Gonodactyloideus cracens Manning, 1984

Ahyong Kumejima, Shane T., 2012, Stomatopod Crustacea of the KUMEJIMA 2009 Expedition, Japan *, Zootaxa 3367, pp. 232-251 : 240

Gonodactyloideus cracens Manning, 1984 *#

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Gonodactyloideus cracens Manning, 1984: 83–86 , fig. 1 [type locality: Northwest Shelf, Western Australia, 19°50'S, 115°34'E]. — Moosa 1986: 379, fig. 3. — Ahyong 2001: 65, fig. 32; 2004: 3.

Material. RUMF-ZC-01276, 1 juvenile female (TL 13 mm), 26° 16.600 –16.399´N, 126° 53.336 –53.083´E, 157–166 m, trawl 26, 12 Nov 2009; RUMF-ZC-01254, 1 female (TL 38 mm), 26° 23.831 –23.590´N, 126° 45.685 –45.212´E, 95.5–123 m, blocks, rubble, fish, decapods, cnidarians, trawl 70, 19 Nov 2009.

Remarks. The juvenile female differs from the adult in having shorter, less pronounced accessory median carinae on the telson and a posterior spine only on the median carina. The small posterior spines on the accessory median and anterior submedian carinae of the telson characteristic of adult G. cracens are incipient in the juvenile. The eyes of the juvenile are slightly compressed dorsoventrally, approaching the adult condition.

Distribution. Northwestern Australia, the Philippines and now from Japan; 80– 166 m.