Three squat lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from tropical West Pacific seamounts, with description of a new species of Uroptychus Henderson, 1888
Author
Wang, Chunsheng
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-08-24
4311
3
389
398
journal article
32314
10.11646/zootaxa.4311.3.4
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Munidopsis bairdii
(
Smith, 1884
)
(
Figs. 3
A, 4B, 5A)
Galacantha bairdii
Smith, 1884
: 356
(
type
locality: offShore of
DelaWare Bay
,
WeStern Atlantic
;
2738 m
).
Munidopsis bairdii
.—
Faxon, 1895
: 83
.—
Benedict, 1902
: 317
, fig. 47.—
Khodkina, 1975
: 262
, fig. 2-2.—
Ambler, 1980
: 18
.—
Wenner, 1982
: 367
.—
Baba, 2005
: 285
(liSt of SynonymieS and referenceS).—
MacpherSon & Segonzac, 2005
: 17
, fig. 4.— MacpherSon, 2007: 43.—
OSaWa & Takeda, 2007
: 139
, fig. 4A, B.—
Baba
et al
., 2008
: 133
(compilation).
Material examined.
St. DV
78, slope of the
Pallada Guyot
,
East Mariana Basin
,
155.199°E
,
15.9076°N
, depth
2280 m
, associated with unknown coral, coll.
Dr. Bo Lu in
Jiaolong
manned submersible, R/
V
Xiangyanghong
9, 21 July
2014,
1 male
(PCL
8.4 mm
).
Coloration.
Entirely white.
Habitat.
In present study, commensal with unknown coral; Guyot slope.
Distribution.
Western
Pacific:
Okinawa
Through, East Mariana Basin; East Pacific: Gulf of
Panama
, off Mazatlan and off San Quintin,
Baja
California
, off
Ecuador
, off
Oregon
; Atlantic Ocean: offshore of
Delaware
Bay, off New
England
and Middle Atlantic Bight, Bay of Biscay, off
Ireland
; Indian Ocean: west of
Sri
Lanka
; depths of
1900–4260 m
.
Remarks.
The present specimen has the mesial eyespines directed forward and weakly anterolaterally, corresponding well with the descriptions and figures from
Macpherson & Segonzac (2005)
and
Osawa & Takeda (2007)
. The submedian spines on the carapace are arranged 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1 on the epigastric, protogastric, mesogastric, anterior cardiac, posterior cardiac, and intestinal regions, respectiVely. The posterior carapace marginal ridge is armed with 5 spines. The present specimen differs slightly from preVious reports in lacking a distodorsal spine on the article 3 of antennal peduncle, which maybe an intraspecific character.
The present species was obserVed for the first time associated with a cnidarian species (
Fig. 5A
).