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Lauridromia intermedia Balicasag

  • 1. School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, PB 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand (colin. mclay @ canterbury. ac. nz) Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore (peterng @ nus. edu. sg)

Description

Lauridromia intermedia (Laurie, 1906)

Dromia intermedia Laurie, 1906: 351.— Ihle 1913: 23, pl. 1, figs. 1–3.— Campbell 1971: 29.— Sakai 1976: 8, pl. 1: fig. 3.

Lauridromia intermedia.— McLay 1993: 146, fig. 15d; 1998: 345.— Ng et al. 2000: 162, fig. 2d.— Ng et al. 2001: 6.

Material. 4 males, 16.4 x 16.1 mm, 23.1 x 22.5 mm, 24.0 x 23.8 mm, 30.0 x 29.5 mm, 200–300 m, 28 Nov 2001, ZRC 2001.969; 1 female, 23.9 x 24.3 mm, 200–300 m, 28 Nov 2001, ZRC 2001.971; 4 males, 20.3 x 21.6 mm, 36.9 x 35.0 mm, 38.6 x 36.8 mm, 45.3 x 42.5 mm, 2 females, 22.4 x 22.8, 25.0 x 25.2 mm, 200–300 m, Jun 2002, ZRC 2002.633; 1 female, 22.3 x 21.2 mm, 200–300 m, 25–30 Jul 2003, ZRC 2003.672; 1 female, 34.9 x 34.3 mm, 200–300 m, Mar 2004, MNHN; 1 male, 26.3 x 25.9 mm, 200–300 m, Apr 2004, ZRC; 1 male, 29.2 x 28.2 mm, 200–300 m, 29 May 2004, NMCR. All locations in Balicasag Island, Panglao, Bohol, Visayas, Philippines; purchased from local shell fishermen, obtained by tangle nets.

Remarks. Two species of Lauridromia are known from the Philippines: L. intermedia and L. indica, both of which have a carapace width which is approximately equal to the length. The differences between these two species are: in L. intermedia there are three equidistant acute anterolateral teeth on the carapace margin (while in L. indica there are five variable teeth); the inner margins of the dactyli of first two pairs of legs are armed with five small spines (versus the inner margins has eight small spines); the carapace is covered with short coarse tomentum with longer setae on the anterior branchial regions and along the margins (versus the surface is covered by short velvety tomentum); the spermathecal apertures at the end of sternal sutures 7/8 are well separated (versus spermathecal apertures close together); and the fifth and sixth abdominal segments are fused (versus segments only partially fused). The live colour of L. intermedia is orangeyellowish.

Distribution. Lauridromia intermedia has been reported from the Mindoro Strait, Philippines by McLay (1993); it also occurs in the Indian Ocean, Japan, Timor, Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia.

Notes

Published as part of Mclay, Colin L. & Ng, Peter K. L., 2005, On a collection of Dromiidae and Dynomenidae from the Philippines, with description of a new species of Hirsutodynomene McLay, 1999 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1029 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1029.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5050213

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNHN , ZRC
Material sample ID
ZRC 2001.969 , ZRC 2001.971 , ZRC 2002.633 , ZRC 2003.672
Event date
2001-11-28 , 2003-07-25
Verbatim event date
2001-11-28 , 2003-07-25/30
Scientific name authorship
Balicasag
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Dromiidae
Genus
Lauridromia
Species
intermedia
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lauridromia intermedia (Laurie, 1906) sec. Mclay & Ng, 2005

References

  • Laurie, R. D. (1906) Report on the Brachyura collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. In: W. A. Herdman (Ed.) Report to the Government of Ceylon on the pearl oyster fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. With supplementary reports upon the marine biology of Ceylon by other naturalists. Part 5, suppl. Rep. 40, 349 - 432, 12 text figs, 2 pls.
  • Ihle, J. W. E. (1913) Die Decapoda Brachyura der Siboga Expedition I. Dromiacea. Siboga Expeditie, Monograph 39 (b) 71, 1 - 96.
  • Campbell, B. M. (1971) New records and new species of crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) trawled off Southern Queensland: Dromiacea, Homolidae, Gymnopleura, Corystoidea and Oxystomata. Memoirs Queensland Museum, 16 (1), 27 - 48, figs. 1 - 4, pls. 2 - 3.
  • Sakai, T. (1976) Crabs of Japan and the adjacent seas. Tokyo, Kodansha Ltd., [In 3 volumes: (1) English text, xxxix + 773 pp., figs., 1 - 379, (2) Plates, 16 pp., pls. 1 - 251, (3) Japanese text, 461 pp., figs. 1 - 2].
  • McLay, C. L. (1993) Crustacea Decapoda: The sponge crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera. In A. Crosnier (Ed.), Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM Volume 10, Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, 156, 111 - 251, figs. 1 - 19.
  • Ng, P. K. L., Chan, T-Y. & Wang, C-H. (2000) The crabs of the families Dromiidae, Raninidae, Corystidae and Palicidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) of Taiwan. National Taiwan Museum Special Publication Series, 10, 155 - 180, figs. 1 - 11.
  • Ng, P. K. L., Wang, C-H., Ho, P-H. & Shih, H-T. (2001) An annotated checklist of brachyuran crabs from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda). National Taiwan Museum Special Publication Series, 11, 1 - 86, col. Figs. 1 - 8.