Platymaia fimbriata Rathbun, 1916

Islam, Atikul, Banerjee, Abhishek, Wati, Sisca Meida, Banerjee, Sumita, Shrivastava, Deepti & Srivastava, Kumar Chandan, 2022, Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Sea off East and Southeast Asia Collected by the RV Hakuhō Maru (KH- 72 - 1 Cruise) 2. Timor Sea, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology 48 (1), pp. 5-24 : 16

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.50826/bnmnszool.48.1_5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12571421

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039387EC-AF52-FF86-FF53-2B4E88FFFADB

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Platymaia fimbriata Rathbun, 1916
status

 

Platymaia fimbriata Rathbun, 1916 View in CoL

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Material examined. RV Hakuhō Maru KH-72-1 cruise, sta. 26 (Timor Sea; 09°27.0′S, 127°58.6′E –09°285.0′S, 127°56.1′E, 610–690 m depth), 3 m beam trawl; June 19, 1972; 1♂ (NSMT-Cr 29262: CL 9.3 mm excluding pseudorostral spine, CB 8.7 mm).

RV Hakuhō Maru KH-72-1 cruise, sta. 33 (Off Sahul Shelf, 12°42.2′S, 123°07.6′E – 12°42.0′S, 123°08.5′E, 535–547 m depth), 3 m beam trawl; June 26, 1972; 1♂ (NSMT-Cr 29263: CL 14.0 mm excluding pseudorostral spines, CB 12.6 mm).

Remarks. Of ten Platymaia species enumerated by Ng et al. (2008), P. fimbriata is very unique in having numerous spines on the carapace dorsal surface. Both specimens examined are small, but agree well with the original description ( Rathbun, 1916) and the illustrations and photographs by Sakai (1965: pl. 5 fig. 5; 1976: pl. 58), Griffin (1976: fig. 9), and Guinot and Richer de Forges (1985: figs. 7, 8A–B, pl. 1 fig. F–G).

Distribution. Eastern Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan; 250–1095 m depth. Davie (2002) listed this species in the Zoological Catalogue of Australia based on the records by Griffin and Tranter (1986a) and Davie and Short (1989).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Inachidae

Genus

Platymaia

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