New western Pacific records of Homolidae De Haan, 1839, with descriptions of new species of Homolochunia Doflein, 1904, and Latreillopsis Henderson, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)
Author
Forges, Bertrand Richer De
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, BPA 5, Nouméa cedex, New Caledonia. E-mail: richer @ noumea. ird. nc Tropical Marine Science Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore. E-mail: peterng @ nus. edu. sg
Author
Ng, Peter K. L.
text
Zootaxa
2008
2008-12-19
1967
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35
journal article
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Homolochunia kullar
Griffin & Brown, 1976
(
Figs. 4B
,
5C
,
6B
)
Homolochunia kullar
Griffin & Brown, 1976: 249
, figs. 1–3. —
Guinot & Richer de Forges 1995: 432
, figs. 49A–B, 50 a–b, 51. —
Ng et al. 2008: 40
.
Material examined
.
New Caledonia
: CONCALIS cruise, stn. CP 3013,
18°48.50’S
163°11.36’E
,
669–683 m
,
8 May 2008
:
2 males
(30.1 x
21.5 mm
, 29.8 x
20.8 mm
) (
ZRC 2008.0980
)
.
FIGURE 4.
Homolochunia
species
, general views. A,
H. valdiviae
, male (24.6 x 18.4 mm) (MNHN-B22486), Indonesia, Mollucas; B,
H. kullar
,
male (29.8 x 20.8 mm) (ZRC 2008.0980), New Caledonia; C,
H. gadaletae
,
ovigerous female (36.4 x 25.5 mm) (ZRC 1998.475), Taiwan; D,
H. menezi
n. sp.
, male holotype (17.4 x 12.3 mm) (MNHN-B31283), Solomon Islands.
Remarks
.
Griffin & Brown (1976)
first described the species from
Australia
. This species has a very characteristic pseudo-chela on the P5, which closely resembles a real chela (
Fig. 6B
) (see also
Guinot & Richer de Forges 1995: 527
). Known only from the Coral and Tasman seas, from
500 to
825 m
.