Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Sea off East and Southeast Asia Collected by the RV Hakuhō Maru (KH- 72 - 1 Cruise) 2. Timor Sea
Author
Islam, Atikul
Author
Banerjee, Abhishek
Author
Wati, Sisca Meida
Author
Banerjee, Sumita
Author
Shrivastava, Deepti
Author
Srivastava, Kumar Chandan
text
Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology
2022
2022-02-22
48
1
5
24
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_1287_23
journal article
299034
10.50826/bnmnszool.48.1_5
75026286-ffe2-4545-be4b-6212ec4f0964
2434-091X
12571350
Platymaia fimbriata
Rathbun, 1916
(
Fig. 5E
)
Material examined
. RV
Hakuhō Maru
KH-72-1 cruise, sta. 26 (Timor Sea;
09°27.0′S
,
127°58.6′E
–09°285.0′S,
127°56.1′E
,
610–690 m
depth),
3 m
beam trawl;
June 19, 1972
; 1♂ (NSMT-Cr 29262: CL
9.3 mm
excluding pseudorostral spine, CB
8.7 mm
).
RV
Hakuhō Maru
KH-72-1 cruise, sta. 33 (Off Sahul Shelf,
12°42.2′S
,
123°07.6′E
–
12°42.0′S
,
123°08.5′E
,
535–547 m
depth),
3 m
beam trawl;
June 26, 1972
; 1♂ (NSMT-Cr 29263: CL 14.0 mm excluding pseudorostral spines, CB
12.6 mm
).
Remarks
. Of ten
Platymaia
species
enumerated by
Ng
et al.
(2008)
,
P. fimbriata
is very unique in having numerous spines on the carapace dorsal surface. Both specimens examined are small, but agree well with the original description (
Rathbun, 1916
) and the illustrations and photographs by
Sakai (1965
: pl. 5 fig. 5; 1976: pl. 58), Griffin (1976: fig. 9), and
Guinot and Richer de Forges (1985
: figs. 7, 8A–B, pl. 1 fig. F–G).
Distribution
. Eastern
Australia
,
Indonesia
, the
Philippines
and
Japan
;
250–1095 m
depth.
Davie (2002)
listed this species in the Zoological Catalogue of
Australia
based on the records by
Griffin and Tranter (1986a)
and
Davie and Short (1989)
.