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[New Japanese name: Tsunome-hime-yadokari] (
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B)
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<emphasis id="B90F5345FFB0AA5BC9D6F939FE25F923" box="[151,395,1742,1765]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="38">Catapaguroides foresti</emphasis>
McLaughlin, 2002: 499
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, fig. 1 [
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locality:
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, figs. 810 [
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, Okinawa Islands,
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] [New synonymy].
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Non-type:
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,
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diving, coll. Y. Yamada and N. Shirakawa, CBM-ZC 9978; 1 ovigerous female (sl
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), Kashiwa-jima Island, Ohtsuki,
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Prefecture, subtidal,
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diving, coll. E. Myorin, CBM-ZC 9980.
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A,
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, holotype, male (sl 2.1 mm), CBM-ZC 9977, in situ; B,
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McLaughlin, 2002
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, male (sl 1.1 mm), CBM-ZC 9978, in situ. Photography: Y. Yamada.
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<emphasis id="B90F5345FFBEAA55C984FF60FE04FF77" bold="true" box="[197,426,151,177]" pageId="8" pageNumber="40">Coloration in life.</emphasis>
See
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B. Shield generally translucent, with red marking either side of midline. Posterior carapace translucent, with red making laterally. Ocular peduncles each with red longitudinal stripes dorsolaterally and ventrolaterally; cornea gray, with conspicuous brown spot terminally. Antennular peduncles banded with orange: basal segment with 1 middle band, penultimate segment with 1 proximal band, and ultimate segment with proximal and middle bands; aesthetasc-bearing portion of flagellum orangish, distal portion colorless. Antennal peduncles also banded with orange: second segment with broad band; fifth segment with 2 bands; antennal acicle with broad band; flagellum pale orange. Right cheliped with red-orange band on dorsal surface of dactylus at proximal margin; palm with red-orange patch on dorsomesial surface subdistally and broad orange-red band on dorsal surface proximally; dorsal surface of carpus with red-orange band proximally and distally, and similarly colored patch medially; merus with median red-orange band on dorsal surface. Left cheliped with red-orange subdistal and proximal bands on dorsal surface of dactylus; palm, carpus and merus with coloration as on right cheliped. Dactyli of ambulatory legs each with faint redorange tinge, and darker red-orange band proximally; propodi, carpi and meri each with proximal and middle red-orange bands.
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<emphasis id="B90F5345FFBEAA55C984FD55FE52FD7A" bold="true" box="[197,508,674,700]" pageId="8" pageNumber="40">Distribution and habitat.</emphasis>
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and southern
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, to
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Often found in submarine caves.
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The present three specimens (two from Okinawa Island and one from
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Prefecture) agree well with the original descriptions of
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(described on the basis of
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from
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) and
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<emphasis id="B90F5345FFBEAA55C869FCE5FE22FCED" box="[296,396,786,811]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="40">C. kasei</emphasis>
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(described on the basis of four specimens from Ie
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, Okinawa Islands, Ryukyu Islands) in most diagnostic aspects. As noted by
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is morphologically very similar to
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. The only distinguishing character cited by
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is the relative length of the carpus of the left cheliped (1.72.0 times as long as the palm in
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versus 1.51.6 times in
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). In the present specimens, the carpus of the left cheliped is 1.51.7 times the length of the palm, which is just intermediate between those given by
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. Consequently, it is obvious that this character is not reliable for species discrimination. We could not find other characters separating these two taxa and conclude that
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is synonymous with
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.
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