Trapezionida Macpherson & Baba

Komai, Tomoyuki, Tsuchida, Shinji & Fujiwara, Yoshihiro, 2023, New record of two species of munidid squat lobster (Decapoda: Anomura) from the North-West Pacific off Japan, Zootaxa 5369 (2), pp. 239-254 : 246

Genus Trapezionida Macpherson & Baba , in Machordom, Ahyong, Andreakis, Baba, Buckley, Garcia-Jimenez, McCallum, Rodriguez-Flores & Macpherson, 2022

Remarks. Trapezionida is presently represented by 157 species ( Machordom et al. 2022; Tiwari et al. 2022a, 2023; WoRMS 2023b), all of them are distributed in the Indo-West Pacific. From Japanese waters, the following 30 species assigned to the genus have been recorded ( Baba et al. 2008; Komai 2011, 2012; Komai & Higashiji 2016): T. agave ( Macpherson & Baba, 1993) , T. caesura ( Macpherson & Baba, 1993) , T. consobrina ( Komai, 2012) , T. disiunctus ( Komai, 2011) , T. heteracantha ( Ortmann, 1892) , T. honshuensis ( Benedict, 1902) , T. japonica ( Stimpson, 1858) , T. kawamotoi ( Osawa & Okuno, 2002) , T. koyo ( Komai, 2011) , T. leptosyne ( Macpherson, 1994) , T. longinquus ( Komai, 2011) , T. maculata ( Komai, 2012) , T. megalophthalma ( Komai, 2012) , T. multilineata ( Komai, 2012) , T. munin ( Komai, 2011) , T. nesaea ( Macpherson & Baba, 1993) , T. olivarae ( Macpherson, 1994) , T. ommata ( Macpherson, 2004) , T. osawai ( Komai, 2012) , T. paucistria ( Komai, 2012) , T. pectinata ( Macpherson & Machordom, 2005) , T. pherusa ( Macpherson & Baba, 1993) , T. rufiantennulata ( Baba, 1969) , T. sagamiensis ( Doflein, 1902) , T. solitaria ( Komai, 2012) , T. squamifera ( Komai, 2012) , T. striola ( Macpherson & Baba, 1993) , T. trigonocornus ( Komai, 2012) , T. vicina ( Komai, 2012) and T. zebra ( Macpherson, 1994) . In this study, we report T. psylla , previously known from the Southwest Pacific, as a species new to the Japanese fauna.