On the taxonomic status and biogeography of the Isolapotamidae Bott, 1970 (Decapoda, Brachyura)
Author
Brandis, Dirk
text
Journal of Natural History
2002
2002-07-31
36
11
1291
1339
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930110051743
journal article
10.1080/00222930110051743
1464-5262
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Demanietta manii
(Rathbun, 1904)
(gure 7a–c)
Potamon (Potamon) manii
Rathbun, 1904: 276
, gure 15, pl. 11, gure 6.
Potamiscus (Demanietta) tenasserimensis manii
: Bott, 1966: 489
, gure 24, pl. 19, gure 7.
Ranguna (Demanietta) tenasserimensis manii
: Bott, 1970b: 174
, pl. 39, gure 48; pl. 49, gure 44.
Demanietta manii
: Yeo
et al
., 1999: 533
, gures 1, 2A–F, 6A, B, 8A, 9A.
HOLOTYPE
. One (
MNHN 3602-82
)
Thailand
,
Bangkok
, leg.
Harmand.
Diagnosis.
Carapace appearing punctuated, slightly rounded; anterolateral margins well developed, cervical grooves deep, leading to lateral ends of postorbital margins. Postorbital margins sharp; without any separation, nearly connected with postfronta l lobes. Pleon elongately triangular, lateral margins straight. First gonopod elongated, terminal joint slightly curved outwards, ending in sharp tip, overlapping margin projecting, projecting margin rounded, reaching lateral margin of terminal joint proximally; exible zone distinctly elongated, slightly bilobed.
Distribution.
Presently known only from
type
locality.
Type locality
.
Bangkok
.
Measurements.
48.2: 35.2: 20.6: 7.4 (
holotype
).
Remarks.
Recently many species closely related to
D. manii
have been described by Yeo
et al
. (1999), all showing a similar gonopod morphology. According to Yeo
et al
. (1999)
D. manii
is presently only known from
Bangkok
. As the authors mention it is very doubtful that this specimen really was collected in the vicinity of
Bangkok
. Due to the high similarity between
D. manii
and the new species described by Yeo
et al
. (1999) and the unclear
type
locality of
D. manii
the status of this species remains unclear and thus will not be discussed in the present paper.