Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Sea off East and Southeast Asia Collected by the RV Hakuhō Maru (KH- 72 - 1 Cruise) 2. Timor Sea
Author
Islam, Atikul
Author
Banerjee, Abhishek
Author
Wati, Sisca Meida
Author
Banerjee, Sumita
Author
Shrivastava, Deepti
Author
Srivastava, Kumar Chandan
text
Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology
2022
2022-02-22
48
1
5
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_1287_23
journal article
299034
10.50826/bnmnszool.48.1_5
75026286-ffe2-4545-be4b-6212ec4f0964
2434-091X
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Cyrtomaia suhmii
Miers, 1886
(
Fig. 5B
)
Material examined.
RV
Hakuhō Maru
KH-72-1 cruise, sta. 26 (Timor Sea;
09°27.0′S
,
127°58.6′E
–09°285.0′S,
127°56.1′E
,
610–690 m
depth),
3 m
beam trawl;
June 19, 1972
; 1 ♂ with epicaridean parasites in both branchial chambers (NSMT-Cr 29259: CB
31.6 mm
excluding branchial spines, CL
26.2 mm
excluding pseudorostral spines), 1 ♂ with epicaridean parasite in right branchial chamber (NSMT-Cr 29260: CB
32.7 mm
, CL 28.0 mm).
Fig. 5. A:
Pleistacantha griffini
Ahyong and Lee
, male (NSMT-Cr 29258: CB 6.7 mm×CL 10.2mm excluding pseudorostral spines) from sta. 28 (Timor Sea, 295–296 m depth). B:
Cyrtomaia suhmi
Miers
, male infected by epicaridean parasites in both branchial chambers (NSMT-Cr 29259: CB 31.6mm excluding branchial spines×CL 26.2 mm excluding pseudorostral spines) from sta. 26 (Timor Sea, 610–690 m depth). C–D:
Dorhynchus rostratus
(Sakai)
, female (NSMT-Cr 29261: CB 15.2mm×CL 15.0mm excluding pseudorostral spines) from sta. 26 (Timor Sea, 610–690 m depth). E:
Platymaia fimbriata
Rathbun
, male (NSMT-Cr 29263: CB 14.0mm×CL 12.6mm excluding pseudorostral spines) from sta. 26 (Timor Sea, 610–690 m depth). F:
Platymaia wyvillethomsoni
Miers
, ovigerous female (NSMT-Cr 29264: CB 39.5 mm excluding branchial spines×CL 36.7mm excluding pseudorostral spines) from sta. 28 (Timor Sea, 295–296 m depth).
Remarks.
Both of the specimens examined are infected by epicaridean parasites; in the smaller male (NSMT-Cr 29259:
Fig. 5B
), the branchial chambers of both sides are heavily deformed, and in another, slightly larger male (NSMT-Cr 29160), the right branchial chamber is also strongly bulged.
Takeda
et al.
(2021)
recorded two species of
Cyrtomaia
,
C. horrida
Rathbun, 1916
from the
Sulu
Sea and
C. largoi
Richer de Forges and Ng, 2007
from the Sibutu Passage, with some taxonomic comments. This species is distinctly different from them in having long protogastric spines.
Richer de Forges and Guinot (1988)
discussed the differences between the new species,
C. coriolisi
, and
C. suhmii
Miers, 1886
, and indicated that there is only a vestigial intercalated granule instead of spinule on the supraorbital border in
C. coriolisi
. The morphological features other than the deformity of the branchial chambers essentially agree with the descriptions and illustrations by
Griffin and Tranter (1986a)
,
Guinot and Richer de Forges (1985)
, Richer de Forges and Guinot (1990),
Promdam (2011)
, and
Padate
et al.
(2021)
.
Distribution
. Indo-West Pacific, from
Japan
to
Australia
and
India
through the
Philippines
and
Indonesia
,
488–1125 m
depth.
Davie (2002)
recorded this species in the Zoological Catalogue of
Australia
based on the records by
Griffin and Brown (1976)
,
Griffin and Tranter (1986a)
, and
Davie and Short (1989)
.