A collection of crabs (Crustacea, Brachyura) from the southwestern coast of India, with a discussion of the systematic position of Nectopanope Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891 (Euryplacidae)
Author
Ng, Peter K. L.
Author
Priyaja, P.
Author
Kumar, A. Biju
Author
Devi, S. Suvarna
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ZooKeys
2019
818
1
24
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.818.32108
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.818.32108
1313-2970-818-1
E362680898A040319A27579D902CFE18
Rhinolambrus contrarius (Herbst, 1804)
Fig. 6B
Material examined.
1 young female (10.5
x
10.0 mm), 3 juveniles (largest 6.8
x
6.8 mm),
7°48.004'N
,
77°27.754'E
, 50 m.
Remarks
.
Herbst (1804
: 9) described this species from material from somewhere in the "East Indies" and as far as is known, the type is lost (
Sakai 1999
). This is the type species of
Rhinolambrus
A. Milne-Edwards, 1878. The species has a wide
Indo-West
Pacific distribution (see
Flipse 1930
;
Sakai 1976
); and in India has been reported from various parts of Tamil Nadu and Andamans (
Henderson 1893
;
Jeyabaskaran et al. 2000
;
Kathirvel and Gokul 2010
;
Dev Roy and Nandi 2012
;
Vidhya et al. 2017
).
The present materials are all juveniles, with none of the gonopod structures of the males developed even though the chelipeds are elongated. The pronounced
"neck-like"
constriction in adults of this species has still not developed (Fig. 6B).