Sakaila imperialis ( Sakai, 1963 )

Martin, Joel W., Godwin, Scott & Moffitt, Robert, 2009, Additions to the decapod crustacean fauna of the Hawaiian Islands, I. A review of the genus Sakaila Manning and Holthuis, 1981 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Aethridae), with the description of a new species from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Zootaxa 2018, pp. 25-44 : 40

Sakaila imperialis ( Sakai, 1963)

This species was originally described based on a single specimen, the holotype female, collected from "Okino-yama, off Misaki, 80 m deep, coll. by His Majesty" [Emperor Hirohito] ( Sakai, 1963: 223). The holotype female is extant and is deposited at the Showa Memorial Institute (National Science Museum), Tsukuba City. A photograph of the holotype ( Fig. 7) was provided by Dr. Hiroshi Namikawa of the Showa Memorial Institute. A second specimen from a depth of 85 m (CL 19 mm, CW 15 mm) was later mentioned by Sakai in his monograph ( Sakai, 1976: 290). A second specimen at the Showa Institute is presumably the smaller specimen mentioned by Sakai (1976).