Shallow-water Trapezioidea (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the South China Sea, including two new records, and notes on Tetralia glaberrima Herbst, 1790
Author
Sun, Yu-Li
Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China. & Laboratory of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.
Author
Jiang, Wei
0000-0003-4767-8196
Laboratory of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China. & Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China. & Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao Marine Science and Technology Center, Qingdao 266237, China
jiangwei@qdio.ac.cn
Author
Sha, Zhong-Li
Laboratory of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China. & Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China. & Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao Marine Science and Technology Center, Qingdao 266237, China
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-07-04
5476
1
393
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5476.1.30
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5476.1.30
1175-5326
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Tetralia cinctipes
Paulson, 1875
(
Fig. 2C, D
)
Tetralia cavimana
var.
cinctipes
Paulson, 1875: 60
, tab. 7 fig. 8.
Tetralia cinctipes
.
—
Galil 1986b: 97
, figs. 1–3 (
Taiwan Island
); 1987: 171, fig. 7 (
Indonesia
,
Australia
, New
Guinea
, Tahiti).—
Galil & Clark 1988: 138
, figs. 1A, 3A, 4A, F, 5A, 6A.—
Castro 1997a: 64
;
1997b: 111
, pl. 1A; 1999a: 40; 1999b: 101; 2003: 441; 2009: 277.—
Castro
et al.
2004: 25
(list).—Castro & Titelius 2008: 320.—
Ng
et al.
2008: 184
(list). —
Limviriyakul 2016: 4
, fig. 4i (
Taiwan Island
).—
Maenosono 2017: 38
, fig. 7D, E (the Ryukyus).—
Poupin 2018: 37
, fig. 12C (
Mayotte Island
).
Tetralia cavimanus
Miers, 1884: 537
.
Tetralia heterodactyla
Heller, 1861: 14
.
Tetralia glaberrima
f.
pullidactyla
Patton, 1966: 287—
Serène 1984: 282
, pl. 40, fig. C.
Tetralia glaberrima pullidactyla
Garth, 1971: 185
.
Material examined. Nansha Islands
:
Mischief Reef
,
115°32.5’E
9°55.7’N
,
11 m
, coll. Shaobo Ma, Yuli Sun, Ziming Yuan,
5 May 2022
, 1 pre-adult (3.26 ×
2.61 mm
), NS-MJJ-2022-1100; 1 pre-adult (2.71 ×
2.29 mm
), NS- MJJ-2022-1101; 1 pre-adult (2.46 ×
2.13 mm
), NS-MJJ-2022-1102;
115°34.4’E
9°53.5’N
,
8 m
, coll.
Shaobo Ma
,
Yuli Sun
,
Ziming Yuan
,
11 May 2022
,
1 male
(4.68 ×
4.02 mm
),
1 female
(5.18 ×
4.48 mm
),
7 juveniles
(1.80 ×
1.45 mm
; 2.51 ×
1.94 mm
; 3.58 ×
3.07 mm
; 3.53 ×
2.84 mm
; 2.53 ×
2.25 mm
; 2.62 ×
2.33 mm
; 2.54 ×
2.31 mm
), NS-MJ-2022-1870, in
Acropora cytherea
.—
Hainan
Island: Dong Hai Jiao
, coll.
Ruixing Lü
,
24 October 2021
,
4 males
,
4 females
, 3 pre-adults (3.68 ×
3.23 mm
; 3.79 ×
4.01 mm
; 3.61 ×
3.18 mm
), SY1011.
All
found in
Acropora
(
Acroporidae
)
.
Geographical distribution.
It is distributed in the
Red Sea
and
Western Pacific
(
Castro
et al.
2004
)
.
Remarks.
Tetralia cinctipes
generally inhabits densely branched corals. It always occurs as a few heterosexual pairs as well as some juveniles in a coral colony.