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Odontodactylus cultrifer White 1851

Description

Odontodactylus cultrifer (White, 1851)

(Fig. 1C)

Gonodactylus cultrifer WHITE, 1851: 96, PL. 16: FIGS. 1, 2 [TYPE LOCALITY: CHINA].

Gonodactylus carinifer POCOCK, 1893: 478, PL. 20B, FIG. 4 [TYPE LOCALITY: HOLOTHURIA BANK, 13°25’S, 126°00’E].

Odontodactylus cultrifer.— KEMP 1913: 137–138.—MOOSA 1986: 382; 1991: 162.—AHYONG 2001: 79–81, FIG. 38; 2010: 110.

Odontodactylus carinifer.— KEMP 1913: 138–139.

Odontodactylus mindanaoensis ROxAS & ESTAMPADOR, 1930: 94, 115, PL. 4: FIGS. 1–3 [TYPE LOCALITY: COTABATO, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES, 7°13’S, 124°15’E].

Odontodactylus cultrifer VAR. tridentata SERENE, 1954: 6, 7, 8, 72, PL. 6: FIGS. 7, 8 [TYPE LOCALITY: NHATRANG BAY, VIETNAM].

Material examined. Tamil Nadu: DABFUK, 1 male (TL 82 mm), Arabian Sea off Muttom, 7 October 2016; DABFUK, 1 male (TL 90 mm), Arabian Sea off Muttom, 7 October 2016.

Remarks. The present specimens represent the first records of O. cultrifer from India and the westernmost record of the species. The dactyli of the raptorial claws haVe three teeth on the occlusal margin.

Distribution. Japan to the South China Sea, Australia, the Andaman Sea, and now from India; 7–51 m (Ahyong 2001).

Notes

Published as part of Ahyong, Shane T. & Kumar, Appukuttannair Biju, 2018, First records of seven species of mantis shrimp from India (Crustacea: Stomatopoda), pp. 381-394 in Zootaxa 4370 (4) on page 384, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4370.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1146459

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Biodiversity

Collection code
FIGS, LOCALITY , FIGS, LOCALITY, MINDANAO , FIGS, LOCALITY, NHATRANG, BAY
Event date
2016-10-07
Verbatim event date
2016-10-07
Scientific name authorship
White
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Stomatopoda
Family
Odontodactylidae
Genus
Odontodactylus
Species
cultrifer
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Odontodactylus cultrifer White, 1851 sec. Ahyong & Kumar, 2018