Pentacheles validus A. Milne Edwards 1880
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Pentacheles validus A. Milne Edwards, 1880
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Pentacheles validus A. Milne Edwards, 1880: 65 [type locality: off Bequia, Windward Islands, West Indies]. — Galil, 2000: 291 (key), 308–311, fig. 10. — Ahyong & Brown, 2002: 56, 75, 76.
Pentacheles debilis Smith, 1884: 360 [type locality: off New England, United States of America].
Pentacheles debilis var. armatus Bouvier, 1905a: 480 [type locality: off Canary Islands].
Polycheles demani Stebbing, 1917: 28 [type locality: off Cape Point Lighthouse, South Africa].
Polycheles chilensis Sund, 1920: 226 [type locality: off Juan Fernández Islands].
Material examined. West Norfolk Ridge: AM P72219, 1 male (45.2 mm), 2 females (19.9–28.9 mm), 35°35.83’S, 169°33.43’E, 1760–1786 m, TAN0308/167 #018, 5 Jun 2003; NIWA 28050, 1 female (18.3 mm), 35°35.83’S, 169°33.43’E, 1760–1786 m, TAN0308/167 #018, 5 Jun 2003.
Lord Howe Rise: NIWA 28056, 3 males (25.3–53.5 mm), 2 females (27.8–46.5 mm), 32°03.98’S, 159°52.80’E, 1920–1934 m, TAN0308/71 #010, 24 May 2003; AM P66151, 1 male (51.8 mm), 1 female (58.7 mm), 32°11.59’S, 160°51.66’E, 1342–1361 m, TAN0308/72 #006, 24 May 2003; NMNZ, 1 male (56.8 mm), 32°25.94’S, 161°47.62’E, 1132–1197 m, TAN0308/73 #34, 24 May 2003.
Colour in life. Overall pale rose-pink. Chelipeds, walking legs and uropods crimson.
Remarks. Pentacheles validus has been reported from New Zealand, Australia and New Caledonia (Galil 2000; Ahyong & Brown 2002) so its presence in the study area is expected. The carapace spination (8–9, 4–5, 29–31) agrees closely with the reported range (7–9, 4, 20–32) (Galil 2000) and (7–8, 3–4, 23–30) (Ahyong & Brown 2002).
Distribution. Worldwide, from the Indo-West Pacific, Eastern Pacific, Western and Eastern Atlantic, including New Caledonia, Australia, and New Zealand; 914–3365 m (Galil, 2000).
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- Scientific name authorship
- A. Milne Edwards
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Polychelidae
- Genus
- Pentacheles
- Species
- validus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pentacheles validus Edwards, 1880 sec. Ahyong, 2007
References
- Milne-Edwards, A. (1880) Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Caribbean Sea, 1877, ' 78, ' 79, by the US coast survey steamer Blake. VIII. Etudes preliminaires sur les Crustaces. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachussetts, 8 (1), 1 - 68, pls 1 - 2.
- Galil, B. S. (2000) Crustacea Decapoda: Review of the genera and species of the family Polychelidae Wood-Mason, 1874. In: A. Crosnier (ed.), Resultats des Campagnes Musorstom, Volume 21. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, 184, 285 - 387.
- Ahyong, S. T. & Brown, D. E. (2002) New species and new records of Polychelidae from Australia (Crustacea: Decapoda). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 50 (1), 53 - 79.
- Smith, S. I. (1884) XV. Report on the Decapod Crustacea of the Albatross Dredgings off the East-coast of the United States in 1883. Report of the United States Fish Commission, 10 (1882), 345 - 426, pls. 1 - 10.
- Bouvier, E. L. (1905 a) Sur les Palinurides et les Eryonides recueillis dans l'Atlantique oriental par les expeditions francaises et monegasques. Comptes Rendus des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris 140, 479 - 482.
- Stebbing, T. R. R. (1917) IX. South African Crustacea. Annals of the South African Museum, 17 (1), 23 - 46, pls. 1 - 8.
- Sund, O. (1920) The Challenger Eryonidea (Crustacea). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (9), 6, 220 - 226.