New records of the crangonid shrimp genus Metacrangon Zarenkov, 1965 (Decapoda: Caridea), from the south of Java, eastern Indian Ocean, with description of a new species
Author
Komai, Tomoyuki
Author
Chan, Tin-Yam
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2020
2020-04-30
68
326
333
journal article
10.26107/RBZ-2020-0026
2345-7600
4577277
8F396044-E58D-4582-9A50-262AE353B9FD
Metacrangon clevai
Komai, 2012
(
Figs. 3
,
4B
)
Metacrangon clevai
Komai, 2012: 34
, figs. 16–18, 43 (
type
locality:
Solomon Islands
,
1,001–1,012 m
).
Material examined.
1 female
(cl
7.4 mm
), SJADES, stn DW 32, S of
Java
,
07°42.58′S
,
107°34.54′E
to
07°42.56′S
,
107°35.93′E
, 977–
805 m
,
29 March 2018
, dredge,
ZRC 2019.1872
.
Colouration in life.
Body generally maroon; cornea reflective; antennular and antennal peduncles also brownish; maxilliped 3 antepenultimate article brownish, distal two articles paler; pereopod 1 generally pale brown, darker at subdistal part of palm; pereopods 2–5 generally semitransparent, with tinge of brown on ischium and merus of pereopod 4. Pleopods also semitransparent with tinge of brown on protopods.
Distribution.
Previously only known from the
Solomon Islands
and
Vanuatu
, at depths of
777–1,040 m
. Newly recorded from south of
Java
,
Indonesia
, at depths of
805–
977 m
.
Remarks.
The present specimen from the south of
Java
generally agrees with the description of
Metacrangon clevai
in the following diagnostic features (see
Komai, 2012
): (1) the carapace has two middorsal spines, the anterior one located in an epigastric position; (2) there are no submedian spines on the gastric region of the carapace; and (3) the pleomeres 2–4 possess an obsolescent middorsal carina. Only minor differences are observed between this
Java
specimen and the
type
material: (1) the anterior middorsal spine on the carapace is relatively longer and narrower in the present specimen than in the
type
specimens (
Fig. 3A
;
Komai, 2012
: figs. 16B, 18A); and (2) the posterior middorsal spine arises slightly anterior to the midlength in the newly collected specimen (
Fig. 3A
), whereas in the
type
specimens, it rises at the midlength or slightly posterior to it (
Komai, 2012
: figs. 16B, 18A).