Processa zostericola Hayashi, 1975

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Processa zostericola Hayashi, 1975

Processa zostericola Hayashi, 1975: 137 , fig. 35.– Ledoyer, 1984: 43, fig. 21.—Kim et al., 2011: 266, fig. 3.

Material examined. Singapore: 1 ov. female (pocl 4.3), ZRC 2012.0977, Pulau Busing, fouling community, leg. J.B. Sigurdsson, 01.05.1987; 1 female (pocl 4.2), ZRC 2012.0978, Sultan Shoal, leg. R. Teo & T.M. Sin, 26.02.1994.

Colour pattern. Unknown.

Remarks. Johnson (1962) recorded the closely related P. australiensis Baker, 1907 from Halophyllum pools at Changi Beach, but the present material is assigned to P. zostericola on account of the stylocerite having no lateral tooth, an antennal spine being present and the presence of a blunt process on the basicerite (see Hayashi 1975). It is currently not clear if both species occur in Singapore or whether the material identified as P. australiensis in Johnson (1962), which is now in very poor condition, refers to the present species.

Ecology. The species typically lives in littoral seagrass beds (Hayashi 1975; Ledoyer 1984; Unsworth et al. 2007, 2010), the habitat from which the present specimens were obtained was not detailed.

Distribution. This species was previously only known with certainty from Japan (Hayashi 1975), Noumea (Ledoyer 1984), southern Sulawesi (Unsworth et al. 2007, 2010) and Korea (Kim et al. 2011) and is now newly recorded from Singapore.