Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Seas of East and Southeast Asia Collected by the RV Hakuhō Maru (KH- 72 - 1 Cruise) 4. South China Sea
Author
Arzivian, Arteen
Author
Alrubaie, Ahmad
Author
Yang, Jessica
Author
Lin, Huiyu
Author
Zhang, Eva
Author
Leong, Rupert
text
Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology
2022
2022-11-22
48
4
147
191
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000539401
journal article
10.50826/bnmnszool.48.4_147
2434-091X
12760084
Eumedonus niger
H.
Milne Edwards, 1834
(
Fig. 11C
)
Material examined.
RV
Hakuhō Maru
KH-72-1 cruise, sta. 50, 1Ə (CB 7.5×CL
7.7 mm
), NSMT-Cr 30935.
Remarks.
The male examined after ecdysis is wholly semitransparent due to decalcification (
Fig. 11C
), agreeing well with the detailed description, photographs and figures by
Chia and Ng (2000)
who examined the type specimens and synonymized
Gonatonotus crassimanus
Haswell, 1880
and
Eumedonus villosus
Rathbun, 1918
with this species. The front may be somewhat variable individually in the depth and width of the median incision, with V-shaped notch in this specimen just like the
holotype
represented by
Chia and Ng (2000
: fig. 1).
Distribution.
Known from
Japan
, the East
China
Sea, the
Philippines
, and eastern and western Australia,
40–138 m
depth.