A Review Of The Sentinel And Allied Crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae), With Particular Reference To The Genus Macrophthalmus
Author
Barnes, R. S. K.
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2010
2010-02-28
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.4508304
2345-7600
4508304
Macrophthalmus
(
Chaenostoma)
Stimpson, 1858
(
Fig. 1A
)
Small, carapace breadth <
15 mm
; ocular peduncles short and stout, not projecting beyond lateral carapace margins, subequal in length to breadth of front or shorter; front broad, not constricted between bases of ocular peduncles, where its breadth is 20–30% the distance between external orbital angles; ischium of external maxilliped some 1.25 times length of merus; carapace with breadth <1.3 times length, with lateral margins parallel, with broad-based subrectangular anterolateral teeth, without conspicuous aggregations of granules into rows or clumps on branchial regions; central region of posterior border of epistome straight; males without stridulatory apparatus; fingers of male chela short with index straight or slightly downflexed, and with a differentiated tooth only on dactylus. Intertidal, but unusually for
Macrophthalmus
, mainly associated with rocky or stony habitats.
Two species are included in
Chaenostoma
(=
Mopsocarcinus
Barnes, 1967
):
M. boscii
Audouin, 1825
(
type
species) and
M. punctulatus
Miers, 1884
. This subgenus was suggested by
Barnes (1967)
to approximate the form of the ancestral
Macrophthalmus
, but the molecular sequence analysis of Kitaura, Nishida & Wada (2006) places it as a highly derived form.