New species and new records of deepwater munidid squat lobsters from north-western Australia: Onconida, Bathymunida, Crosnierita, Plesionida and Torbenella
Author
Ahyong, Shane T.
Author
Taylor, Joanne
Author
Mccallum, Anna W.
text
Zootaxa
2013
3734
1
23
37
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3734.1.3
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1175-5326
285171
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Bathymunida dissimilis
Baba
& de Saint Laurent, 1996
(
Fig. 1
B–C)
Bathymunida dissimilis
Baba
& de Saint Laurent, 1996: 451, fig. 9 [
type
locality:
Futuna
Island
,
100–110 m
].—Baba 2005: 239.—Baba
et al.
2008: 57.
Material examined
. NMV
J56002
,
3 males
(A: cl
5.4 mm
, pcl
4.7 mm
; B: cl
4.7 mm
, pcl 4.0 mm; C: cl
5.4 mm
, pcl
4.6 mm
), Kulumburu L29 transect, 13°27.390–27.654'S, 124°00.660–00.822'E,
105–107 m
, beam trawl, SS05/ 2007/172 (acq. 037), 0
5 Jul 2007
.
Colour in life
(
Fig. 1
B–C). Cephalothorax and most of abdomen mottled white-cream and pale red-brown; cervical groove with one blue spot on each side. Abdominal somite 6 and tail-fan translucent white. Walking legs with diffuse, translucent, white and reddish bands on meri, propodi and dactyli. Chelipeds with broad white and reddish bands.
Remarks
. The Western Australian specimens agree well in most respects with the
type
description of
B. dissimilis
(see Baba & de Saint Laurent 1996), differing in having more distinct striae on the cardiac rise and on abdominal somites 2–4.
Distribution
.
Futuna
Island
(south-western Pacific) and now from Western
Australia
;
105–
110 m
.