Enriquea leviantennata ( Baba, 1988 )

Dong, Chao & Li, Xinzheng, 2010, First records of six galatheid species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from Chinese waters, Zootaxa 2343, pp. 31-44 : 38

Enriquea leviantennata ( Baba, 1988)

( Figs. 7–9 )

Munida leviantennata Baba, 1988: 111 , figs 41, 42; 12, fig. 5. — Macpherson, 1994: 491;1996: 395; 1997: 608; 1999: 419. — Davie, 2002: 64 (no record). — Macpherson, 2004: 263.

Enriquea leviantennata . — Baba, 2005: 72, fig. 24, 241. — Poore et al., 2008: 18. — Baba et al., 2008: 60 .

Material examined. South China Sea. 1 female, Cl 12.95 mm; 1 female, Cl 12.75 mm, MBM069833-2, CN7- 24, St. 6094, 19 °00’N, 112°30’E, 472 m, sand with granules, AT, 17 Feb. 1959; MBM 150200, 1 male, Cl 11.95mm; 1 female, Cl 10.15mm; Nansha Islands, St.14A, 480m, AT, 20 Apr. 1999.

Distribution. South China Sea; Fiji and Tonga; Moro Gulf off Zamboanga; Moluccas off W coast of Halmahera; Philippines; Indonesia; New Caledonia; Chesterfield Islands; Kei Islands; Arafura Sea; off Central Queensland; Wallis Islands; Vanuatu; SW Australia.

Remarks. The specimens agree basically with the descriptions and illustrations of Baba (1988, 2005) except the presence of a pair of anterior branchial spines on the carapace while there is no anterior branchial spine in the type. The following characters can be used to distinguish this species from those of the similar genus Munida : antennular basal article has no lateral spine proximal to distolateral spine; antennal peduncle is slender and articles 1 and 2 are spineless.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Enriquea leviantennata (Baba, 1988), MBM 069833 - 2, female. A, body, dorsal view; B, left cephalic region, showing antennular and antennal peduncles, ventral view; C, uropods and telson, dorsal view; D, sternal plastron; E, endopod of right third maxilliped, distal segments omitted, lateral view; F, left cheliped, dorsal view; G, left fourth pereiopod, lateral view. Scales = 1 mm.

FIGURE 8. Enriquea leviantennata (Baba, 1988), MBM 069833 - 2, female. A, dorsal view; B, ventral view.

FIGURE 9. Enriquea leviantennata (Baba, 1988), MBM 069833 - 2, female 1, female 2. A, carapace of female 1, dorsal view; B, carapace of female 2, dorsal view.