Albunea symmysta Linnaeus 1758
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Albunea symmysta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Albunea symnista [sic]. — Latreille, 1829: 74. — Garstang, 1897: 224 –227, pl. 14, fig. 4a, b. — Estampador, 1959: 59. Albunea symmysta. — Davie, 2002: 27. — Boyko, 2002: 303 –313, figs. 98, 99 (full synonymy). — Osawa et al., 2010:20 –21, fig.11.
? Albunea symnista [sic]. — Wang, 1991: 8, 24, 279. — Wang & Yang, 1994: 573. — Scholtz & Richter, 1995: 291. — Muraoka, 1998: 56. — Komai, 2000: 368 (list). — Wang & Yang, 2001: 351. — Wang, 2008: 748 (list).
Material examined. Madagascar: specific locality unknown, 1928, coll. Mme. Prevot: 1 male, 18.8 mm cl (MNHN –Hi 149); India: Madras, 1874, coll. Rev. E. Jermyn: 1 female, 18.9 mm cl (OUMNH 2008-09 - 0112); near Madras, 1899, coll. E. S. Goodrich: 1 immature female, 8.7 mm cl (OUMNH 2008-09 -0111).
Distribution. East coast of India throughout southeast Asia to Taiwan, Queensland and Lord Howe Island, Australia, in up to 151.5 m depth (Boyko 2002; Osawa et al. 2010); possibly from Madagascar (needs confirmation, see below).
Remarks. As with the Madagascan specimen of Albunea groeningi reported above, A. symmysta is otherwise unknown from Madagascar, or indeed any part of the western Indian Ocean (see distribution). The locality data on the handwritten (in pen) label accompanying this specimen reads only “ Madagascar ” with an identification of A. steinitzi Holthuis, 1958. However, the label is clearly not original and consultation of the MNHN catalogue books provided no additional data. Thomassin (1969) reported this species from Madagascar, but examined no specimens nor cited any verifiable records from the literature (see Boyko 2002). In the absence of additional Madagascan material beyond the single specimen reported herein, I consider this a possible record of A. symmysta from Madagascar, but not a verified extension of the species’ range.
All of the above “?” citations of this species as Albunea “ symnista ” are possibly of this species but may well be misidentifications, especially the material from China. The specimen cited by Garstang (1897) from Madras, India, however, is clearly A. symmysta, based on direct examination of the specimen (OUMNH 2008- 09 -0112) upon which his illustration was based.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Albuneidae
- Genus
- Albunea
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- symmysta
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- Albunea symmysta Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Boyko, 2010
References
- Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Laur. Salvii, Holmiae, 824 pp.
- Latreille, P. A. (1829) Crustaces, arachnides et partie des insectes. (2 nd Edition) In: Cuvier, G. (Ed.), Le regne animal distribue d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparee. Nouvelle edition, revue et augmentee. Vol. 4. Chez Deterville, Libraire; et Chez Crochard, Libraire, Paris, pp. 1 - 584.
- Garstang, W. (1897) On some modifications of structure subservient to respiration in decapod Crustacea which burrow in sand; with some remarks on the utility of specific characters in the genus Calappa, and the descriptions of a new species of Albunea. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, series 2, 40 (158), 211 - 232, pls. 12 - 14.
- Estampador, E. P. (1959) Revised check list of Philippine crustacean decapods. Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, 17, 1 - 127.
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- Muraoka, K. (1998) Catalogue of the brachyuran and anomuran crabs donated by Prof. Tune Sakai to the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum. Catalogue of the Collection in the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, 11, 1 - 68.
- Komai, T. (2000) A check list of Thalassinidea and Anomura (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the South China Sea. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement, 8, 343 - 376.
- Wang, F. & Yang, S. (2001) Anomura. In: Huang, Z. (Ed.), Marine Species and Their Distribution in China's Seas. Krieger Publishing Co., Malabar, FL, pp. 348 - 353.
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- Holthuis, L. B. (1958) Crustacea Decapoda from the northern Red Sea (Gulf of Aqaba and Sinai Peninsula) II. Hippidea and Brachyura (Dromiacea, Oxystomata, and Grapsoidea). Israel Sea Fisheries Research Station Bulletin, 17 (9), 41 - 54.
- Thomassin, B. A. (1969) Identification, variabilite et ecologie des Hippidea (Crustacea, Anomura) de la region de Tulear, s. w. de Madagascar. Recueil des Travaux de la Station Marine d'Endoume, Faculte des Sciences de Marseille, serie supplement, 9, 135 - 177.