Retropluma denticulata Rathbun 1932
Description
Retropluma denticulata Rathbun, 1932
(Fig. 11E)
Material examined. RV Hakuhō Maru KH-72-1 cruise, sta. 42, 1Ə (CB 7.8×CL 6.6 mm), NSMT-Cr 30943.
Remarks. The genus Retropluma was extensively studied by De Saint Laurent (1989) on six species then known, and later a new species was added by McLay (2006a). The most remarkable characteristic common to seven known species is that the last pair of the thoracic legs is extremely reduced. Even if all of the species are rather rare, R. denticulata is well known by the records from the West Pacific by Yokoya (1933), Sakai (1934, 1939, 1976), Zarenkov (1968), De Saint Laurent (1989), Chen and Xu (1991), Dai and Yang (1991), and Takeda (2001).
In R. denticulata (Fig. 11E), the rostrum is triangular, with a wide basal part; both of two transverse carinae of the carapace dorsal surface are wholly distinct between the carapace lateral margins of both sides.
McLay (2006a) included the new species, R. laurentae, which was preoccupied by a fossil crab and renamed R. solomonensis by McLay (2006b), in the key to six species prepared by De Saint Laurent (1989).
Distribution. Japan, South China Sea, Philippines, and Solomon Islands; 70–286 m depth.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Retroplumidae
- Genus
- Retropluma
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Rathbun
- Species
- denticulata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Retropluma denticulata Rathbun, 1932 sec. Arzivian, Alrubaie, Yang, Lin, Zhang & Leong, 2022
References
- Rathbun, M. J. 1932. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Japanese crabs. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 45: 29 - 38.
- Saint Laurent, M. De 1989. La nouvelle superfamille des Retroplumidea Gill, 1894 (Decapoda, Brachyura): Systematique, affinites et evolution. In: Forest, J. (ed.), Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, volume 5. Memoires du Museum national d`Histoire naturelle, Paris (A) 144: 103 - 179.
- McLay, C. L. 2006 a. Retroplumidae (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Indo-Malayan archipelago (Indonesia, Philippine) and the Melanesian arc islands (Solomon Islands, Fiji and New Caledonia), and paleogeographical comments. In: Richer de Forges, B. and J. - L. Jutine (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos. Volume 24. Memoires du Museum national d`Histoire naturelle, Paris 193: 375 - 391.
- Yokoya, Y. 1933. On the distribution of decapod crustaceans inhabiting the continental shelf around Japan, chiefly based upon the materials collected by S. S. Soyo-Maru, during the year 1923 - 1930. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Tokyo Imperial University 12: 1 - 226.
- Sakai, T. 1934. Brachyura from the coast of Kyushu, Japan. Science Reports of the Tokyo Bunrika Daigaku, (B) 1: 281 - 330, pls. 17 - 18.
- Sakai, T. 1939. Studies on the Crabs of Japan. IV. Brachygnatha, Brachyhryncha. Yokendo, Tokyo, pp. 365 - 741, pls. 42 - 111.
- Sakai, T. 1976. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. Kodansha, Tokyo, xxix + 773 pp. (English), 461 pp. (Japanese), 16 pp. + 251 pls. (Atlas).
- Zarenkov, N. A. 1968. Crabs of the families Retroplumidae and Palicidae collected by Soviet Expeditions in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 47: 761 - 766 (in Russian with English summary).
- Chen, H. and Z. Xu 1991. Study on the crabs of the Nansha Islands, China. [Studies on Marine Animals from the Nansha Islands and Neighbouring Waters] 3: 48 - 106 (in Chinese with English abstract).
- Dai, A. and S. Yang 1991. Crabs of the China Seas. China Ocean Press, Beijing, 21 + 608 pp., 74 pls.
- Takeda, M. 2001. Annotated list of crabs from Tosa Bay, southwest Japan, collected by the R / V Kotaka Maru during the years 1997 - 2000. In: Fujita, T., H. Saito and M. Takeda (eds), Deep-Sea Fauna and Pollutants in Tosa Bay. National Science Museum Monographs 20: 217 - 262.
- McLay, C. L. 2006 b. Retropluma solomonensis nom. nov., a replacement name for Retropluma laurentae McLay, 2006 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Retroplumidae). Zootaxa 1358: 67 - 68.