Pacific Ocean, with a reappraisal of the subfamily Pinnotherinae de Haan, 1833 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)
Author
Campos, Ernesto
text
Zootaxa
2009
2022
29
44
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.186086
34491f5d-e23b-40d7-9d4c-41714503582e
1175-5326
186086
Enigmatheres canfieldi
(
Rathbun, 1918
)
,
new combination
(
Fig. 1
A–E)
Raphonotus subquadratus
Rathbun, 1904
: 106
(part: specimen from Monterey, California,
fide
Rathbun, 1918
). (Not
Raphonotus subquadratus
Dana, 1851
).
Fabia canfieldi
Rathbun, 1918
: 12
, 101, 102, 106–107, pl. 24, fig. 5–7, text-fig. 57;
Schmitt, 1921
: 254
–255, pl.39, fig. 5–6:
Balss, 1957
: 1420
;
Schmitt
et al.
, 1973
: 7
, 22:
Dai, 1980
: 136
;
Campos, 1996b
:
1174
–1175; Ng
et al.
, 2008: 249 (listed).
Distribution and host
. Known from only Monterey, California, the
type
locality; in folds of the keyhole limpet
Megathura crenulata
(Sowerby, 1825)
.
Material examined
.
Holotype
of
Fabia canfieldi
Rathbun, 1918
: 1
damaged female (
USNM
8445).
Redescription of
holotype
. Carapace damaged (crushed as to be for the most part beyond description). Front devoid of setae, with short, longitudinal median depression.
Third maxilliped obliquely placed in buccal cavity; ischium, merus indistinguishably fused; palp 3- segmented; carpus larger than conical propodus; dactylus small, narrow, inserted on middle third of medioventral margin of propodus. Exopod with 2-segmented flagellum (
Fig. 1
A–B).
FIGURE 1.
Enigmatheres canfieldi
(Rathbun, 1918)
new combination
, Monterey, California (USNM 8445). Adult female: A–B, left outer and right inner view of MXP3; C, left cheliped; D, pollex and dactylus of left cheliped; E, left and right walking legs, respectively. Scales: A = 0.57 mm; B = 0.47 mm; C–D not at scale; E = 1 mm.
Chelipeds elongated (
Fig. 1
C), palm slightly increasing in width distally, fingers shorter than palm, slightly deflexed, ventral margin of propodus slightly concave; fingers not gaping when closed, setose along inner surface; with prehensile tooth at proximal third of cutting edge of dactylus, smaller one at base of pollex; cutting edge of both fingers with small teeth (
Fig. 1
C).
Walking legs subcylindrical, naked, relative length 2> 3> 1> 4; second leg asymmetrical, right 1/3 longer than left; WL1 stouter than others; propodi slightly curved, slightly stouter at distal end than at proximal, except right WL2 which tapers to distal end; longest right WL2 dactylus differs from others dactili in being nearly straight to tip; other dactyli shorter, slender, conical, more curved toward hooked, hard tip (
Fig. 1
E).
Abdomen of six somites and telson well separated.
Remarks
. The presence of a thin, translucent and soft carapace, enlarged carpus of MXP3 and asymmetrical WL2 are characters that suggest
Enigmatheres
is related to the genus
Austinotheres
Campos, 2002
.
Enigmatheres
differs from
Austinotheres
in the gently curved outer margin of the MXP3 ischiummerus, and by the insertion of the dactylus on the middle third of the ventral margin of the conical propodus.
Austinotheres
has an obtuse angle on the MXP3 outer margin and the dactylus of this appendage is inserted further distally on the propodus.
Austinotheres
can be also distinguished from
Enigmatheres
by its slender and long walking legs, with blade-shaped and slightly curved dactyli. Both
Enigmatheres
and
Austinotheres
can be distinguished from other pinnotherids by the asymmetrical WL2 and the shape and relative length of the MXP3 palp articles, particularly the carpus being larger than the propodus, as well as the small and narrow dactylus being inserted medially or distally on the medioventral margin of the propodus. Others genera currently in the
Pinnotheridae
have symmetrical walking legs and/or the dactylus of MXP3 is inserted on the middle or proximal ventral margin of a propodus which is always larger than the carpus.