Neosarmatium asiaticum Ragionieri, Fratini & Schubart, 2012

Lagare, Nickel Jean S., Mapi-Ot, Emmarie F., Molina, Ziljih S., Neri, Jemateo B., Nuñeza, Olga M. & Mendoza, Jose Christopher E., 2020, On a collection of freshwater and estuarine crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Mindanao Island, the Philippines, Zootaxa 4868 (3), pp. 301-330 : 308

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4868.3.1

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9C2F00BA-3400-4FB6-ABC2-0525B5E64696

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4443590

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scientific name

Neosarmatium asiaticum Ragionieri, Fratini & Schubart, 2012
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Neosarmatium asiaticum Ragionieri, Fratini & Schubart, 2012 View in CoL

Fig. 3A View FIGURE 3

Sesarma meinerti, Bürger 1893: 617 View in CoL .— Estampador 1937: 538; 1959: 95. Not Neosarmatium meinerti (De Man, 1887) View in CoL . Sesarma (Sarmatium) meinerti, De Man 1929 View in CoL : fig. 4. Not Neosarmatium meinerti (De Man, 1887) View in CoL .

Neosarmatium asiaticum Ragioneri et al. 2012: 82 View in CoL , tab. 1.

Material examined. 4 males, 34.7 by 28.5 mm—37.5 by 30.5 mm, 1 female, 22.8 by 19 mm ( ZRC; JBN170401–05 View Materials ), Brgy. Poblacion, Manukan town , Zamboanga del Norte prov., coll. J. B. Neri , 17 Nov. , 2017 ; 1 male, 37.0 by 30.0 mm, ( ZRC; JBN170502 View Materials ), Brgy. Bantayan, Sindangan town , Zamboanga del Norte prov., coll. J.B. Neri, 5 Sep. 2017 .

Remarks. Ragioneri et al. (2012) revised the Neosarmatium meinerti (De Man, 1887) species complex, and restricted N. meinerti (type locality: Mauritius) to the islands of the western Indian Ocean while recognizing & describing three new species: viz. N. africanum (type locality: Somalia), which is distributed along the eastern coast of Africa and northwestern Madagascar, N. asiaticum (type locality: Tainan, Taiwan), which is distributed in the eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean; and N. australiense (type locality: Darwin, Australia), which is only found in northwestern Australia.

The species found in the Philippines is N. asiaticum , which has been reported as Sesarma meinerti from the islands of Bohol ( Bürger 1893; Estampador 1937, 1959) and Jolo (De Man 1929). The present material from Mindanao agrees well with the description and illustrations in Ragioneri et al. (2012), including the live colouration, wherein the chelipeds are light yellow, the carapace is brownish with a thin yellow margin on the anterolateral and supraorbital margins, and the ambulatory legs are reddish-ornage. The crabs were found in muddy burrows and some under dead palm branches in mangrove swamps during the day; and were observed to be in the same habitat with the land crab, Cardisoma carnifex , and sesarmids such as Neosarmatium fourmanoiri and Tiomanium indicum (see below).

New Mindanao record.

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

InfraOrder

Brachyura

SuperFamily

Grapsoidea

Family

Sesarmidae

Genus

Neosarmatium

Loc

Neosarmatium asiaticum Ragionieri, Fratini & Schubart, 2012

Lagare, Nickel Jean S., Mapi-Ot, Emmarie F., Molina, Ziljih S., Neri, Jemateo B., Nuñeza, Olga M. & Mendoza, Jose Christopher E. 2020
2020
Loc

Sesarma meinerti, Bürger 1893: 617

Estampador, E. 1959: 95
Estampador E. 1937: 538
Burger, O. 1893: 617
1893
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