Albunea symmysta ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Boyko, Christopher B., 2020, Fig. 4 in Striatoandricus sanchezi Cuesta-Porta & Melika & Nicholls & Stone & Pujade-Villar 2022, n. sp., Zoological Studies 59 (15), pp. 1-16 : 4

Albunea symmysta ( Linnaeus, 1758) ( Fig. 1B )

Albunea symnista [sic] – Komai 2000: 368 [list]; Subramonian and Gunamalai 2003: 112, 121, 126, 146 [mention]; Desantis et al. 2006: 48 [mention]; González-Acuña et al. 2009: 31 [mention]; Gallo and Costantini 2012: 2870 [mention]; Kumar et al. 2015: 89, 93 [ India, as stomach contents of fish]; Lützen et al. 2016: 204 [mention as host of Sacculina anceps Boschma, 1931 ]; Niksirat and Kouba 2016: 449 [mention]; Tomas et al. 2019: 24 [mention].

Albunea symmysta – Boyko 2002: 3, 68, 229, 230, 253, 274, 295, 303–313, 320, 373, 393, 395, figs. 2D (part), 98, 99 [full synonymy]; Osawa and Fujita 2007: 128, 136, fig. 5A, B [ India];

Boyko 2010: 56–57 [ Madagascar, India]; Boyko and McLauglin 2010: 141 [list]; Dev Roy and Mitra 2010: 188 [mention]; Osawa et al. 2010: 8, 9, 19–21, fig. 11 [ Taiwan]; Keiler and Richter 2011: 345, 347, 353, figs. 1C.VI, 1D.IV, 6B [grooming leg setae study]; Darusman et al. 2015: 15 [mention]; Srinivasan et al. 2012: 60–63 [ India, lipid content studied]; Hegde et al. 2013: 900 [ India]; Mashar and Wardiatno, 2013: 33 [mention]; Mashar et al. 2014: 228–231 [ Indonesia]; Siangcham et al. 2015: 2 [mention]; Mashar et al. 2015: 611–614, figs. 2, 3 [ Indonesia]; Bhagawati et al. 2016a: 556, 557, 559, 560, 562, figs. 2A, 3 [ Indonesia]; Bhagawati et al. 2016b: 226, 227, 229, figs. 6, 7, 8B [ Indonesia]; Edritanti et al. 2016: 164 [mention]; Mahsar and Wardiatno 2016: 212 [mention]; Wardiatno et al. 2016a: 5 [mention]; Wardiatno et al. 2016b: 17 [mention]; Wardiatno et al. 2016c: 135–139 [ Indonesia]; Dev Roy and Rath 2017: 88 [ India; list]; Fujita et al. 2017: 1, 2 [mention]; Koedprang et al. 2017: 15 [mention]; Pramithasari et al. 2017: 103–111, fig. 1 [ Indonesia]; Reshmi et al. 2017: 225, 227, fig. 2 [ India]; Kumar et al. 2018: 1496, 1499, 1502 [mention]; Nugraha et al. 2018: 56, 62–64, 66 [ Indonesia]; Dewi et al. 2019: 387–389 [ Indonesia]; Hartoko et al. 2019: 523, 528, 530–532, 535, 536, fig. 2 (part) [ Indonesia]; Wisespongpand et al. 2019: 699–700 [ Indonesia].

? Albunea symnista – Kakuda et al. 2002: 261, 269 [ Japan, as dolphin stomach contents].

? Albunea aff. symmysta – Osawa and Fujita 2012: 248–250, fig. 2 [ Japan].

Material examined: 1 female (19.0 mm CL × 18.5 mm CW), Mayacabac, Panglao Island, Bohol Province, Philippines, stn. M51, intertidal (0 m), sand and seagrass, 9°36.8'N, 123°52.2'E, coll. Panglao 2004 Expedition, 30 June 2004 ( ZRC 2016.0114).

Range: From the east coast of India throughout southeast Asia to the Philippines and Indonesia as far east as Java, at up to 151.5 m deep; also from Taiwan, Queensland and Lord Howe Island, Australia ( Boyko 2002; Osawa et al. 2010); questionably from Madagascar (Boyko 2010).

Remarks: This species has been previously reported from the Philippines (e.g., Boyko 2002). The records of Kakuda et al. (2002) and Osawa and Fujita (2012) may refer to the same taxon, but it is not clear that it is A. symmysta sensu stricto, as the occurrence of A. symmysta has not been verified in Japan.

Figures

Fig. 1. A, Albunea microps Miers, 1878, male, CL unknown (fragmented when examined) (ZRC 2016.0115). B, Albunea symmysta (Linnaeus, 1758), female, 19.0 mm CL (ZRC 2016.0114). Photographs courtesy of Tin-Yam Chan.