Galathea pubescens Stimpson 1858
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Galathea pubescens Stimpson, 1858: 90 (type locality: Hakodate and Amami-oshima, Japan, 46–60 m). — Miyake 1982: 145, pl. 49, fig. 3. — Baba 1969a: 48, fig. 5; 1988: 76; 2005: 83, fig. 30, 245. — Kim 1973: 176, fig. 20, pl. 65, figs, 6a, 6b. — Wu et al. 1998: 97, figs 14, 21A. — Komai 2000: 253. — Baba et al. 2008: 76. — Baba et al. 2009: 125, figs 105, 106.
Galathea subsquamata. — Wu et al. 1998: 100, figs. 16, 21C. — Wang 2008: 749. (Not G. subsquamata Stimpson, 1858)
Material examined. East China Sea. MBM 150117, 2 males (3.6, 4.1 mm), 1 ovigerous female (4.5 mm), St. 17, CN V577B- 67, 117 m, fine sand, AT, 29 Jun.1978; MBM 150121, 1 ovigerous female (4.9 mm), St. IV-6, CN V496B- 8, 115 m, 4 Jul.1976; MBM 150245, 1 male (3.8 mm), St. 5, CN V562B- 35, 147 m, fine sand, 30 may 1978; MBM 150323, 1 female (4.4 mm), St. III-8, CN V485B- 20, 107 m, moderate sand, AT, 27 Jun.1976; MBM 150338, 1 ovigerous female (5.3 mm), St. V-7, CN V473B- 145, 100 m, fine sand, 10 Oct.1975; MBM 150351, 2 ovigerous females (5.1, 5.4 mm), St. V-4, CN V519B- 192, 106 m, fine sand, 27 Aug.1976; MBM 150358, 2 males (3.7, 4.0 mm), 2 ovigerous females (4.6, 4.9 mm), St. IV-7, CN V554B- 155, 126 m, fine sand and broken shell, 21 Sep.1976.
South China Sea. Nansha Islands: MBM 150220, 1 female (6.5 mm), St. 34, CN 33, 145– 185 m, muddy sand, AT, 27 Jul.1988.
Distribution. Previously known from Durban, South Africa, Madagascar, Zanzibar, Korea, Japan (Amami-oshima, Murotozaki, SKii Peninsula, Sagami Bay, Hakodate), East China Sea, South China Sea, Taiwan, Arafura Sea, Kei Islands, Philippines, Bali Sea, Western Australia, Central Queensland, New Caledonia; 40–494 m depth. The present record extends the bathymetric ranges in the East and South China Seas from 120 m and 198–494 m to 110–147 m and 145–185 m respectively.
Remarks. The specimens agree with the previous descriptions with the pubescent carapace and armed with dorsal spinules on theanterior half. Baba (1969a) is the first to report the species from the East China Sea.
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- Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.5135435 (DOI)
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- Scientific name authorship
- Stimpson
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- Animalia
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- Arthropoda
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Galatheidae
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- Galathea
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- pubescens
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- Galathea pubescens Stimpson, 1858 sec. Dong & Li, 2010
References
- Stimpson, W. (1858) Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Pars VII. Crustacea Anomura. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 10, 225 - 252.
- Miyake, S. (1982) Japanese crustacean decapods and stomatopods in color. Vol. 1. Macrura, Anomura and Stomatopoda. Hoikusha, Osaka, 261 pp. (First edition; second printing in 1991 including some name changes of some species).
- Baba, K. (1969 a) Chirostylids and galatheids from dredgings and trawlings operated in the East China Sea by the Japanese Fisheries Research Vessel Kaiyo Maru in 1967. Ohmu, 2, 41 - 57.
- Kim, H. S. (1973) Anomura Brachyura. In: llustrated Encyclopedia of Fauna and Flora of Korea. Seoul, 694 pp.
- Wu, M. F., Chan, T. Y. & Yu, H. P. (1998) On the Chirostylidae and Galatheidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheidea) of Taiwan. Annual of Taiwan Museum, 40, 75 - 153.
- Komai, T. (2000) A check list of Thalassinidea and Anomura (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the South China Sea. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 8, 343 - 376.
- Baba, K., Macpherson, E., Poore, G. C. B., Ahyong, S. T., Bermudez, A., Cabezas, P., Lin, C. - W., Nizinski, M., Rodrigues, C. & Schnabel, K. E. (2008) Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura - families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). Zootaxa, 1905, 1 - 220.
- Baba, K., Macpherson, E., Lin, C. - W. & Chan, T. Y. (2009) Crustacean fauna of Taiwan: squat lobsters (Chirostylidae and Galatheidae). National Taiwan Ocean University, 1 - 311.
- Wang, Y. L. (2008) Infraorder ANOMURA MacLeay, 1838. In: Liu, J. Y. (ed.), Checklist of Marine Biota of China Seas. Science Press, Beijing, 748 - 761.