Halicarcinus cookii ( Filhol, 1885 )

Poore, Gary C. B., Guinot, Danièle, Komai, Tomoyuki & Naruse, Tohru, 2016, Reappraisal of species attributed to Halicarcinus White, 1846 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) with diagnosis of four new genera and one new species from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4093 (4), pp. 480-514 : 487-488

Halicarcinus cookii ( Filhol, 1885)

( Fig. 1 a–c)

Hymenicus Cookii Filhol, 1885a: 44 .

Halicarcinus cookii— Richardson 1949a: 59, 66, 68, fig. 46. — Melrose 1975: 44–59, figs 16–24 (for complete synonymy). — Lucas 1980: 162. — Webber 2010: 226.

Material examined. Lectotype of Hymenicus cookii Filhol, 1885 , herein designated, New Zealand, Détroit de Cook (Cook Strait), MNHN IU- 2014 -7143 (B32572), (female, 6.1 mm).

Paralectotype. Same locality, MNHN IU- 2000 - 1100 (B 1100) (female, 5.3 mm, dry).

Other material. New Zealand, Wellington, NMV J7374 (10 males and females).

Distribution. Throughout New Zealand except its subantarctic islands ( Melrose 1975).

Remarks. Types of this New Zealand endemic were found at MNHN and a lectotype is selected herein.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Halicarcinus cookii (Filhol, 1885): a – c, lectotype of Hymenicus cookii Filhol, 1885, MNHN IU- 2014 - 7143 (B 32572), (female, 6.1 mm). Halicarcinus planatus (Fabricius, 1775): d, holotype of Elamena mexicana (H. Milne Edwards, 1853), MNHN IU- 2000 - 655 (B 655), (male, 7.3 mm). Halicarcinus quoyi (H. Milne Edwards, 1853): e, lectotype of Elamena quoyi H. Milne Edwards, 1853, MNHN- 2000 - 667 (B 667), (male without rostrum, 6.4 mm); f, paralectotype, MNHN- 2000 - 32609 (B 32609), (sex unknown, dry fragments).