Sphenomerides trapezioides (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)

Silambarasan, Krishnan, Kar, Annada Bhusan, Prasad, Gummadi Venkata Ankineedu, Pattnayak, Sujit Kumar, Das, Pratyush, Reddy, Dwarampudi Bhami & Ramalingam, Lakshmana Perumal, 2023, On some commensal anomuran and brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) off Visakhapatnam, Northwestern Bay of Bengal, Zootaxa 5325 (4), pp. 541-555 : 550

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Sphenomerides trapezioides View in CoL (Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891)

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Sphenomerus trapezioides Wood-Mason, 1891: 263 View in CoL .—Wood-Mason, 1892b, pl. 5, fig. 2.— Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891, p. 263.— Alcock, 1898: 228.— Rao, 2010: 198.

Sphenomerides trapezioides View in CoL .— Alcock, 1899a: 66.— Alcock & Anderson, 1899: 5.— Castro et al., 2004: 60, pl. 4E.— Ng et al., 2008: 185.— Dev Roy & Nandi, 2012: 207.— Huys et al., 2014: 15.— Trivedi et al., 2018: 74.

Material examined. FSI/ CRUST: 236, 1 male (CL 15.0 mm, CW 9.0 mm), 17°57.9’N, 83°53.5’E, 48–49 m, on Antipathes sp. , coll. K. Silambarasan, 15 December 2019 GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Madagascar, Sulu, Moluccas, Banda Sea ( Castro et al. 2004), Andaman and Nicobar Islands ( Trivedi et al. 2018). The present record from Visakhapatnam is the first report from off mainland India.

Commensalism. According to Castro (2013), the hosts are deep sea sponges. Our specimen was collected from the soft tree coral, Antipathes sp. , from Visakhapatnam waters, probably the first report of its association with corals.

Remarks. The single specimen of this widespread species presents an interesting new record from the mainland coast of India.

References

Alcock, A. (1898) Materials for the carcinological fauna of India, No. 3, The Brachyura Cyclometopa, part 1. The family Xanthidae. Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal, 67 (1), 67 - 233.

Alcock, A. (1899 a) An Account of the Deep-Sea Brachyura collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator. Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, iv + 85 pp., index, pls. I - IV. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 10330

Alcock, A. & Anderson, A. R. S. (1899) Natural history notes from H. M. Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator, Commander T. H. Heming, R. N., commanding. Series III. No. 2. An account of the deep-sea Crustacea dredged during the surveying-season of 1897 - 98. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, (13), 1 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939908678071

Castro, P., Ng, P. K. L. & Ahyong, S. T. (2004) Phylogeny and systematics of the Trapeziidae Miers, 1886 (Crustacea: Brachyura), with the description of a new family. Zootaxa, 643 (1), 1 - 70. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 643.1.1

Castro, P. (2013) Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Brachyura: Crossotonotidae, Ethusidae, Euryplacidae, Goneplacidae, Latreilliidae, Palicidae, Tetraliidae, Trapeziidae) of the Mainbaza, Miriki, and Atimo Vatae expeditions to the Mozambique Channel and Madagascar. In: Ahyong, S. T., Chan, T. - Y., Corbari, L. & Ng, P. K. L. (Eds.), Tropical deep sea benthos. Vol. 27. Memories of Museum Natural History, Paris, 204, pp. 437 - 466.

Dev Roy, M. K. & Nandi, N. C. (2012) Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea). In: Fauna of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, State Fauna Series, 19 (1). Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 185 - 236.

Huys, R., Low, M. Y., De Grave, S., Ng, P. K. L. & Clark, P. F. (2014) On two reports associated with James Wood-Mason and Alfred William Alcock published by the Indian Museum and the Indian Marine Survey between 1890 and 1891: implications for malacostracan nomenclature. Zootaxa, 3757 (1), 1 - 78. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3757.1.1

Ng, P. K. L., Guinot, D. & Davie, P. J. F. (2008) Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 17, 1 - 286.

Rao, D. V. (2010) Field Guide to Coral and Coral Associates of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 283 pp.

Trivedi, J. N., Trivedi, D. J., Vachhrajani, K. D. & Ng, P. K. L. (2018) An annotated checklist of the marine brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) of India. Zootaxa, 4502 (1), 1 - 83. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4502.1.1

Wood-Mason, J. & Alcock, A. (1891) Natural history notes from H. M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer Investigator, Commander R. F. Hoskyn, R. N., commanding. No. 21. On the Results of the last Season's Deep-sea Dredging. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 7 (37), 1 - 19. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939109460573

Figures

FIGURE 4. Brachyura associated with cnidarians collected from northwestern Bay of Bengal:A, Quadrella maculosa Alcock, 1898; B, Quadrella coronata Dana, 1852; C, Sphenomerides trapezioides (Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891); D, Dorippoides facchino (Herbst, 1785).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
InfraOrder	Brachyura
Family	Trapeziidae
Genus	Sphenomerides

Sphenomerides trapezioides

Silambarasan, Krishnan, Kar, Annada Bhusan, Prasad, Gummadi Venkata Ankineedu, Pattnayak, Sujit Kumar, Das, Pratyush, Reddy, Dwarampudi Bhami & Ramalingam, Lakshmana Perumal 2023

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