Arcania septemspinosa (Fabricius, 1787)

Galil, Bella S., 2015, On a collection of Leucosioidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Papua New Guinea, with the description of a new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 155, pp. 1-10 : 4

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2015.155
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7A4E94D5-B63A-4D14-B811-BFA08C8CC004
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3793612
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B787C8-513F-FFC9-E908-FC475B1BF9D7
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Arcania septemspinosa (Fabricius, 1787)
status

Treatment

Arcania septemspinosa (Fabricius, 1787) View in CoL

Cancer septemspinosus Fabricius, 1787: 325 (type locality: Indian Ocean).

Arcania septemspinosa View in CoL – Galil 2001a: 193, figs 3b, 7b, synonymy. — Galil & Ng 2007: 87, fig. 2a (color photo).

Material examined

PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Sepik River: BIOPAPUA Stn CP 3702, 03°57’ S, 144°40’ E, 80–91 m, 1 Oct. 2010, 1 ♀, cl 16.1 mm; 1 ♀, parasitized, cl 16.8 mm; 1 juv. (MNHN-IU- 2011-2276). BIOPAPUA Stn CP 3703, 03°53’ S, 144°41’ E, 361–750 m, 1 Oct. 2010, 1 ♀, cl 16.8 mm (MNHN-IU-2011-1833).

Remarks

The fauna collected at stations CP3702 and CP3703 comprised seep fauna, i.e., mussels, clams, siboglonid polychaetes. The specimens of A. septemspinosa may have been collected in their vicinity.

Distribution

Red Sea to Australia, Vanuatu, Fiji, at depths of 7–182 m depth ( Galil 2001a; Galil & Ng 2009, 2010).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
Family	Leucosiidae
Genus	Arcania