Polydectus cupulifer

Mendoza, Jose Christopher E. & Ng, Peter K. L., 2011, The Polydectinae Dana, 1851, of the Philippines, with description of a new genus for Lybia hatagumoana Sakai, 1961 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae), Zootaxa 3052, pp. 51-61 : 54

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Polydectus cupulifer View in CoL (Latreille, in Milbert, 1812)

( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 B)

Cancer cupulifer Latreille , in Milbert, 1812: 273 (type locality: Île de France = Mauritius).

Pilumnus cupulifer — Latreille 1825: 124.

Polydectus cupulifer View in CoL —H. Milne Edwards 1837: 146, pl. 14 fig. 4. — Rathbun 1906: 866. — Klunzinger 1913: 281 (185), pl. 7 fig. 8. — Verrill 1928: 18, pl. 4 fig. A, pl. 5 fig. A. — Balss 1934: 513. — Edmondson 1946: 33, 301; 1962: 216, 217, 304, figs. 32c, 34a, b. — Tweedie, 1950: 125. — Tinker, 1965: 118, pl. 47. — Sakai 1967: 78; 1976: 505, pl. 79 fig. 2. — Guinot 1967: 268; 1976: 65, figs. 15A–G, 17A, 18A, 19A, 20A–D, pl. 2 figs. 8–11. — Serène 1968: 88; 1984: 24, fig. 1, pl. 1 fig. A. — Guinot et al. 1995: fig. 3B. — Hoover 2006: 39, 282, color photograph. — Chen & Hsueh 2007: 412, fig. 1A–C. — Ng et al. 2008: 201 (list). — Castro 2011: 101.

Polydectus villosus Dana, 1852a: 81 View in CoL ; 1852b: 227; 1855: pl. 13 fig. 3a–e.

Material examined. 1 female, 16.1 × 13.3 mm ( ZRC 2011.0768), stn P4, Balicasag Is., PANGLAO 2004, May– Jun. 2004.

Remarks. This species, originally described from Mauritius, has been widely recorded across the Indo-West Pacific region ( Guinot 1976). The sole specimen from Balicasag ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 B) is easily recognizable in its morphology (densely pilose carapace and pereopods, infraorbital and exorbital margins with cupuliform tubercles, and long slender cheliped fingers with robust, spiniform teeth) which agrees well with the description and illustrations in Guinot (1976: 65, figs. 15A–G, 17A, 18A, 19A, 20A–D, pl. 2 fig. 8–11), Serène (1984: 24, fig. 1, pl. 1 fig. A) and Chen & Hsueh (2007: 412, fig. 1A–C). The specimen was observed to carry a single actinian in its right cheliped, which was preserved together with the crab.

References

Balss, H. (1934) Sur quelques Decapodes Brachyoures de Madagascar. In: A. Gruvel (Ed.). Contribution a l'etude des Crustaces de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, 5 (8) No. 31, 505 - 528, 1 pl.

Castro, P. (2011) Catalog of the anomuran and brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) of the Hawaiian Islands. Zootaxa, 2947, 1 - 154.

Chen, S. Y., Hsueh, P. W. (2007) Polydectus cupulifer (Latreille, 1812) (Decapoda, Xanthidae): First record from Taiwan. Crustaceana, 80 (4), 411 - 415.

Dana, J. D. (1852 a) Conspectus Crustaceorum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione lexit et descripsit. Conspectus of the Crustacea of the Exploring Expedition under Capt. Wilkes U. S. N., including the Crustacea Cancroidea Corystoidea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 6, 73 - 86.

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Guinot, D. (1976) Constitution de quelques groupes naturels chez les Crustaces Decapodes Brachyoures. I. La superfamille des Bellioidea et trois sous-familles de Xanthidae (Polydectinae Dana, Trichiinae de Haan, Actaeinae Alcock). Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Ser. A, Zoologie, 97, 1 - 308, pls. 1 - 19.

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Latreille, P. A. (1825) Familles naturelles du regne animal, exposees succinctement et dans un ordre analytique, avec l'indication de leurs genres. 2 e ed. Bailliere, Paris. 570 pp. [Decapodes Brachyures, 267 - 273].

Milne Edwards, H. (1837) Crustaces. In: Cuvier, G. (Ed.). Le Regne Animal distribue d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparee, ed. 4, Paris, 17, 1 - 278; 18, Atlas, pls. 1 - 80.

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Sakai, T. (1967) Notes from the Carcinological Fauna of Japan (III). Researches on Crustacea (Tokyo), 3, 68 - 73 (in Japanese), 74 - 83 (in English), 1 frontisp.

Serene, R. (1968) The Brachyura of the Indo-west Pacific region. In: Prodromus for a Check List of the (non-planctonic) Marine Fauna of South East Asia. UNESCO, Singapore, Special Publication No. 1, Fauna IIICc 3, 33 - 112 (Mimeographed).

Serene, R. (1984) Crustaces Decapodes Brachyoures de l'ocean Indien occidental et de la mer Rouge. Xanthoidea: Xanthidae et Trapeziidae. Avec un addendum par A. Crosnier: Carpiliidae et Menippidae. Faune tropicale, 24, 1 - 400, pls. 1 - 48.

Tinker, S. W. (1965) Pacific Crustacea. An Illustrated Handbook on the Reef-Dwelling Crustacea of Hawaii and the South Seas. Charles E. Tuttle, Rutland, VT & Tokyo, 134 pp.

Tweedie (1950) The fauna of the Cocos-Keeling Islands, Brachyura and Stomatopoda. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, 22, 105 - 148.

Verrill, A. E. (1928) Hawaiian shallow water Anthozoa. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin, 49, 1 - 30.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Live colouration of Philippine Polydectinae species. A, Lybia leptochelis (Zehntner, 1894), male, 6.2 × 5.8 mm (ZRC 2011.0762), Pamilacan; B, Polydectus cupulifer (Latreille in Milbert, 1812), female, 16.1 × 13.3 mm (ZRC 2011.0768), Balicasag; C, D, Tunebia hatagumoana (Sakai, 1961), C, male, 3.9 × 3.9 mm (ZRC 2011.0772), Panglao; D, specimen not examined (coll. off western coast of Batangas; stn DW 2861, LUMIWAN 2008).