The Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) of the Red Sea with description of a new species of Petrolisthes
Author
Werding, Bernd
Author
Hiller, Alexandra
text
Zootaxa
2007
1460
1
24
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.176386
7f7a58d7-eba9-4a92-979d-33a18b8c8f2b
1175-5326
176386
6.
Petrolisthes carinipes
(
Heller, 1861
)
(
Fig. 6
)
Porcellana carinipes
Heller, 1861
: 257
, pl. 2, fig. 5.
Petrolisthes carinipes
.—
Lewinsohn 1974
: 249
, figs. 1–6, 7–13, 14–19.—
Haig 1983
: 282
; 1987: 12.—
Yang & Xu 1994
: 114
, figs. 2A–E.—
Hsieh
et al.
1998
: 301
, figs. 14B, 15A–I.—
Komai 2000
: 364
. Not
Petrolisthes carinipes
.—
Lewinsohn 1969
: 144
.
Material examined
. 1 ɗ, 4 Ψ (ov) (
SMNS
ZIa 3365),
Egypt
, Red Sea, Koseir, leg. Klunzinger, 1883; 3 ɗ, 10 Ψ (2 ov),
3 juv.
(severely damaged) (
SMNS
ZIa 3374),
Egypt
, Red Sea, Koseir, leg. Klunzinger, 1884.
Measurements
. Largest ɗ 4.9 x
4.6 mm
; largest Ψ 6.4 x
6.4 mm
.
Remarks
. The animals described and depicted by
Lewinsohn (1969)
as
P. carinipes
correspond to
P. m i l i - taris
(Heller), a similar species, which had not been previously reported for the Red Sea.
Lewinsohn (1974)
corrected this error and provided a new detailed description of
P. carinipes
.
Distribution
. Western Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea. In the western Pacific from the Ryukyu, Ogasawara, and
Mariana Islands
.