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Atergatopsis alcocki

Description

Atergatopsis alcocki (Laurie, 1906)

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Actaea alcocki Laurie, 1906: 403.— Odhner, 1925: 43, pl. 3, fig.

4.— Balss, 1938b: 54, pl. 2, figs 3-4. Xantho bowensis. — Rathbun, 1923:103, pl. 20, figs 1-3. Atergatopsis alcocki.— Guinot, 1969: 232, fig. 15a-c.— Sakai,

1976: 413, fig. 218.— Serène, 1984: 141 (key), 142 (key).

Aff. Atergatopsis alcocki.— Serène, 1984: 143 (list), pl. 20 E.

Material examined. NMV J46930, 1 male, Cb = 32.4 mm, Cl = 22.4 mm (acq. 118) Survey SS 2012t 07, Stn 02, 11°13.78'–13.78'S, 134°44.47'– 44.44'E, 23.3 m, Benthic sled, 17/10/2012.

Colour in preservative. Carapace brown, darker in the first half, until last anterolateral tooth; ambulatory legs brown/orange; chelipeds brown with black chelae; abdomen beige.

Remarks. The specimen from the Timor Sea agrees well with the description in Laurie (1906). The holotype is described by Laurie as yellowish with a circular brown patch in the gastric region in live specimens. The single male specimen from the Timor Sea lacked the brown patch as does the specimen described by Rathbun (1923, plate 20) collected in Queensland, Australia.

Distribution. Sri Lanka, Singapore, Japan (Kii Peninsula), Australia (Queensland and Northern Australia) (Laurie, 1906; Rathbun, 1923; Sakai, 1976). Depth range 15– 35 m.

Notes

Published as part of Iwasa-Arai, Tammy, McCallum, Anna W. & Taylor, Joanne, 2015, Oceanic Shoals Commonwealth Marine Reserve survey reveals new records of xanthid crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from northern Australia, pp. 1-11 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 73 on pages 5-6, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2015.73.01, http://zenodo.org/record/8065118

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NMV
Material sample ID
J46930
Event date
2012-10-17
Verbatim event date
2012-10-17
Scientific name authorship
Laurie
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Xanthidae
Genus
Atergatopsis
Species
alcocki
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Atergatopsis alcocki (Laurie, 1906) sec. Iwasa-Arai, McCallum & Taylor, 2015

References

  • Laurie, R. D., 1906. Report on the Brachyura collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. In: W. A. Herdman, 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, figs 1 - 12, pls 1 - 2.
  • Odhner, T., 1925. Monographierte Gattungen der Krabben-familie Xanthidae. I. Goteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhalles Handlingar, (4) 29 (1): 1 - 92, figs 1 - 7, pls 1 - 5.
  • Balss, H., 1938 b. Uber einige Xanthidae (Crustacea, Dekapoda) von Singapore und Umgebung. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, 14: 48 - 63, figs 1 - 2, pls 2 - 3.
  • Rathbun, M. J., 1923. Report on the crabs obtained by the F. I. S. " Endeavour " on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Report on the Brachyrhyncha, Oxystomata and Dromiacea. Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried out by the F. I. S. " Endeavour ", 1909 - 14 5: 95 - 156, pls 116 - 142.
  • Guinot, D., 1969. Sur divers Xanthidae notament sur Actaea de Haan et Paractaea gen. nov. (Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura). Cahiers du Pacifique, 13: 223 - 267, figs 1 - 36.
  • Sakai, T., 1976. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. (In 3 volumes: (1) English text: i-xxix, 1 - 773, figs 1 - 379, (2) Plates volume: 1 - 16, pls 1 - 251, (3) Japanese text: 1 - 461, figs 1 - 2, 3 maps.) Kodansha Ltd, Tokyo.
  • Serene, R., 1984. Crustaces Decapodes Brachyoures de l'Ocean Indien occidental et de la Mer Rouge, Xanthoidea: Xanthidae et Trapeziidae. Avec un addendum par Crosnier (A): Carpiliidae et Menippidae. Faune Tropicale, no. XXIV: 1 - 349, figs A-C + 1 - 243, pls 1 - 48. (Translated into English by R. W. Ingle).