A new genus and species of large-bodied caridean shrimp from the Crozet Islands, Southern Ocean (Crustacea, Decapoda, Lipkiidae) with a checklist of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic shrimps
Author
D'Acoz, Cédric D'Udekem
Author
Degrave, Sammy
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-03-09
4392
2
201
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journal article
30567
10.11646/zootaxa.4392.2.1
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1175-5326
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Lipkius holthuisi
Yaldwyn, 1960
Lipkius holthuisi
Yaldwyn, 1960: 16
, figs 1–16;
Thompson, 1966
: 129
, 130, 136, 138;
Hanamura 1989
: 62
, fig. 8;
Kensley
et al.
1987
: 304
;
Webber
et al.
1990
: 36
, unnumbered fig.;
Holthuis 1993
: 79
, fig. 69;
Pobert
et al.
1997
: 32
(new record); Davie 2002: 272, unnumbered fig. on p. 271;
Poore 2004
: 73
, fig. 17a; Ahyong
et al.
2007, 184, unnumbered fig. and colour photograph; Ahyong
et al.
2011: 211, unnumbered fig. and colour photograph; Yaldwyn & Webber 2011: 188 (
ubi syn
.), fig. 4; Burukovsky 2012: 19, 31, fig. 4; Baeza
et al.
2014: 437.
Material
examined.
3 specimens
,
Chatham Rise
,
New Zealand
, sta.
TAN0905
/99,
44.1396667°S
174.7196667°W
to
44.1423333°S
174.7260000°W
,
641–758 m
,
26 June 2009
, NIWA 53769;
2 spec., same data,
OUMNH
.ZC.2018-01-001; 7 spec.,
Chatham Rise
,
New Zealand
, sta.
TAN0905
/113,
44.1495000°S
174.7568333°W
to
44.1503333°S
174.76050007°W
,
519–609 m
,
27 June 2009
, NIWA 70978;
4 spec., same data,
OUMNH
.ZC.2018-01-002.
Size.
Maximum carapace length:
30.5 mm
(
Hanamura 1989
).
Distribution.
New Zealand
,
Chatham Islands
(Yaldwyn 1960),
SE
Australia
(
Kensley
et al.
1987
),
Tasmania
(
Hanamura 1989
); also found in the sub-Antarctic Region: Campbell Plateau and between the Bounty and Antipodes Islands (
Webber
et al.
1990
); between
366 m
[200 fathoms] (Yaldwyn 1960) and
1700 m
(
Poore 2004
). Davie (2002) considers that the species is mesopelagic. However, it seems more likely that it is benthic or demersal, as
Webber
et al.
(1990)
stated that it is commercially fished for with trawls.
Remarks.
Differences can be observed between various illustrations of
Lipkius holthuisi
in literature. These primarily concern the length and robustness of the rostrum, the presence or the absence of a tooth on the posterior margin of the pleuron of pleonite 5, and the length of the dactylus of pereiopods 3–5. Part of these differences might be related to size or sexual differences, with the original description based on immature individuals. However, there is some doubt that all the specimens recorded in literature are indeed conspecific. With its shorter rostrum and very short dactyli on the walking pereiopods, the Australian specimen illustrated by
Poore (2004)
looks rather different from those from
New Zealand
illustrated by Yaldwyn (1960) and Ahyong
et al.
(2007).