Lamoha murotoensis ( Sakai, 1979 )

Ng, Peter K. L. & Forges, Bertrand Richer de, 2017, On a collection of Homolidae from the South China Sea, with descriptions of two new species of Homologenus A. Milne-Edwards, in Henderson, 1888, and the identities of Homologenus malayensis Ihle, 1912, and Lamoha superciliosa (Wood-Mason, in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65, pp. 243-268 : 247

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Lamoha murotoensis ( Sakai, 1979) View in CoL

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Hypsophrys murotoensis Sakai, 1979: 6 . – Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1981: 541. – Miyake, 1983: 197. – Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995: 449.

Hypsophrys longipes – Matsuzawa, 1977: pl. 87, figs. 1, 2. – Sakai, 1977: 54.

Lamoha murotoensis View in CoL – Tan et al., 2000: 185. – Ng et al., 2001: 6. – Ng & Wang, 2002: 14. – Richer de Forges & Ng, 2008: 21. – Ahyong et al., 2009: 96.

Material examined. 1 ovigerous female (24.8 × 21.8 mm) ( ZRC 2009.0786 View Materials ), station P4, Balicasag, Panglao, Bohol, Visayas, Philippines, 9°31.1′N 123°41.5′E, coll. 31 May 2004. – 1 male (21.8 × 18.9 mm) ( ZRC 2001.2276 View Materials ) GoogleMaps , NE Taiwan, Ilan Province , Nangfangao, Shu-Ao, coll. J.-F. Huang, 3 July 1992. – 1 male (20.4 × 18.4 mm) ( ZRC 2016.0200 View Materials ) , station CP 4153, north of Macclesfield Bank , 16°13.94′N 114°27.21′E – 16°14.24′N 114°29.55′E, Taiwan, South China Sea, 318 m, sponge substrate with sea pens and echinoderms, trawl, coll. ZHONGSHA 2015 Cruise, 27 July 2015 GoogleMaps .

Colour. In life, the carapace, chelipeds and ambulatory legs are pink, with the stronger cristae and larger granules and spines on the carapace white ( Fig. 24B View Fig ) (see also Richer de Forges & Ng, 2007: fig. 8B; Ahyong et al., 2009: fig. 64).

Remarks. This distinctively coloured species is widely distributed from Japan to Madagascar ( Ahyong et al., 2009).

References

Ahyong ST, Naruse T, Tan SH & Ng PKL (2009) Part II. Infraorder Brachyura: Sections Dromiacea, Raninoida, Cyclodorippoida. In: Chan T-Y, Ng PKL, Ahyong ST & Tan SH (eds.) Crustacean Fauna of Taiwan: Brachyuran Crabs, Volume I. Pp. 27 - 180.

Guinot D & Richer de Forges B (1981) Homolidae, rares ou nouveaux de l'Indo-Pacifique (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, (4) 3 (A 2): 523 - 581.

Guinot D & Richer de Forges B (1995) Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura: Revision de la famille des Homolidae de Haan, 1839. In: Crosnier A (ed.) Resultats des campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 13. Memoires du Museum national d' Histoire naturelle, 163: 283 - 517.

Matsuzawa K (1977) Sea shore Animals of Muroto, Kochi Prefecture. Kansai-Insatsu-Kogyi, Japan, 13 pp, 126 pls.

Miyake S (1983) Brachyura (Crabs). Japanese crustacean decapods and stomatopods in color, II. First Edition. Hoikusha, Osaka, i - viii, 1 - 277, pls. 1 - 64, unnumbered fig. [In Japanese]

Ng PKL, Wang C-H, Ho P-H & Shih H-T (2001) An annotated checklist of brachyuran crabs from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda). National Taiwan Museum Special Publication Series, Taipei, Number 11: 1 - 86, 8 colour pls.

Ng PKL & Wang C-H (2002) Notes on two species of deep-water porter crabs of the genus Lamoha (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Homolidae) from the Pacific. Journal of the National Taiwan Museum, 2001, 54 (2): 13 - 24.

Richer de Forges B & Ng PKL (2007) New records and new species of Homolidae De Haan, 1839, from the Philippines and French Polynesia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 16: 29 - 45.

Richer De Forges B & Ng PKL (2008) New western Pacific records of Homolidae De Haan, 1839, with descriptions of new species of Homolochunia Doflein, 1904, and Latreillopsis Henderson, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Zootaxa, 1967: 1 - 35.

Sakai T (1977) Notes from the Carcinological Fauna of Japan. VII. Researches in Crustacea, 8: 54 - 60, figs. 1, 2, frontispiece, pl. 1.

Sakai T (1979) Description of three new species of crabs of the family Homolidae from Japan. Researches on Crustacea, 9: 1 - 8, 8 - 12, figs. 1 - 3, 1 frontispiece.

Tan SH, Huang J-F & Ng PKL (2000) The deep-water crabs of the families Homolidae and Latreilliidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Taiwan. In: Hwang J-S, Wang C-H & Chan T-Y (eds.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Marine Biology in Taiwan - Crustacean and Zooplankton Taxonomy, Ecology and Living Resources. National Taiwan Museum Special Publication Series, 10: 181 - 189.

Figures

Fig. 24. Colour in life, A–H from South China Sea; I, J from Papua New Guinea and Bismarck Sea. A, Lamoha longirostris (Chen, 1986), female (24.9 × 20.3 mm) (ZRC 2016.0555); B, Lamoha murotoensis (Sakai, 1979), male (20.8 × 18.4 mm) (ZRC 2016.0200); C, Paromola macrochira Sakai, 1961, female (16.5 × 11.4 mm) (ZRC 2016.0560); D, Paromola macrochira Sakai, 1961, female (16.3 × 11.1 mm) (ZRC 2016.0562); E, Moloha majora (Kubo, 1936), male (54.8 × 47.8 mm) (ZRC 2016.0197); F, Homolochunia gadaletae Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995, ovigerous female (34.1 × 26.4 mm) (ZRC 2016.0198); G, Homolomania sibogae Ihle, 1912, male (15.4 × 11.3 mm) (ZRC 2016.0199); H, Paromolopsis boasi Wood-Mason, in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891, male (20.1 × 17.7 mm) (ZRC 2016.0565); I, Homologenus malayensis Ihle, 1912, ovigerous female (16.0 × 13.9 mm) (MNHN-IU-2015-80); J, Homologenus malayensis Ihle, 1912, ovigerous female (14.9 × 9.9 mm) (MNHN-IU-2014-8052).