Enosteoides melissa ( Miyake, 1942 )

Osawa, Masayuki, 2007, Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands, Zootaxa 1548, pp. 1-49 : 9-11

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Enosteoides melissa ( Miyake, 1942) View in CoL

( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 A–C)

Porcellana melissa Miyake, 1942: 364 View in CoL , text-figs. 25, 26, pl. I, text-fig. 4 (type locality: Palau); 1943: 131, fig. 52.— Nakasone & Miyake, 1968c: 168, fig. 2, pl. 7, fig. B.— Haig, 1966a: 44.

Enosteoides melissa View in CoL .— Haig, 1981a: 271; 1983: 285; 1989: 95.

Material examined. Type Material: Palau. Off Ngatmél, Babldáob Island, coll. S. Murakami, 14 Mar. 1938, female CL 8.1 mm, holotype ( ZLKU 4265).

New Caledonia. N/ O "Alis" Campagne SURPRISES, St. DW1390, 18°27.5’S, 163°08.7’E, 38 m, 0 9 May 1999, coll. B. Richerde Forges-IRD, 1 male CL 6.4 mm.

Loyalty Islands. Lifou Island. Santal Bay. Atelier LIFOU. St. 1463 (St. 21), Gaatcha Bay, 20°55.05’S, 167°03.35’E, 20–30 m, 10 Nov. 2000, 1 male CL 2.8 mm.

Remarks. The specimens examined from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands differ from the holotype of E. melissa in having a comparatively broader carapace ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 A) and stouter first ambulatory legs ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 B). The New Caledonian specimen also lacks a fringe of plumose setae and a row of small spines and denticles on the extensor margin of each chela ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 C), which are observed in the holotype. These distinctions are presently regarded as intraspecific variations. More material from the same localities as well as other areas of the Indo-West Pacific is needed to determine the status of the present specimens.

Distribution. Zanzibar, Madagascar, Seychelles, Philippine Islands, and Palau; littoral to 110 m; sand and corals ( Haig 1981b, 1989). The present record of the species from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands greatly extends its distribution to the southwestern Pacific.

References

Haig, J. (1966 a) Sur une collection de Crustaces Porcellanes (Anomura: Porcellanidae) de Madagascar et des Comores. Cahiers O. R. S. T. O. M., serie Oceanographie, 3, 39 - 50.

Haig, J. (1981 a) Three new species of Petrolisthes (Decapoda, Anomura, Porcellanidae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 1, 265 - 271.

Haig, J. (1981 b) Porcellanid crabs from the Indo-West Pacific, Part II. Steenstrupia, 7, 269 - 291.

Haig, J. (1989) Porcellanidae (Decapoda, Anomura) collected during MUSORSTOM 1 and 2. In: Forest, J. (Ed.), Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 5. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, section A, 144, 93 - 101.

Miyake, S. (1942) Studies on the decapod crustaceans of Micronsia. III. Porcellanidae. The Palau Tropical Biological Station Studies, 2, 329 - 379.

Nakasone, Y. & Miyake, S. (1968 c) A new species of Porcellana (Anomura: Porcellanidae) from the Palau Islands, with description of its related form. OHMU (Occasional Papers of Zoological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan), 1, 165 - 171, pl. 7.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Enosteoides melissa (Miyake, 1942), male, CL 6.4 mm, New Caledonia, Campagne SURPRISES, St. DW 1390 (A – C); Capilliporcellana sp., female, CL 7.6 mm, New Caledonia, Ouen Island (D – F). A, D, carapace, and ocular and antennal peduncles, dorsal view; B, right cheliped, dorsal view; C, left first ambulatory leg, lateral view (setae on merus drawn as simplified); E, left cheliped, dorsal view; F, right first ambulatory leg, lateral view (setae drawn as simplified). Scales equal 1.0 mm.