Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Seas of East and Southeast Asia Collected by the RV Hakuhō Maru (KH- 72 - 1 Cruise) 3. Sahul Shelf
Author
Manikandan, K
Author
Megalaa, N
Author
Valliappan, Subramanian
Author
Nandini, K
Author
Rani, Lourdu V
Author
Dakshinamurthi, Senthil
Author
Nagappan, Nagappan
text
Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology
2022
2022-05-20
48
2
35
83
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_806_23
journal article
303514
10.50826/bnmnszool.48.2_35
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2434-091X
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Lupocycloporus gracilimanus
(Stimpson, 1858)
(
Fig. 13D
)
Material examined.
RV
Hakuhō Maru
KH-72-1 cruise, sta. 29, 2 ƏƏ (
CB
29.5 mm
excluding lateral tubercles×CL
20.4 mm
; 29.8×
20.8 mm
), NSMT-Cr 30732; 1 ovig. $ (24.4×
17.3 mm
), NSMT-Cr 30733; 1$ (27.1×
18.9 mm
), NSMT-Cr 30734. — Sta. 30, 1Ə (
CB
29.3 mm
excluding lateral tubercles× CL
17.8 mm
), 1 ovig. $ (31.2×
18.5 mm
), NSMT-Cr 30735.
Remarks
.
Three males
and
three females
, of which
two females
are ovigerous, agree well with the photographs of
Portunus gracilimanus
given by
Stephenson and Campbell (1959
: pl. 4 fig. 1, pl. 5 fig. M),
Takeda and Miyake (1969a
: fig. 1), and
Dai and Yang (1981
: pl. 27 fig. 6) in the characteristic arrangements of the
epi-
and protogastric linear, transverse ridges of the carapace, and both cheliped fingers being rather prominently curved outward at the tips. Figures were also given by A.
Milne-Edwards (1861)
as
Achelous Whitei
A. Milne-Edwards
, and by
Chopra (1935)
and
Shen (1937)
as
Neptunus
(Lupocycloporus)
gracilimanus
.
Distribution
. Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific from the East
China
Sea southwards to
Queensland
,
Australia
and westwards to the east coast of
India
,
5–55 m
depth.