Palicoides whitei ( Miers, 1884 )

Shaga, I Bevin, Priya, K, Ramar, Selvakumar, Srinidhi, S, Mohan, G Chandra, Ranganathan, Sukanya, Moulvi, S M M & Mani, Bhuvaneswari, 2023, A Small Collection of Subtidal Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Palau Islands Collected by Dredging, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology 49 (1), pp. 7-42 : 34-36

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https://doi.org/ 10.50826/bnmnszool.49.1_7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13826535

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scientific name

Palicoides whitei ( Miers, 1884 )
status

 

Palicoides whitei ( Miers, 1884) View in CoL

( Figs. 14A–B View Fig , 15A–B View Fig )

Cymopolia whitei Miers, 1884, p. 551 View in CoL , pl. 49 fig. C.

Palicus whitei (Miers) View in CoL : Alcock, 1900, p. 453.─ Calman, 1900, p. 31, figs. 14–19.─ Rathbun, 1911, p. 240, pl. 19 fig. 10.─ McNeill, 1968, p. 82.

Palicoides whitei (Miers) View in CoL : Moosa and Serène, 1981, p. 46, figs. 9–10.─ Castro, 2000, pp. 561 (in key), 565 (lit.), figs. 42b, 43b–d, 61d.

Palicoides ternatensis Moosa and Serène, 1981, p. 50 View in CoL , fig. 11, pl. 3 fig. B.

Material examined. Off Kwannon , Koror I., Palau Is., dredged, with coralline algae; 1♂(cb 7.0×cl 4.7 mm), NSMT-Cr 31000; June 17, 1980; K. Baba leg.

Remarks. Both chelipeds, three pairs of the right ambulatory legs and the left third or fourth leg, and both of the reduced last pereopods are missing in the male at hand. However, it is safely identified as Palicoides whitei due to the detailed morphological differentiation from another representative of the genus, P. longimana ( Miyake, 1936) , based on numerous specimens by Castro (2000). The sculpture of the carapace dorsal surface is characteristic as shown in Fig. 14A View Fig . The distal part of the eyestalk is strongly developed as a curved tubercle to protect the cornea, indicated with arrow in Fig. 15A View Fig . The G1 of the present male agrees with the figures given by Calman (1900), Moosa and Serène (1981) and Castro (2000), in having the bifurcated distal part with the long and short flattened processes. In the present specimen, the G1 is typical in having the distal long process directed forward ( Fig. 15B View Fig ). Castro (2000) showed that the marginal armature of the processes becomes more complex in the specimens of larger sizes.

Distribution. The known localities are shown on the map by Castro (2000), from the Ryukyu Islands to Indonesian waters, Australia, and New Caledonia in the Pacific, and from the Andaman Islands to Madagascar and the Red Sea in the Indian Ocean. The recorded bathymetric depth is from 7 to 70 m. McNeill (1968) recorded the specimens dredged at the depth of 34–36 m, with thick Halimeda weed, off North Direction Island in the Great Barrier Reef. Castro (2000) wrote as ʺIt is an inhabitant of coarse-sand sediments (particularly those rich in the coralline alga, Halimeda ) that is associated with coral reefs.ʺ The specimen from the Palau Islands was also obtained together with coralline algae. New to the Palau Islands.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Palicidae

Genus

Palicoides

Loc

Palicoides whitei ( Miers, 1884 )

Shaga, I Bevin, Priya, K, Ramar, Selvakumar, Srinidhi, S, Mohan, G Chandra, Ranganathan, Sukanya, Moulvi, S M M & Mani, Bhuvaneswari 2023
2023
Loc

Palicoides whitei (Miers)

Moosa, M. K. & R. Serene 1981: 46
1981
Loc

Palicoides ternatensis Moosa and Serène, 1981 , p. 50

Moosa, M. K. & R. Serene 1981: 50
1981
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