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Toru pilus

Authors/Creators

  • 1. National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, P. O. B. 8030, Haifa 31080 (Israel) bella @ ocean. org. il

Description

Toru pilus (Tan, 1996)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — SALOMON 1, stn DW 1776, 8°20.7’S, 160°40.7’E, 295-381 m, 29.IX.2001, 1 ♂ cl 12.5 mm (MNHN B.30198). — Stn CP 1800, 9°21.4’S, 160°23.9’E, 357-359 m, 1.X.2001, 1 ♀ cl 8.9 mm, 1 juv. (MNHN B.30199). — Stn CP 1801, 9°25.0’S, 160°25.9’E, 264-273 m, 1.X.2001, 1 ♂ cl 11.10 mm (MNHN B.30200). — Stn CP 1837, 10°12.8’S, 161°28.6’E, 381- 383 m, 5.X.2001, 1 ♂ cl 11.0 mm (MNHN B.30201). — Stn CP 1851, 10°27.6’S, 162°00.0’E, 297-350 m, 6.X.2001, 1 ♂ cl 12.3 mm (MNHN B.30202). — Stn CP 1860, 9°22.0’S, 160°31.0’E, 620 m, 7.X.2001, 2 ♂♂ cl 11.6 and 11.9 mm, 1 ovigerous ♀ cl 12.4 mm, 2 ♀♀ cl 9.0 and 9.1 mm (MNHN B.30203).

SALOMON 2, stn CP 2210, 7°34.2’S, 157°41.8’E, NW Santa Isabel, 240-305 m, XI.2004, 1 ♂ cl 11.5 mm (MNHN B.30204).

DISTRIBUTION. — Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Philippines, 234-500 m (Galil 2003a), new record for the Solomons and significant extension of the depth record.

Notes

Published as part of Galil, Bella S., 2007, The deep-water Calappidae, Matutidae and Leucosiidae of the Solomon Islands, with a description of a new species of Euclosia Galil, 2003 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura), pp. 555-563 in Zoosystema 29 (3) on page 561, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4689950

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Tan
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Leucosiidae
Genus
Toru
Species
pilus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Toru pilus (Tan, 1996) sec. Galil, 2007

References

  • TAN C. G. S. 1996. - Leucosiidae of the Albatross expedition to the Philippines, 1907 - 1910 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Decapoda). Journal of Natural History 30: 1021 - 1058.
  • GALIL B. S. 2003 a. - Four new genera of leucosiid crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Leucosiidae) for three new species and nine species previously in the genus Randallia Stimpson, 1857, with a redescription of the type species, R. ornata (Randall, 1939). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116 (2): 395 - 422.