Deep-sea spider crabs of the family Epialtidae MacLeay, 1838, from Papua New Guinea, with a redefinition of Tunepugettia Ng, Komai & Sato, 2017, and descriptions of two new genera (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea)
Author
Lee, Bee Yan
Author
Forges, Bertrand Richer De
Author
Ng, Peter K. L.
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-06-18
4619
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4619.1.1
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Laubierinia carinata
(Griffin & Tranter, 1986)
(
Fig. 1B
)
Rochinia carinata
Griffin & Tranter, 1986: 175
(key), 178, figs.
56, 64e
, f, pl. 12 (
type
locality Kai Islands,
Indonesia
).
Rochinia
carinata—
Ng & Richer de Forges 2007: 62
(table).—
Ng
et al
. 2008: 105
(list).—
Richer de Forges & Poore 2008: 66
, fig. 1d.
Laubierinia
carinata—
Richer de Forges & Ng 2009a: 15
, 16, figs. 6E, F, 9A–F, 11D [new combination].
Material examined.
Papua New Guinea
:
1 male
(24.7 × 16.0 mm) (MNHN-IU-2014-8128) [photographed], stn CP4445,
New Ireland
,
02°15’S
150°17’E
,
342–380 m
, coll. KAVIENG 2014,
1 September 2014
.—
1 ovigerous female (17.4 ×
11.6 mm
) (MNHN-IU-2014-8129) [photographed], stn CP4445,
New Ireland
,
02°15’S
150°17’E
,
342–380 m
, coll. KAVIENG 2014,
1 September 2014
.
Remarks.
The specimens of
Laubierinia carinata
collected in the Bismarck Sea are larger than in earlier reported series (cf.
Richer de Forges & Poore 2008
;
Richer de Forges & Ng 2009a
) but otherwise agree well with published material from the
Solomon Islands
and
Vanuatu
. The known distribution of
L
.
carinata
includes
Indonesia
, northwestern
Australia
,
Papua New Guinea
, Solomon Island,
Vanuatu
, and
New Caledonia
.
The live coloration of the
Papua New Guinea
specimens is an orange carapace with white gastric, cardiac and branchial plates, orange and white hepatic plates, and orange for the other large granules on the carapace (
Fig. 1B
).