Ten Species of Crabs of the Families Acidopsidae, Aphanodactylidae and Pilumnidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan
Author
deVries, Maaike
Author
McGillis Hall, Linda
Author
Dainty, Katie
Author
Fan, Mark
Author
Tscheng, Dorothy
Author
Hamilton, Michael
Author
Trbovich, Patricia
text
Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology
2024
2024-11-22
50
4
155
169
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2025.01.001
journal article
10.50826/bnmnszool.50.4_155
2434-091X
14680481
Pilumnus tahitensis
De
Man, 1890
[NJn: Tahichi-kebukagani]
(
Fig. 4A–C
)
Pilumnus tahitensis
De
Man, 1890
, p 61
, pl. 3 fig. 4. —
Ortmann, 1893
, p. 437
. —
Rathbun, 1907
, p. 56
; 1911, p. 229. —
Balss, 1933
, p. 25
; 1938, p. 68. —
Miyake, 1939
, p. 218
(in list). —
Holthuis, 1953
, p. 25
. —
Forest & Guinot, 1961
, p. 129
, fig. 125. —
Takeda & Miyake, 1968
, pp. 6 (in key), 15.
Material examined
.
ɹ
Chichi-jima Is. —Sujiiwa-misaki (
27°07′50′′N
,
142°10′46′′E
), Ani-jima I.,
9 m
, 1
ˁ
(cb 6.2×cl
4.9 mm
), NSMT-Cr 32402,
27-VI-2014
, coll. by H. Komatsu.
Remarks.
ɹ
As stressed by the original author (De
Man, 1890
) and
Takeda and Miyake (1968)
, the upper margin of the movable finger and the lower margin of the immovable finger, and the outer surface of each finger are thickly crested throughout the whole lengths, leaving a longitudinal deep furrow between the crests in each finger (
Fig. 4C
). The long club-shaped hairs covering the carapace, chelipeds and ambulatory legs and the narrow carapace armed with three sharp anterolateral spines are as seen in
Fig. 4A–B
. The outer halves of the supraorbital and infraorbital margins are raised and thin to form the deep orbit, with a deep cleft just below the external orbital part, with a spinule as the external orbital angle. A subhepatic spinule is seen between the external orbital angle and the first anterolateral spine.
Distribution
.
ɹ
Although the records of occurrence are not many, but the geographical range is wide from
Madagascar
and
Seychelles
in the western Indian Ocean to Tahiti and Tuamotu Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean and to the
Solomon Islands
and Micronesian islands in the western Pacific Ocean. New to Japanese waters.