Austruca sindensis ( Alcock, 1900 )

Shih, Hsi-Te, Prema, Mani, Kumar, Austin Anand Jeya, Saher, Noor Us, Ravichandran, Samuthirapandian, Odhano, Sahir & Paulay, Gustav, 2022, Fig. 9 in Fig. 1 in Fig. 20. A-E in Establishment of A New Bornean Genus of Gecarcinucidae (Crustacea: Brachyura), with Descriptions of Five New Species., Zoological Studies 61 (65), pp. 1-18 : 8

Austruca sindensis ( Alcock, 1900) ( Fig. 2G, H )

Gelasimus inversus var. sindensis Alcock 1900: 356 (type locality: Karachi, Pakistan).

Uca (Amphiuca) inversa sindensis – Crane 1975: 107, 599, figs. 69j, pl. 16E–H.

Uca sindensis – Collins et al. 1984: 318, figs. 2, 3a–e, h, 4a, b, f, h; Apel and Türkay 1999: 134; Mokhlesi et al. 2011: 245; Saher and Qureshi 2012: 124; Naderloo et al. 2013: 450; Shih et al. 2013: 643; Beleem et al. 2014: 422; Saher et al. 2014: 672.

Uca (Paraleptuca) sindensis – Ng et al. 2008: 241; Naser et al. 2010: e87 (pp. 1, 2), fig 2; Naderloo and Türkay 2012: 54; Naderloo et al. 2015: 409; Trivedi et al. 2015: 27.

Austruca sindensis – Shih et al. 2016: 153, 168, fig 8G; Naderloo 2017: 414, figs. 37.12, 37.13c; Odhano et al. 2018: 313; Trivedi et al. 2018: 54; Beleem et al. 2019: 15; Sasaki 2019: 12439; Pati et al. 2022: 528.

Austruca (Sinduca) sindensis – Rosenberg 2019: 734.

Material examined: Iraq: 2 òò (16.1 mm, broken) ( ZRC 2010.0103), Khur Al-Zubair. Iran: 1 ñ (12.9 mm) (NCHUZOOL 15092), Qeshm I. Hormozgan, coll. Jun. 2008; 1 ò (16.3 mm), 3 ññ (10.8–11.7 mm) (NCHUZOOL 13576), Qeshm I. Hormozgan, coll. E. Kamrani, Jul. 2008; 11 òò (6.9–12.3 mm) (NCHUZOOL 13645), Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan, coll. E. Kamrani, 3 Feb. 2013. Pakistan: 2 òò (12.1–12.9 mm), 2 ññ (9.3–11.2 mm) (NCHUZOOL 13643), Sonmiani, Balochistan, coll. N. U. Saher, 14 May 2012; 8 òò (9.2–12.0 mm) (NCHUZOOL 13644), Sonmiani, Balochistan, coll. N. U. Saher, 9 Feb. 2013; 2 òò (18.7–19.0 mm), 2 ññ (14.3–15.8 mm) (NCHUZOOL 13641), Sandspit, Karachi, Sindh, coll. N. U. Saher, 14 May 2012; 9 òò (10.2–17.4 mm) (NCHUZOOL 13642), Sandspit, Karachi, Sindh, coll. N. U. Saher, 6 Mar. 2013.

Distribution: Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and western India.

Remarks: Austruca sindensis was described from Karachi, Pakistan ( Alcock 1900) and later reported from adjacent areas, including Kuwait, Iraq, Iran and western India ( Shih et al. 2015; Trivedi et al. 2018; Beleem et al. 2019). There are no records of this species from the southern coasts of the Arabian/Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman ( Naderloo 2017).

Figures

Fig. 2. Dorsal view of carapace and frontal view of major cheliped. Austruca albimana (A, B, NCHUZOOL 13242, CW 15.2 mm, Egypt); A. annulipes (C, NCHUZOOL 13642, CW 17.4 mm, Pakistan; D, NCHUZOOL 15088, CW 19.4 mm, Pakistan); A. iranica (E, F, NCHUZOOL 15090, CW 16.4 mm, Iran); A. sindensis (G, H, NCHUZOOL 13642, CW 17.4 mm, Pakistan).