Decapod Crustacea collected by the NORFANZ Expedition: Galatheidae and Polychelidae Author Ahyong, Shane T. text Zootaxa 2007 1593 1 54 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.178624 7466bbb6-f889-4e40-b22d-e3aee96f9acb 1175-5326 178624 Galathea tanegashimae Baba, 1969 ( Fig. 7 ) Galathea tanegashimae Baba, 1969 : 16 –18, fig. 4 [ type locality: off Nishino-omote, Tanegashima Island , Southern Kyushu, Japan ]. — Tirmizi & Javed 1993 : 42 , 65–66, figs. 17, 28. Material examined. Lord Howe Rise: NIWA 28076, 1 female ( 3.6 mm ), S of Ball’s Pyramid, 31°52.44’S , 159°14.43’E , 72–82 m , TAN0308/67 #58, 23 May 2003 . Remarks. The single specimen from off Ball’s Pyramid agrees extremely well with Baba’s (1969) account of the holotype of G. tanegashimae . Galathea tanegashimae has been recorded from off Somalia , the Andaman Sea and Japan ( Baba 1969 ; Tirmizi & Javed 1993 ) so the present specimen represents the first record from the southwestern Pacific. Galathea tanegashimae closely resembles G. spinosorostris Dana, 1852 , but differs by the absence of dorsal hepatic spines on the carapace. Although Baba (1990) proposed the synonymy of G. spinosorostris and G. tanegashimae , Baba (2005) excluded the latter from the synonymy of the former. Distribution. Somalia , Andaman Sea, Japan , and for the first time from the southwestern Pacific; between 15–30 and 72–82 m depth ( Baba 1969; present study ).