<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Carcinoplax sinica Chen 1984</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> </head> <body> <h2> <i>Carcinoplax sinica</i> Chen, 1984</h2> <p> <i>Carcinoplax sinica</i> Chen, 1984: 189 [in key], 190, 197, 200, fig. 2, pl. 1, figs 6, 10; 1998: 266 [in key], 270, 310 [in list], fig. 3 [South China Sea]. — Dai <i>et al</i>. 1986: 366 [in key], 366, figs 190-2 to 190-4, pl. 53, fig. 5 [China]. — Guinot 1989: 285 [discussion], figs 12-14, pl. 5 [Philippine Is]. — Dai & Yang 1991: 394 [in key], 395, figs 190-2 to 190-4, pl. 53, fig. 5 [China]. — Hsueh & Huang 2002: 119 [in key], 126, figs 8D, 11 [Taiwan].</p> <p> <i>Carcinoplax</i> (<i>purpurea</i> ?) – Stephensen 1946: 166, 208, fig. 44 (pl. 5, figs A-C 1 in Guinot [1989]) [Persian Gulf].</p> <p> <i>Carcinoplax purpurea</i> – Serène & Lohavanijaya 1973: 62 [in list], 63 [in key], 66, figs 148-155, pl. 14, figs B, C, pl. 15, fig. B [Hong Kong, Vietnam, Gulf of Thailand]. — Serène & Vadon 1981: 118, 123 (part) [Philippine Is] (not <i>Carcinoplax purpurea</i> Rathbun, 1914).</p> <p>TYPE MATERIAL. — ♂ holotype (IOAS K248 B-23); ♀ allotype (IOAS X50 B-37); 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ paratypes (IOAS K234 B-44); 1 ♂, 1 ♀ paratypes (IOAS Q129 B-39).</p> <p>TYPE LOCALITY. — South China Sea, 19°50’N, 109°00’W, 25 m.</p> <p>MATERIAL EXAMINED. — <b>Taiwan.</b> Kaohsiung, Tungkang fishing port, L. S. Huang coll., 4.VIII.1996, 1 ♀ (ZRC 2001.0136).</p> <p> <b>South China Sea.</b> Stn 6269, 31 m, 13.V.1960, H. Chen leg., 1 ♀ (MNHN-B 16939).</p> <p>MUSORSTOM 1, stn 1, 14°28’N, 120°42’E, 36-37 m, 18.III.1976, 10 ♂♂, 1 pre-adult ♀, 14 ♀♀ (MNHN-B 10142).</p> <p> <b>Indonesia.</b> Tanimbar Is, KARUBAR, stn CP 63, 08°00’S, 132°58’E, 215- 214 m, 1.XI.1991, 1 ♂ (MNHN-B 29307).</p> <p>DISTRIBUTION. — Persian Gulf (Stephensen 1946, as <i>C. purpurea</i>) and western Pacific Ocean from Taiwan to Indonesia. Depth: 25- 215 m.</p> <p>REMARKS</p> <p> <i>Carcinoplax sinica</i> has often been confused with <i>C. purpurea</i>. Differences were outlined by Guinot (1989: 287). The most marked difference is in the morphology of the second anterolateral tooth: hook-like and more salient in <i>C. sinica</i> (Guinot 1989: fig. 12) than in <i>C. purpurea</i> (Guinot 1989: fig. 11). There are also differences in the colour patterns, a reddish carapace in <i>C. sinica</i> (see Hsueh & Huang 2002: fig. 8D) that is unfortunately readily lost in preservation and a purple-red band along the medial axis of the carapace in <i>C. purpurea</i> (see Hsueh & Huang 2002: fig. 8C).</p> <p>Photographs of specimens identified as <i>C. purpurea</i> by Serène & Lohavanijaya (1973: pl. 14, figs B, C, pl. 15, fig. B) shows that the material belongs to <i>C. sinica</i>. It can also be confirmed that part of the MUSORSTOM 1 material originally identified as <i>C. purpurea</i> by Serène & Vadon (1981) actually belonged to <i>C. sinica</i> as previously reported by Guinot (1989: 287).</p> </body> </html>