Crabs of the Families Tetraliidae, Trapeziidae and Xanthidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) new to the Ogasawara Islands, Japan
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Alrasheedi, Sami M
Author
Alrashdi, Mousa N
Author
Alhumaidan, Lama S
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Alkhdairi, Ahmad
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Alzweihary, Ali M
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Alhussaini, Omar M
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Alharbi, Lama S
Author
Albalawi, Amirah N
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Almutairi, Turki F
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Alharbi, Osama A G
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Bashal, Afaf A M
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Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology
2024
2024-02-22
50
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_1222_23
journal article
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10.50826/bnmnszool.50.1_1
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Garthiella aberrans
(
Rathbun, 1906
)
[New Jn: Gahsu-toge-ougigani]
(
Fig. 2F
)
Material examined
.
Haha-jima Is.
—
Mukohjima I.
, diving site
Maguro-ana
(
26°36′37″N
,
142°07′46″E
), 1 young ♀ (NSMT-Cr 31522; cb 7.5×cl
5.2 mm
),
5-VII-2015
,
H. Komatsu
leg.
;
Mei-jima
I., west coast (
26°34′08″N
,
142°13′40″E
),
10m
, 2♀♀ (NSMT-Cr 31523; cb 8.2×cl
5.6 mm
, cb 10.3×cl
6.4 mm
),
11-VII-2016
,
H. Komatsu
leg.
;
Hira-shima I.
, diving site
Sasao-ne
(
26°35′07″N
,
142°09′45″E
), 1 ♀ (NSMT-Cr 31524; cb 8.5×cl
5.6 mm
),
3-VII-2015
,
H. Komatsu
leg.
;
Imoto-jima I.
, diving site
Blue
ribbon
(
26°34′03″N
,
142°12′48″E
),
15–17 m
,
1 juv.
(NSMT-Cr 31525; cb 4.8×cl
3.6 mm
),
11-VII-2016
,
H. Komatsu
leg.
;
Haha-jima I.
, diving site
Uentoro
(
26°39′28″N
,
142°10′35″E
),
12–20 m
,1 ♀ (cb 7.8×cl
5.7 mm
),
1 juv.
(cb 3.5×cb
4.9 mm
), NSMT-Cr 31526,
12-VII-2016
,
H. Komatsu
leg.
Remarks
. The carapace dorsal areolation and anterolateral armature of this species are most close to those of
Epiactaea nodulosa
(White, 1847)
(cf.
Serène, 1984
) and generally to some species of the genera
Actaea
and
Pilodius
. The peculiarity of the genus
Garthiella
erected by
Titgen (1986)
to accommodate
Chlorodopsis aberrans
Rathbun, 1906
, has been already noticed and named this species as
aberrans
by
Rathbun (1906)
. It is sure that the fingers of both chelae are sharply pointed, differing from the hollowed tips in the species of the related genera.
Rathbun (1906)
,
Edmondson (1962)
, and
Serène and Nguyen (1959)
dealt with this species with figures as
Chlorodopsis aberrans
,
Serène (1984)
took this species in the key to the genus
Pilodius
, and
Mendoza and Manuel-Santos (2012)
explained and illustrated in detail as
Garthiera
based on the
holotype
from northwestern Hawaiian Islands and several additional specimens from
French Polynesia
. The specimens from the Ogasawara Islands agree well with the figures and photographs in the literature, having the carapace and chelipeds roughened with sharp tubercles, the carapace anterolateral margin armed with four sharp spiniform teeth weakly covered forwards, and the anterior margins of the ambulatory segments fringed with a line of the equidistant spiniform teeth.
The second species of the genus
Garthella
,
G. sikatuna
reported by
Mendoza and Manuel-Santos (2012)
, from the
Philippines
, is distinguished from
G. aberrans
most readily by the less coarse granulation of the carapace and chelipeds among the differences mentioned in the original paper.
Distribution
. Hitherto been known from the Hawaiian Islands and
French Polynesia
. This species is new to the carcinological fauna of Japanese waters.