Goniopugettia sagamiensis ( Gordon, 1930 )

Lee, Bee Yan, Forges, Bertrand Richer De & Ng, Peter K. L., 2017, Deep-sea spider crabs of the families Epialtidae MacLeay, 1838 and Inachidae MacLeay, 1838, from the South China Sea, with descriptions of two new species (Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea), European Journal of Taxonomy 358, pp. 1-37 : 3-4

Goniopugettia sagamiensis ( Gordon, 1930)

Fig. 1 A–B

Pugettia brevirostris Parisi, 1915: 287–289 , text-fig. 2, pl. 7 fig.1 [not Hyastenus brevirostris Doflein, 1906 = Rochina brevirostris (Doflein, 1904) ].

Pugettia sagamiensis Gordon, 1930: 520 (list), 521 (type locality: Sagami Bay, Japan).

Pugettia sagamiensis – Gordon 1931: 557, 558, text-figs 35, 36c. — Sakai 1935: 87, 88, fig. 36; 1938: 253 (key), 253–254, pl. 25 fig. 3; 1965: 73, 74, pl. 33 fig. 2; 1976: 194 (key), 195, pl. 69 fig. 2. — Takeda 1982: 120, un-numbered text-fig. — Miyake 1983: 36, pl. 12 fig. 4. — Baba et al. 1986: 225, 313, pl. 169. — Ikeda 1998: 34, pl. 36.

Rochinia sagamiensis – Griffin & Tranter 1986 a: 176 (key), 187, fig. 62g–h. — Takeda 1997: 242, pl. 1 fig. E; 2001: 242, 251 (table), 255 (table), 259 (table). — Takeda & Kubodera 1998: 217–218. — Huang & Hsueh 1998: 224, fig. 1E–H.

Goniopugettia sagamiensis – Sakai 1986: 1, frontispiece fig. 4, pl. 1 figs 1–6. — Miyake 1991: 36, pl. 12 fig. 4. — Ng et al. 2001: 13. — Ng et al. 2008: 103 (list). — Wang et al. 2013: 513 (table).

Material examined

SOUTH CHINA SEA: 1 ♀ (41.8 × 30.1 mm) ( ZRC 2016.0064), Dongsha, stn CP 4120, 22°12.98′ N, 120°24.69′ E to 22°13.11′ N, 120°22.53′ E, 327–372 m, coll. DONGSHA 2014 Expedition, 29 Apr. 2014.

Remarks

The species was first briefly described as Pugettia sagamiensis by Gordon (1930), followed by a more detailed description by Gordon (1931). This species was transferred to Goniopugettia by Sakai (1986). In the same year, however, Griffin & Tranter published a large revision on all the Indo-West Pacific Majoidea and placed this species in Rochinia ( Griffin & Tranter 1986a: 187) . Ng et al. (2001) was the next to recognise Goniopugettia and used this name for the Taiwanese material.

Distribution

This species is known from Japan ( Sakai 1965; 1986) and Taiwan ( Ng et al. 2001; Wang et al. 2013). The specimen caught during the DONGSHA cruise within the South China Sea is the most southern known record.

Figures

Fig. 1. Goniopugettia sagamiensis (Gordon, 1930), ♀ (41.8 × 30.1 mm) (ZRC 2016.0064), South China Sea with carapace half cleaned, left side of carapace with zootharian attached. A. Overall dorsal view. B. Lateral view of carapace. Scale bars = 10 mm.