Tetralia cinctipes Paulson, 1875

Sun, Yu-Li, Jiang, Wei & Sha, Zhong-Li, 2024, Shallow-water Trapezioidea (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the South China Sea, including two new records, and notes on Tetralia glaberrima Herbst, 1790, Zootaxa 5476 (1), pp. 393-423 : 399

Tetralia cinctipes Paulson, 1875

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Tetralia cavimana var. cinctipes Paulson, 1875: 60 , tab. 7 fig. 8.

Tetralia cinctipes . — Galil 1986b: 97, figs. 1–3 ( Taiwan Island); 1987: 171, fig. 7 ( Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea, Tahiti).— Galil & Clark 1988: 138, figs. 1A, 3A, 4A, F, 5A, 6A.— Castro 1997a: 64; 1997b: 111, pl. 1A; 1999a: 40; 1999b: 101; 2003: 441; 2009: 277.— Castro et al. 2004: 25 (list).—Castro & Titelius 2008: 320.— Ng et al. 2008: 184 (list). — Limviriyakul 2016: 4, fig. 4i ( Taiwan Island).— Maenosono 2017: 38, fig. 7D, E (the Ryukyus).— Poupin 2018: 37, fig. 12C ( Mayotte Island).

Tetralia cavimanus Miers, 1884: 537 .

Tetralia heterodactyla Heller, 1861: 14 .

Tetralia glaberrima f. pullidactyla Patton, 1966: 287— Serène 1984: 282, pl. 40, fig. C.

Tetralia glaberrima pullidactyla Garth, 1971: 185 .

Material examined. Nansha Islands: Mischief Reef, 115°32.5’E 9°55.7’N, 11 m, coll. Shaobo Ma, Yuli Sun, Ziming Yuan, 5 May 2022, 1 pre-adult (3.26 × 2.61 mm), NS-MJJ-2022-1100 ; 1 pre-adult (2.71 × 2.29 mm), NS- MJJ-2022-1101 ; 1 pre-adult (2.46 × 2.13 mm), NS-MJJ-2022-1102; 115°34.4’E 9°53.5’N, 8 m, coll. Shaobo Ma, Yuli Sun, Ziming Yuan, 11 May 2022, 1 male (4.68 × 4.02 mm), 1 female (5.18 × 4.48 mm), 7 juveniles (1.80 × 1.45 mm; 2.51 × 1.94 mm; 3.58 × 3.07 mm; 3.53 × 2.84 mm; 2.53 × 2.25 mm; 2.62 × 2.33 mm; 2.54 × 2.31 mm), NS-MJ-2022-1870, in Acropora cytherea .— Hainan Island: Dong Hai Jiao, coll. Ruixing Lü, 24 October 2021, 4 males, 4 females, 3 pre-adults (3.68 × 3.23 mm; 3.79 × 4.01 mm; 3.61 × 3.18 mm), SY1011. All found in Acropora ( Acroporidae ) .

Geographical distribution. It is distributed in the Red Sea and Western Pacific ( Castro et al. 2004) .

Remarks. Tetralia cinctipes generally inhabits densely branched corals. It always occurs as a few heterosexual pairs as well as some juveniles in a coral colony.

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FIGURE 2. A, Tetralia aurantistellata Trautwein, 2007, male (5.86 × 5.13 mm) (NS-MJJ-2022-1568), Nansha Islands, Mischief Reef; B, Tetralia brengelae Trautwein, 2007, ovigerous female (6.15 × 5.49 mm) (XS-QL-2022-1087), Xisha Islands, Seven Connected Islets; C, Tetralia cinctipes Paulson, 1875, ovigerous female (5.18 × 4.48 mm) (NS-MJ-2022-1870), Nansha Islands, Mischief Reef; D, Tetralia cinctipes, juveniles (1.80 × 1.45 mm; 2.51 × 1.94 mm) (NS-MJ-2022-1870), Nansha Islands, Mischief Reef.