Janetogalathea Baba & Wicksten, 1997

Arnes-Urgelles, Camila, Buglass, Salome, Ahyong, Shane T., Salinas-de-Leon, Pelayo, Wicksten, Mary K. & Marsh, Leigh, 2020, Arthropoda; Crustacea; Decapoda of deep-sea volcanic habitats of the Galapagos Marine Reserve, Tropical Eastern Pacific, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 54482-54482 : 54482

Janetogalathea Baba & Wicksten, 1997

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: CDF Volunteer; behavior: on seafloor; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Image only; associatedMedia: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1917/45600635422_79c52754ac_o.png; occurrenceID: H1443_225538_Janetogalathea_sp_inc_californiensis; Taxon: scientificNameID: urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:387304; scientificName: Janetogalathea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Malacostraca; order: Decapoda; family: Galatheidae; genus: Janetogalathea; scientificNameAuthorship: Baba & Wicksten, 1997; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location: locationID: MRGID8403; waterBody: Pacific Ocean; country: Ecuador; stateProvince: Galapagos; locality: Southeast ; verbatimLocality: Galapagos Platform; minimumDepthInMeters: 419; maximumDepthInMeters: 419; decimalLatitude: -0.3723; decimalLongitude: -90.816; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 15; Identification: identifiedBy: Shane Ahyong; dateIdentified: 2017; identificationRemarks: ID from imagery only; identificationQualifier: Janetogalatheacaliforniensis sp. inc.; Event: eventID: NA064; samplingProtocol: Remotely Operated Vehicles; eventDate: 07-05-15; eventTime: 10:55:38 PM; habitat: Volcanic Cone; Record Level: language: en; bibliographicCitation: WoRMS (2019). Janetogalathea Baba & Wicksten, 1997. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=387304 on 2019-08-23; institutionCode: CDF; collectionCode: Arthropoda; datasetName: Video transect framegrabs; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation

Notes

This crustacean looks much like J. californiensis ( Baba and Wicksten 1997). If so, it constitutes a major range extension, because previous records of the species are no further south than the Gulf of California, Mexico. To date, there is only one species known of Janetogalathea , but the animal in the photograph differs from those previously described, because of the slender fingers of the chelae, without spines. This might be a variant of J. californiensis or something undescribed. Fig. 9

Figures

Figure 9. Janetogalathea californiensis sp. inc.