Latreillopsis bispinosa Henderson, 1888

Arzivian, Arteen, Alrubaie, Ahmad, Yang, Jessica, Lin, Huiyu, Zhang, Eva & Leong, Rupert, 2022, Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Seas of East and Southeast Asia Collected by the RV Hakuhō Maru (KH- 72 - 1 Cruise) 4. South China Sea, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology 48 (4), pp. 147-191 : 151

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.50826/bnmnszool.48.4_147
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scientific name	Latreillopsis bispinosa Henderson, 1888
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Latreillopsis bispinosa Henderson, 1888 View in CoL

Material examined. RV Hakuhō Maru KH-72-1 cruise, sta. 48, 1 Ə ( CB 5.3 mm excluding hepatic tubercles, PCL 6.2 mm), 1 ovig.8 (6.6×8.0 mm), NSMT-Cr 30901.— Sta. 50, 1 ovig.8 (13.4× 15.5 mm), NSMT-Cr 30902.

Remarks. The genus Latreillopsis was extensively studied, with detailed notes, line drawings and photographs, by Guinot and Richer de Forges (1995), who recognized L. bispinosa Henderson, 1888 (and its new forma L. bispinosa f. trispinosa ), L. laciniata Sakai, 1936 , L. gracilipes Guinot and Richer de Forges, 1981 , L. tetraspinosa Dai and Chen, 1980 , and three new species, L. daviei , L. antennata and L. cornuta . Richer de Forges and Ng (2007) subsequently recorded L. bispinosa and L. tetraspinosa , with many specimens from the Philippines and described a new species, L. marivenae from the Philippines, Richer de Forges and Ng (2007) also recorded L. gracilipes from Vanuatu, and L. tetraspinosa from the Solomon Islands, and formally named L. trispinosa , a replacement name of the nomenclaturally incorrect L. bispinosa f. trispinosa Guinot and Richer de Forges, 1995 . Castro and Naruse (2014) described L. okala from Hawaii.

The present ovigerous female studied here was confirmed as L. bispinosa following the key and many photographs and detailed drawings given by Guinot and Richer de Forges (1995), and the figures and photograph by Ahyong et al. (2009). The most distinctive features are the unarmed pseudorostral spines and the subhepatic protuberance armed with two long spines instead of four spines in the most closely related species, L. tetraspinosa Dai and Chen, 1980 .

Distribution. Japan, Taiwan, South China Sea, and the Philippines, 20–350 m in depth. Chen and Xu (1991) recorded this species from the Nansha Islands in the South China Sea, at 185 m depth.