
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156571
Pinnotheres villosulus
GuérinMéneville, 1831
Pinnotheres villosulus
GuérinMéneville, 1831: 7
, pl. 4: fig. 6 [
type
locality: Timor,
Indonesia
]. —
Miers, 1886
: 277
, pl. 22: fig. 2. —
Tesch, 1918
: 251
, 252, 255, 256. —
Rathbun, 1924
: 13
, 14, pl. 1: fig. 8, fig. 4. —
Schmitt et al., 1973
: 91
. — Davie, 2001: 434.
Pinnotheres villosus
. — Jones & Morgan, 2002: 202 (colour figure) (misspelling).
Material. QLD:
AM P64671,
1 female
(cw
11.6 mm
, cl
10.9 mm
), Lindeman Id., reef,
Dec 1928
, M. Ward; AM P45250,
1 female
(cw
8.8 mm
, cl
8.2 mm
), Port Curtis and North West Island,
23°36’S
,
151°33’E
, M. Ward & W. Boardman,
Jul 1929
–
Jan 1930
; AM G4226,
11 females
(cw
10.4–13.2 mm
, cl
10.2–12.9 mm
), Gulf of Carpentaria, C. Hedley.
WA:
AM P10228,
2 females
(cw
11.5–12.8 mm
, cl
10.7–12.4 mm
), Broome,
17°58’S
,
122°14’E
, H. Clark,
Jun 1932
; AM P64554,
24 females
(cw 10.0–
15.4 mm
, cl
10.2–15.1 mm
), Roebuck Bay, Broome,
18°06’S
,
122°20’E
,
16.5 m
, from pearl oysters,
15 Aug 1929
.
Australian hosts.
Bivalve molluscs. Pearl oysters (probably
Pinctada
sp.,
Pteriidae
) (this study).
Remarks.
The female from Lindeman Island is not referable to
Pinnotheres
sp. reported by
Ward (1967)
. Ward's (1967)
Pinnotheres
sp. was from a
Pinna
sp. in shallow water off a beach, rather than reef as in the present Lindeman Island specimen. Another Lindeman Island specimen collected by Ward could be the basis of his 1967 report (see above account of
A. similis
).
Distribution.
Philippines
,
Indonesia
, New
Guinea
,
Australia
(
Schmitt et al. 1973
). The Australian range includes Torres Strait, Cape Jaubert, Western
Australia
, and now Broome, Western
Australia
, northeastern Queensland and the Gulf of Carpentaria.