New western Pacific records of Homolidae De Haan, 1839, with descriptions of new species of Homolochunia Doflein, 1904, and Latreillopsis Henderson, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
Author
Forges, Bertrand Richer De
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, BPA 5, Nouméa cedex, New Caledonia. E-mail: richer @ noumea. ird. nc Tropical Marine Science Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore. E-mail: peterng @ nus. edu. sg
Author
Ng, Peter K. L.
text
Zootaxa
2008
2008-12-19
1967
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35
journal article
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Latreillopsis tetraspinosa
Dai & Chen, 1980
Latreillopsis tetraspinosa
Dai & Chen, 1980: 39
, figs. 1–5. — For a complete synonymy prior to 1995, see
Guinot & Richer de Forges 1995: 404
, fig. 39a–f, 42C–D, 43D. —
Takeda & Manuel-Santos 2007: 88
, fig. 4A. —
Richer de Forges & Ng 2007: 35
, fig. 1D. —
Ng et al. 2008: 40
.
Material examined
.
Solomon Islands
: SALOMONBOA, stn. CP 2804,
09°14.16’S
161°19.85’E
,
150–175 m
,
17 September 2007
:
1 male
(6.8 x
4.7 mm
) (
MNHN-B31305
)
.
Remarks
. This species, described from the South
China
Sea (
Dai & Chen 1980
) was subsequently recorded from
Japan
, the
Philippines
and
Indonesia
(
Guinot & Richer de Forges 1995
). The present record from the Solomons extends its distribution.
Richer de Forges & Ng (2007: 31
,
Fig. 1D
) provided a colour photograph of
L. tetraspinosa
showing a pattern very different from that of
L. bispinosa
or
L. marivenae
Richer de Forges & Ng 2007
.