Arcania septemspinosa
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Description
Arcania septemspinosa (Fabricius, 1787)
Cancer septemspinosus Fabricius, 1787: 325 (type locality: Indian Ocean).
Arcania septemspinosa – Galil 2001a: 193, figs 3b, 7b, synonymy. — Galil & Ng 2007: 87, fig. 2a (color photo).
Material examined
PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Sepik River: BIOPAPUA Stn CP 3702, 03°57’ S, 144°40’ E, 80–91 m, 1 Oct. 2010, 1 ♀, cl 16.1 mm; 1 ♀, parasitized, cl 16.8 mm; 1 juv. (MNHN-IU- 2011-2276). BIOPAPUA Stn CP 3703, 03°53’ S, 144°41’ E, 361–750 m, 1 Oct. 2010, 1 ♀, cl 16.8 mm (MNHN-IU-2011-1833).
Remarks
The fauna collected at stations CP3702 and CP3703 comprised seep fauna, i.e., mussels, clams, siboglonid polychaetes. The specimens of A. septemspinosa may have been collected in their vicinity.
Distribution
Red Sea to Australia, Vanuatu, Fiji, at depths of 7–182 m depth (Galil 2001a; Galil & Ng 2009, 2010).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Fabricius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Leucosiidae
- Genus
- Arcania
- Species
- septemspinosa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Arcania septemspinosa (Fabricius, 1787) sec. Galil, 2015
References
- Fabricus J. C. 1787. Mantissa Insectorum sistens eorum Species nuper detectas adiectis Characteribus genericis, Differentiis specificis, Emendationibus, Observationibus. I: i-xx, 1 - 348. C. G. Proft, Copenhagen. http: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / bibliography / 36471 # / summary
- Galil B. S. 2001 a. A revision of the genus Arcania Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Leucosioidea). Zoologische Mededelingen 75 (11): 169 - 206. Available from http: // www. repository. naturalis. nl / document / 45064 [accessed on 5 Sep. 2015]
- Galil B. S. & Ng P. K. L. 2007. Leucosiid crabs from Panglao, Philippines, with descriptions of three new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 16: 79 - 94.
- Galil B. S. & Ng P. K. L. 2009. Calappoidea and Leucosioidea (Crustacea; Decapoda; Brachyura) from Luzon, Philippines, with descriptions of two new species of Mursia. Zootaxa 2085: 45 - 60.
- Galil B. S. & Ng P. K. L. 2010. On a collection of calappoid and leucosioid crabs (Crustacea; Decapoda; Brachyura) from Vanuatu, with description of a new species. In: Castro P., Davie P. J. F., Ng P. K. L. & Richer de Forges B. (eds) Studies on Brachyura: a Homage to Daniele Guinot. Crustaceana Monographs. 11: 139 - 152. Brill, Leiden.