Oxypleurodon sanctaeclausi Richer de Forges & Ng, 2009

Fig. 13E

Oxypleurodon sanctaeclausi Richer de Forges & Ng, 2009a: 2–5, figs 1A–C, 3A, B, 11A (type locality: Bohol Sea, the Philippines).

Oxypleurodon sanctaeclausi – Richer de Forges & Ng 2009b: 248 (table). — Lee et al. 2015: 1261.

(For the complete synonymy of this species, see Richer de Forges & Ng 2009a: 2.)

Material examined

SOUTH CHINA SEA: 1 ♀ (16.6 × 11.5 mm) (ZRC 2016.0074), northwest of Dongsha, stn CP4160, 20°48.88′ N, 116°43.15′ E to 20°47.29′ N, 116°42.06′ E, 251– 195 m, coll. ZHONGSHA 2015 Expedition, 30 Jul. 2015.

Remarks

Richer de Forges & Poore (2008) recognised a new species, O. wilsoni, from south of the Western Australian coast (ca 30° S). They separated it from the allied O. luzonicum (Rathbun, 1916) by a number of characters but based this on material they had from the northern part of the Western Australian coast (ca 15° S). Richer de Forges & Ng (2009a) clarified the identity of O. luzonicum s. str. on the basis of topotypic material and recognised a new species, O. sanctaeclausi Richer de Forges & Ng, 2009, from the Bohol Sea, east of the Philippines. Species identified as “ O. luzonicum ” from the Indonesian archipelago and the Philippines by Richer de Forges (1995) are now all referred to O. sanctaeclausi as well (Richer de Forges & Ng 2009a: 4). The South China Sea is now added to the range of O. sanctaeclausi .