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
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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
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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
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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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Euryxanthops flexidentatus
Garth and Kim, 1983
[Jn: Usuiro-hira-ougigani]
(
Fig. 2D
)
Material examined.
Kaikata Seamount—
486 m
, 1 ♂ (NSMT-Cr 31519; cb 22.3×cl
16.4 mm
), 1 ♀ (NSMT-Cr 31520; cb 17.5×cl
12.5 mm
),
15-VII-1991
,
Shinkai
2000
, #558, JAMSTEC leg.
Nikko Seamount—
460 m
, 1♂ (NSMT-Cr 31521; cb 28.3×cl
19.9 mm
),
19-IX-1992
,
Shinkai
6500
, #144, JAMSTEC leg.
Remarks
. This species, one of six congeners of the genus
Euryxanthops
Garth and Kim, 1983
, was originally described on the basis of a single male specimen from off northwestern Mindanao, the
Philippines
(
Garth and Kim, 1983
, p. 678, fig. 3). Recently, additional specimens were recorded and remarked on the variations by
Davie (1997)
,
Ng and McLay (2007)
,
Kuo
et al.
(2015)
,
Mendoza
et al.
(2021)
, and
Sato and Aiba (2022)
. This species is characteristic in the thin and weakly upturned anterolateral margins of the carapace, with keys prepared by
Davie (1997)
and
Ng and McLay (2007)
. In these keys, the shape of the first anterolateral tooth is considered as the important criterion to distinguish the species, but
Mendoza
et al.
(2021)
showed that the original illustrations are not always accurate in the proportion and first anterolateral tooth of the carapace, and that the G1 of the
holotype
is damaged at its tip. The G
1 in
the present specimens (NSMT-Cr 31519, 31521) agrees well with the figure of
Kuo
et al.
(2015
, fig. 2), having several long hairs at the subterminal part. Although, in the published photographs and line drawings, the carapace dorsal areolation is not always clearly shown, but it is remarked at present in all the present specimens that a deep, strongly curved gutter was engraved at each side of the transverse depression between the median gastric and cardiac regions.
Distribution.
Known from the
Philippines
(
type
locality, northern Mindanao,
327.6 m
), southern
Taiwan
(
265–300 m
),
Indonesia
(Sunda Strait and southwestern
Java
,
234–281 m
), and
Japan
(Off
Miyazaki Prefecture
, Kyushu,
350 m
). As
Sato and Aiba (2022)
already mentioned,
Euryxanthops
sp.
from Sagami Bay,
220–280 m
, recorded by
Ikeda (1998
, fig. 10) is referred to this species.
Xanthidae
gen. et sp. recorded by
Fujikura
et al.
(2008
, fig. 11.35) from Kaikata, Nikko, Daini-Kasuga, and Daikoku seamounts, Ogasawara-Mariana Arc,
400–500 m
, is also probably referred to this species.