Ocypode ceratophthalmus (Pallas, 1772)

Lagare, Nickel Jean S., Mapi-Ot, Emmarie F., Molina, Ziljih S., Neri, Jemateo B., Nuñeza, Olga M. & Mendoza, Jose Christopher E., 2020, On a collection of freshwater and estuarine crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Mindanao Island, the Philippines, Zootaxa 4868 (3), pp. 301-330 : 319

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4868.3.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4443632

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scientific name

Ocypode ceratophthalmus (Pallas, 1772)
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Ocypode ceratophthalmus (Pallas, 1772) View in CoL

Fig. 5H View FIGURE 5

Ocypoda ceratophthalma, Miers 1886: 238 View in CoL .— Tesch 1918a: 36.

Ocypode ceratophthalma, Ortman 1894: 767 View in CoL .— Estampador 1937: 542; 1959: 99.— Manuel et al. 1991:82.—Sakai & Türkay 2013: 685.

Ocypode ceratophthalmus, de Elera 1895: 544 View in CoL .

Material examined. 5 males, 29.8 by 25.7 mm—33.5 by 29.7 mm, 1 female, 22.8 by 19.0 mm ( ZRC), Bgy. Poblacion, Manukan, Zamboanga del Norte prov., coll. J.B. Neri, 17 Nov. 2017 .

Remarks. Ocypode ceratophthalmus (Pallas, 1772) is a widespread Indo-West Pacific species of ghost crab, ranging from the eastern coast of Africa to the Hawaiian Islands and French Polynesia (Sakai & Türkay 2013). It is one of several species of Ocypode wherein the eyes have a distal corneous extension (stylus), although it can be distinguished from such congeners by the pattern of stridulatory ridges & tubercles on the inner surface of the palm of the major chela (viz. 10–11 interspaced tubercles in dorsal third, 8 thick striae in middle third, and 20–30 closely spaced striae in ventral third), the pointed fingertips of the minor chela, and the unique morphology of the G1 (Sakai & Türkay 2013: 679 (key), figs. 1D–I, 10, 32). In the Philippines, this species has been reported from several localities (see Table 1). The present material ( Fig. 5H View FIGURE 5 ) from Manukan agrees well with the published descriptions of this species.

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Ocypodidae

Genus

Ocypode

Loc

Ocypode ceratophthalmus (Pallas, 1772)

Lagare, Nickel Jean S., Mapi-Ot, Emmarie F., Molina, Ziljih S., Neri, Jemateo B., Nuñeza, Olga M. & Mendoza, Jose Christopher E. 2020
2020
Loc

Ocypode ceratophthalma

Estampador, E. 1959: 99
Estampador E. 1937: 542
1937
Loc

Ocypode ceratophthalmus

Elera, C. de 1895: 544
1895
Loc

Ocypoda ceratophthalma

Tesch, J. J. 1918: 36
Miers, E. J. 1886: 238
1886
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