Bathymunida balssi Van Dam, 1838

Ahyong, Shane T., Taylor, Joanne & Mccallum, Anna W., 2013, New species and new records of deepwater munidid squat lobsters from north-western Australia: Onconida, Bathymunida, Crosnierita, Plesionida and Torbenella, Zootaxa 3734 (1), pp. 23-37 : 25

Bathymunida balssi Van Dam, 1838

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Bathymunida balssi Van Dam, 1938: 199 , fig. 4 [type locality: Ceram Sea, 118 m].—Baba & de Saint Laurent 1996: 449, fig. 7.—Baba 2005: 238.—Baba et al. 2008: 56.

Material examined. NMV J55274 , 1 male (cl 5.0 mm, pcl 4.3 mm), Lacepede L26 transect, 15°47.568–48.504'S, 121°03.504–02.886'E, 119– 111 m, beam trawl, SS05/2007/129 (acq. 017), 1 Jul 2007.

Colour in life ( Fig. 1A ). Cephalothorax and most of abdomen mottled white-cream and pale red-brown; cervical groove with two blue spots on each side. Abdominal somite 6 and tail-fan translucent white; anterior margin of uropodal protopod brown-red. Walking legs translucent with diffuse white banding.

Remarks. The specimen agrees well with published accounts (Van Dam 1838; Baba & de Saint Laurent 1996).

Distribution. Ceram Sea, New Caledonia and now from Western Australia; 110– 195 m.

Figures

FIGURE 1. A, Bathymunida balssi Van Dam, 1938, male, cl 5.0 mm, pcl 4.3 mm (NMV J 55274); B – C, Bathymunida dissimilis Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996, male, cl 5.4 mm, pcl 4.7 mm; male, cl 4.7 mm, pcl 4.0 mm (NMV J 56002); D – E, Plesionida aurelia sp. nov., male paratype, cl 10.1 mm, pcl 7.9 mm (NMV J 56423), female paratype, cl. 8.9 mm, pcl 6.9 mm (NMV J 56115). Photos: K. Gowlett-Holmes.