Rochinia carinata Griffin and Tranter, 1986

Forges, Bertrand Richer de & Poore, Gary C. B., 2008, Deep-sea majoid crabs of the genera Oxypleurodon and Rochinia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Epialtidae) mostly from the continental margin of Western Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, pp. 63-70 : 66

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https://doi.org/ 10.24199/j.mmv.2008.65.6

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scientific name

Rochinia carinata Griffin and Tranter, 1986
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Rochinia carinata Griffin and Tranter, 1986 View in CoL

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Rochinia carinata Griffin and Tranter, 1986a: 178 View in CoL , figs 56, 64e, f, pl. 12.— Ng and Richer de Forges, 2007: 62.

Rochinia sp. MoV 5136. — Poore et al., 2008: 56.

Material examined. Australia. WA. Off Barrow Island (21°00.24'S – 21°00.02'S, 114°22.52'E – 114°22.30'E), 399–408 m, 13 Dec 2005 (stn SS10/2005 172), NMV J53872 View Materials (1 male 28.2 x 20.7 mm). Off Ningaloo North (21°58.13'S – 21°58.45'S, 113°47.35'E – 113°47.28'E), 356– 324 m, 11 Dec 2005 (stn SS10/2005 157), NMV J53873 View Materials (1 female juvenile 14.2 x 9.9 mm). Off Red Bluff (23°59.12'S – 23°59.43'S, 112°32.02'E – 112°31.44'E), 411 m, 08 Dec 2005 (stn SS10/2005 130), NMV J54067 View Materials (1 juvenile 10.5 x 6.5 mm) GoogleMaps .

Remarks. Rochinia carinata was described from the Kei (Kai) Islands in Indonesia and has not been recorded anywhere else since. The specimens from the south-western Australian coast differ from the typical material from Indonesia ( Griffin and Tranter, 1986a: pl. 12). The merus of pereopods 2 and 3 is cylindrical in cross section vs carinate in the Indonesian specimens. The mesogastric plate (islet) looks more ovoid in R. carinata from Western Australia whereas it is more rounded in the typical material. The pseudorostrum spines are more elongated in the specimens from south-western Australia than in the specimens from Indonesia.

The species’ range is extended from 5°S in Indonesia to 24°S, near Shark Bay, WA. The depth range in Indonesia is 204–325 m and 324–411 m in WA .

NMV

Museum Victoria

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Epialtidae

Genus

Rochinia

Loc

Rochinia carinata Griffin and Tranter, 1986

Forges, Bertrand Richer de & Poore, Gary C. B. 2008
2008
Loc

Rochinia sp.

Poore, G. C. B. & McCallum, A. W. & Taylor, J. 2008: 56
2008
Loc

Rochinia carinata

Ng, P. K. L. & Richer de Forges, B. 2007: 62
Griffin, D. J. G. & Tranter, H. A. 1986: 178
1986
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