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
ae1af4e1-c35d-41db-99cc-8e05c3e3f510
2434-091X
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Hyastenus campbelli
Griffin and Tranter, 1986
(
Fig. 6A
)
Material examined
.
RV
Hakuhō Maru
KH-72-1 cruise, sta. 29, 1 Ə (
CB 7.7
×
PCL
12.4 mm
), NSMT-Cr 30717; 1 ♀ (4.7×
7.4 mm
),
4 juv.
(2.6×
4.4 mm
– 4.3×
7.2 mm
), NSMT-Cr 30718. — Sta. 30, 1 ovig. ♀ (
CB 10.4
×
PCL
15.8 mm
), NSMT-Cr 30719
.
Remarks
.
Ng
et al.
(2008)
enumerated 37 species in the genus
Hyastenus
. After that, three species were described from the West Pacific:
H. baru
Windsor and Ahyong, 2013
,
H. tabolongi
Lee and Ng, 2019
from north Sulawesi,
H. ducator
Lee and Ng, 2020
from
China
. In addition,
H. verreauxii
A.
Milne-Edwards, 1872
from "Nouvelle-Hollande" (=
Australia
) was synonymized under
H. elatus
Griffin and Tranter, 1986
from Sydney Harbour, based on the reversal of precedence under the provisions of the International Cord of Zoological Nomenclature invoked by
Lee
et al.
(2018)
. Consequently, the genus
Hyastenus
presently comprises 39 species.
The present specimens identified as
H. campbelli
essentially agree with the original description by
Griffin and Tranter (1986)
, though there is a small tubercle on the hepatic region and no broad low tubercle near posterolateral angle of the pleonites 4 and 5. The
15.8 mm
in CL measurement is the smallest record for an ovigerous female of the species.
Hyastenus campbelli
is similar to
H. diacanthus
(De Haan, 1837),
H. cracentis
Griffin and Tranter, 1986
, and
H. elatus
, but distinguished from them by the absence of tubercle from both the protogastric and mesogastric regions. Other differences were discussed by
Griffin and Tranter (1986)
.
Distribution
. Irian Jaya, Aru Island, Sahul Shelf, and northern and
western Australia
; low intertidal to
115 m
depth. This species has been dredged and trawled from sandy to sandy-mud substrates with coral, sponge, rubble and shells (
Davie, 2002
).