New genera, new species and new records of Indo-West Pacific spider crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Epialtidae: Majoidea)
Author
Forges, Bertrand Richer De
Author
Ng, Peter K. L.
text
Zootaxa
2009
2025
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.186148
199925e3-0b11-4615-a52f-16d1a44f7a99
1175-5326
186148
Oxypleurodon carbunculum
(
Rathbun, 1906
)
Figs. 2
A–C, 3E, F
Sphenocarcinus carbunculus
Rathbun, 1906
: 879
, Pl. 14 fig. 6. –
Rathbun 1916
: 542
. – Guinot & Richer de Forges 1986: 33, fig. 1E.
Oxypleurodon carbunculus
— Richer de
Forges 1995
: 54
, Pl. 1B, figs. 1E, 4G, H.
Oxypleurodon carbunculum
— Ng
et al.
2008: 104.
Material examined.
Hawaiian Islands
. Hawaii,
Albatross
, stn. 38, TC 33,
2 males
(19.9 x
16.5 mm
, 12.6 x
10.9 mm
), 1 ovigerous female (13.3 x
16.6 mm
) (
BPBM
Acc. N° 1981.136).
Remarks.
This species was originally described by
Rathbun (1906)
as a species of
Sphenocarcinus
. Collected by the
Albatross
, this is a species which is rarely mentioned and apparently never recorded since its original description. The discovery of the three BPBM specimens is thus important. The morphology of this species is very different from all congeners. Its carapace is distinctively more rounded; the rostrum very short with two subparallel sharp spines; the plates are small, rounded and raised; and, most significantly, the two plates situated below the cardiac plate are uniquely structured.