Revision of the intertidal and semiterrestrial crab genera Chiromantes Gistel, 1848, and Pseudosesarma Serène & Soh, 1970 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), using morphology and molecular phylogenetics, with the establishment of nine new genera and two new species
Author
Schubart, Christoph D.
Zoology & Evolution, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
christoph.schubart@ur.de
Author
Ng, Peter K. L.
Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 2 Conservatory Drive, Singapore 117377, Republic of Singapore
peterng@nus.edu.sg
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Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2020
2020-12-23
68
891
994
journal article
55667
10.26107/RBZ-2020-0097
6cb155ce-8b9f-48ce-8e6c-b0dc00f8b1cc
2345-7600
5351295
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Migmarma lorentzi
,
new species
(
Figs. 50–52
)
Material examined
.
Holotype
:
male
(15.8 × 14.0 mm) (
NMBA 625IIa
),
Noord River
(
= present day Lorentz River
),
New Guinea
, ca.
4°15′S
138°40′E
, coll.
Lorentz Expedition
1909 (donated Zoological Museum Amsterdam, 1920).
Paratype
:
1 female
(13.4 ×
11.8 mm
) (
NMBA 625
IIa), same data as holotype
.
Diagnosis
. Carapace squarish, slightly longer than wide; dorsal carapace surface smooth, glabrous; epibranchial tooth distinct, separated by deep notch; posterolateral margins subparallel; outer surface of chela gently rugose, smooth flattened granules, outer surface gently convex, not flat, ventral margin of palm gently concave; suture between male thoracic sternites 3 and 4 distinct; ambulatory merus short, broad; male pleon subrectangular, telson rounded, slightly sunken into distal margin of somite 6; G1 slender, gently curved, chitinous distal part long, tapering, relatively slender, subspatuliform, tip appears bifurcated.
Etymology
. The species is named after Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz, the Dutch explorer for whom its
type
locality river is also named.
Remarks
. In having the male telson only slightly sunken into somite 6,
Migmarma lorentzi
,
new species
, superficially resembles species of
Bresedium
, notably
B. laevimanum
, but can easily be separated by the male telson being rounded and the pleonal somite 6 less broad (
Fig. 50E
) (versus telson more elongate and somite 6 is wider and more rectangular in shape in
B. laevimanum
;
Figs. 31F–H
,
42A
); and the G1 is also proportionately stouter and the tip of the chitinous distal part is tapering and sharp (
Figs. 50F–K
,
51A–E
) (versus G1 proportionately more slender and the tip of the chitinous distal part is flared in
B. laevimanum
;
Fig. 42B–E
).