Albunea groeningi Boyko 2002
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Albunea groeningi Boyko, 2002
Albunea groeningi Boyko, 2002: 296 –303, figs. 96, 97 (full synonymy). — Markham & Boyko, 2003: 1, 2, 4, 5. — Osawa & Fujita, 2007: 137 –139, fig. 5f, g. — Osawa et al., 2010:12 –14, figs.5–6.
Material examined. Madagascar: specific locality unknown, coll. Unknown, date unknown: 1 male, 9.1 mm cl (SAM A10613).
Distribution. Southern Japan southward in a narrow band to Western Australia and Victoria, Australia, in up to 45.7 m depth (Boyko 2002); possibly from Madagascar (needs confirmation, see below).
Remarks. The identification of this specimen as A. groeningi is unquestionable, but the locality data is less definitive. Albunea groeningi is otherwise unknown from the western Indian Ocean (see distribution). The handwritten (in pencil) label accompanying this specimen reads only “ Madagascar, Wits Univ” with an identification of A. symnista [sic]. In the absence of more specific data or additional Madagascan material, I am inclined to consider this a possible record of A. groeningi from Madagascar, but not a verified extension of its range.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Albuneidae
- Genus
- Albunea
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Boyko
- Species
- groeningi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Albunea groeningi Boyko, 2002 sec. Boyko, 2010
References
- Boyko, C. B. (2002) A worldwide revision of the Recent and fossil sand crabs of the Albuneidae Stimpson and Blepharipodidae, new family (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Hippoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 272, 1 - 396.
- Markham, J. C. & Boyko, C. B. (2003) A new species of Albunione Markham & Boyko, 1999 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae: Pseudioninae) from Taiwan. American Museum Novitates, 3410, 1 - 7.
- Osawa, M. & Fujita, Y. (2007) Sand crabs of the genus Albunea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Albuneidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan, with the description of a new species. Species Diversity, 12, 127 - 140.
- Osawa, M., Boyko, C. B. & Chan, T. - Y. (2010) Part I. Hippoidea (mole crabs). In: T. - Y. Chan (Ed.), Crustacean Fauna of Taiwan: Crab-Like Anomurans (Hippoidea, Lithodoidea, Porcellanidae). National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, pp. 1 - 41.