Leucosiid crabs from Papua New Guinea, with descriptions of eight new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
Author
Galil, Bella S.
Author
Ng, Peter K. L.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4027
4
451
486
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4027.4.1
7e77f875-e8de-478e-a96b-19d376e00e3a
1175-5326
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Myra curtimana
Galil, 2001
(
Fig. 3
F)
Material examined
. 1 immature specimen (
6.6 mm
) (MNHN-IU-2013-462), stn PD10, west Kranket I.,
05°11.7'S
145°48.8'E
,
16–28 m
, 9–
10.11.2012
; 1 immature female (
6.7 mm
) (MNHN-IU-2013-620), stn PD22, S Sek I.,
05°06.3'S
145°49.2'E
,
12–20 m
, 14–
15.11.2012
; 1 immature specimen (
9.3 mm
) (MNHN-IU-2013-17891), stn PS25, Barag I., outer slope,
05°01,2'S
145°48,0'E
,
24.11.2012
; 1 immature female (
9.4 mm
) (MNHN-IU-2013- 1226), stn PD74, Yomba I. Beach,
05°14.7'S
145°47.4'E
,
1–3 m
,
7.12.2012
.
Colour in life
. Carapace bone-coloured, mottled with irregular brown patches and spots, front mauve, pale crescent on intestinal region, median posterior spine white. Cheliped merus bone-coloured with broad brown bands medially and distally, 2 dark dots between bands; dark bands proximally and distally on palms; fingers mottled brown. Ambulatory legs with brown bands distally on meri, proximally on carpi, propodi (
Fig. 3
F).
Geographical distribution
.
Philippines
,
Indonesia
,
Australia
(Western
Australia
),
Vanuatu
,
New Caledonia
,
Fiji
,
1–120 m
(
Galil 2001b
;
Galil & Ng 2010
). New record for
Papua New Guinea
.