On a collection of Polychelidae from Papua New Guinea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Polychelida)
Author
Galil, Bella S.
National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, P. O. B. 8030, Haifa 31080 (Israel) bella @ ocean. org. il
bella@ocean.org.il
text
Zoosystema
2013
2013-12-27
35
4
495
502
http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2013n4a4
journal article
10.5252/z2013n4a4
1638-9387
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Polycheles typhlops
Heller, 1862
(
Fig. 1B
)
Polycheles typhlops
Heller, 1862: 392
, pl. 1, figs 1-6 (
type
locality:off Sicily). —
Galil 2000: 354
, fig. 30. —
Ahyong & Chan 2004: 179
, figs 1D-F, 4H, 5A, B; 2008: 64, fig 1C. —
Ahyong & Galil 2006: 765
. —
Boyko 2006: 44
. —
Poore
et al.
2008: 91
. —
Ahyong 2009: 383
. —
Chan 2010: 162
.
Pentacheles agassizii
A. Milne-Edwards, 1880: 65
(
type
locality: off
Grenada
).
Polycheles doderleini
Riggio, 1885: 103
, pl. 3, figs 1-5 (
type
locality: Palermo).
Pentacheles hextii
Alcock, 1894: 237
(
type
locality: Andaman Sea).
Polycheles intermedius
Balss, 1914: 599
(
type
locality: between
Iceland
and the
Hebrides
).
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — BIOPAPUA, Huon
Gulf
, Stn CP 3633,
06°54’S
,
147°05’E
,
395-406 m
,
22.VIII.2010
,
1 ♂
cl 39.7 mm (MNHN-IU-2011-1486). — Huon
Gulf
, Stn CP 3635,
07°29’S
,
147°33’E
,
280-302 m
,
23.VIII.2010
,
2 ♂♂
cl 44.8, 34.8 mm,
1 ♀
cl 49.9 mm (MNHN- IU-2011-1496). — Huon
Gulf
, Stn CP 3637,
07°25’S
,
147°30’E
,
608-615 m
,
23.VIII.2010
,
1 ♀
cl 27.9 mm,
2 juveniles
(MNHN-IU-2013-7010). — Kimbe Bay, Stn CP 3679,
05°21’S
,
150°45’E
,
490-715 m
,
25.IX.2010
,
1 ♂
cl 21.6 mm (MNHN-IU-2013-7001). —
Madang
, Stn CP 3707,
04°59’S
,
145°50’E
,
460-466 m
,
2.X.2010
,
1 ♂
cl 44.1 mm,
1 ♀
cl 56.4 mm (MNHN- IU-2011-2715). — Astrolabe Bay, Stn CP 3711,
05°23’S
,
145°48’E
,
434-447 m
,
5.X.2010
,
1 ♂
cl 23.0 mm,
1 ♀
cl 41.2 mm (MNHN-IU-2011-2052). — Mambare Bay, Stn CP 3729,
07°52’S
,
148°03’E
,
575-655 m
,
8.X.2010
,
1 ♀
cl 21.1 mm (MNHN-IU-2013-7008). — Jacquinot Bay, Stn CP 3774,
05°35’S
,
151°35’E
,
470-680 m
,
16.X.2010
,
1♂
cl 42.5 mm (MNHN-IU-2011-2803).
DISTRIBUTION. — Widespread throughout the Indo-West Pacific and both sides of the Atlantic, known from the
Solomon Islands
and
Fiji
;
77-2055 m
(
Galil 2000
;
Ahyong & Galil 2006
); new record for
PNG
.
REMARKS As in specimens from
Solomon Islands
and
Fiji
(
Ahyong & Galil 2006
), the present specimens of
P. typhlops
possess heavily granulated abdominal tergites.