Puerulus mesodontus Chan, Ma & Chu, 2013

Wardiatno, Yusli, Hakim, Agus Alim, Mashar, Ali, Butet, Nurlisa Alias, Adrianto, Luky & Farajallah, Achmad, 2016, First record of Puerulusmesodontus Chan, Ma & Chu, 2013 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Achelata, Palinuridae) from south of Java, Indonesia, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 8069-8069 : 8069

Puerulus mesodontus Chan, Ma & Chu, 2013

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Yusli Wardiatno, Agus Alim Hakim, Ali Mashar, Nurlisa Alias Butet, Luky Adrianto, Achmad Farajallah; individualCount: 3; preparations: specimen stored in ethanol 96%; otherCatalogNumbers: PMP01, PMP02, PMP03; Taxon: scientificNameID: Puerulusmesodontus Chan, Ma & Chu, 2013; scientificName: Puerulusmesodontus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Malacostraca; order: Decapoda; family: Palinuridae; genus: Puerulus; specificEpithet: mesodontus; scientificNameAuthorship: Chan, Ma & Chu 2013; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; stateProvince: West Java; locality: Palabuhanratu Bay ; verbatimLocality: Palabuhanratu; maximumDepthInMeters: 20; Identification: identifiedBy: Agus Alim Hakim; dateIdentified: 2015-12-22; identificationRemarks: identified by morphology; identificationQualifier: cf.; Event: samplingProtocol: local fishing boat and net; eventDate: 2015-05-17; eventTime: unrecorded; habitat: sandy bottom; Record Level: language: ina; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

Body moderately pubescent. Carapace similar in length to abdominal somites I-V; surfaces mostly covered with spinules and sharp granules. Supraorbital horn just overreaching the eye and extending to a position approximating the basal one-third of the antennular plate; dorsal margin almost straight, and smooth; followed by a row of three regularly spaced teeth decreasing sharply in size posteriorly; third tooth always prominent. Eye more long than broad (Fig. 3a, b).Postorbital spinules well-developed. Two rows of cervical spines converging anteriorly into a well-developed median spine. Three gastric teeth; the first tooth generally smaller or the third tooth generally larger; sometimes all gastric teeth similar in size or occasionally the first tooth larger; the base of the third tooth less than 1.5-fold wider than the base of the first tooth; the third tooth distinctly distant from the two anterior teeth (Figure 3b). Pereopod V not chelate in males, but chelate in females (Fig. 3c, d). The merus of maxilliped III with an anterodorsal spine (Fig. 3e). The abdomen with a raised granular-to-lobular surface, but the granules not forming distinct rows (Fig. 3f).