Lithodes turritus Ortmann 1892
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Lithodes turritus Ortmann, 1892
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Lithodes turritus Ortmann, 1892: 321, pl. 12, fig. 26. — Balss 1913: 73, figs 42–45, pl. 11. — Sakai 1971: 10, 32, figs 2a, b., pl. 4, fig. 1, pl. 11, fig. 1; 1976: 693, figs 376a, b, pl. 240, pl. 243, fig. 1. — Baba 1986: 211, 306, fig. 156. — Macpherson 1988a: 49; 1988b: 124; 1990: 218. — Ikeda 1998: 152, pl. 66. — Wu et al. 1998: 819, figs 1–2. — Komai 2000: 349.
Material examined. Taiwan: Dasi fishing port, Yilan County, commercial trawler, 500–600 m, 31.05.1996: 1 male 137 × 143 mm. — 9.04.1997: 1 male 149 × 155 mm, 1 female 134 × 132 mm. — 13.05.1997: 1 female 119 × 119 mm. — 02.1999: 1 male 65 × 67 mm. — 25.04.2003: 1 male 168 × 178 mm. — 18.12.1997: 1 ovigerous female 124 × 128 mm. — no date: 3 males 86 × 87 mm –141 × 159 mm, 1 female 79 × 79 mm.
Coloration. Body generally reddish, ventral surface paler to pinkish. Lateral surface of chelipeds somewhat whitish. Eyes black brown.
Distribution. Previously known from Japan, East China Sea, Philippines, between 300 and 812 m.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ortmann
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Lithodidae
- Genus
- Lithodes
- Species
- turritus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lithodes turritus Ortmann, 1892 sec. Macpherson & Chan, 2008
References
- Ortmann, A. E. (1892) Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Doderlein bei Japan und bei den Liu-Kiu-Inseln gesammelten und zur Zeit im Strassburger Museum aufbewahrten Formen. IV. Die Abtheilungen Galatheidea und Paguridea. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abtheilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 6, 241 - 326.
- Balss, H. (1913) Ostasiatische Decapoden I. Die Galatheiden und Paguriden. In: Doflein, F. (ed.), Beitraege zur Naturgeschichte Ostasiens. Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Klasse der Koniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2, 1 - 85, pls 1, 2.
- Sakai, T. (1971) Illustrations of 15 species of crabs of the family Lithodidae, two of which are new to science. Researches in Crustacea, 4 - 5, 1 - 49.
- Baba, K. (1986) In: Baba, K., Hayashi, K. - I. & Toriyama, M. (eds.) Decapod crustaceans from continental shelf and slope around Japan: The intensive research of unexploited fishery resources on continental slopes. Japan Fisheries Resource Conservation Association, Tokyo, 336 pp.
- Macpherson, E. (1988 a) Revision of the family Lithodidae Samouelle, 1819 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) in the Atlantic Ocean. Monografias de Zoologia Marina, 2, 9 - 153.
- Ikeda, H. (1998) The deep-sea crabs of Sagami Bay. Hayama Shiosai Museum, Kanagawa, 180 pp (in Japanese).
- Wu, S. H., Chan, T. Y. & Yu, H. P. (1998) First record of the king crab Lithodes turritus Ortmann, 1892 (Decapoda, Lithodidae) in Taiwanese waters. Crustaceana, 71, 818 - 823.
- Komai, T. (2000) A check list of Thalassinidea and Anomura (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the South China Sea. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, suplement 8, 343 - 376.