Liomera edwardsi Kossmann, 1877

Iwasa-Arai, Tammy, McCallum, Anna W. & Taylor, Joanne, 2015, Oceanic Shoals Commonwealth Marine Reserve survey reveals new records of xanthid crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from northern Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 73, pp. 1-11 : 4-5

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Liomera edwardsi Kossmann, 1877 View in CoL

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Liomera edwardsi Kossmann, 1877: 28 View in CoL .

Carpilodes edwardsi.— Miers, 1886: 133 (part).— Odhner, 1925: 13, pl. 1, fig. 5.— Holthuis, 1953: 13.— Serène & Luom, 1960: 176 (key).

Carpilodes laevis View in CoL .— Milne-Edwards, Nobili, 1906b: 215 (part).— Michel, 1964: 23 (not A. Milne-Edwards, 1873).

Carpilodes sayademalhensis Rathbun, 1911: 211 View in CoL , pl. 17, fig. 5.— Ward, 1942: 83.

Liomera edwardsi View in CoL .— Guinot, 1967: 266.— Serène, 1968: 72.— Sakai, 1976: 393, fig. 209a, pl. 139, fig. 5.— Muraoka, 1998: 38. — Davie, 2002: 543.

Liomera (Liomera) edwardsi View in CoL .— Serène, 1984: 49 (key), 54 (key), 58, pl. 5C.

Material examined. NMV J46927 View Materials About NMV , 1 male, Cb= 9.4 mm, Cl= 5.8 mm (acq. 10282) Survey SOL5650, Stn 014 BS002, 12°4.133'–4.133'S, 127°26.164'–26.164'E, 36– 34 m, Benthic sled , 17/09/2012 ; NMV J46926 View Materials About NMV , 1 female Cb= 14.2 mm, Cl= 9.2 mm (acq. 10100) Survey SOL5650, Stn 019 GR026, 12°4.842, 127°25.815'E, 49 m, Smith Mac , 18/09/2012 ; NMV J46924 View Materials About NMV , 1 female, Cb= 10.8 mm, Cl= 7.1 mm (acq. 10327) Survey SOL5650, Stn 016 BS004, 12°4.491'S, 127°25.742'E, 45 m, Benthic sled , 17/09/2012 GoogleMaps ; NMV J46925 View Materials About NMV , 1 male, Cb= 15.6 mm, Cl= 9.8 mm (acq. 20251) Survey SOL5650, Stn 074 BS022, 12°4.49'– 4.52'S, 127°26.62–26.62'E, 59–66 m, Benthic sled , 03/10/2012 .

Colour in preservative. Carapace crimson with white patches mostly on 3 R, sometimes extending to 5L and 2L Ambulatory legs crimson with bands of white at the distal and proximal ends; chelipeds crimson with black fingers. Abdomen mostly white with crimson patches. All specimens presented crimson and white colouration, but differ in proportion of white.

Remarks. Liomera edwardsi was the only species with more than one specimen collected during the Timor Sea Oceanic Shoals survey. Liomera edwardsi is very similar to L. tristis (Dana, 1852) , L. laevis (A. Milne-Edwards, 1873), L. sagamiensis ( Sakai, 1939) and L. nigropunctata (Serène & Van Luom, 1960) , but can be distinguished by a projecting areole well separated from 2M and 1F ( Serène, 1984) on the dorsal surface. This species was previously recorded in Australia by Odhner (1925) from one specimen collected from Holothuria Bank, Northwest Australia.

Distribution. Comoro Islands ( Mayotte), Madagascar (Tulear), Djibouti and Red Sea, South China Sea, Japan (Kii Peninsula), Solomon Islands (Peros Bankos), Northwest Australia, Australia (Holothuria Bank) ( Odhner, 1925; Sakai, 1976; Serène, 1984). Depth range 15– 59 m.

References

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Guinot, D., 1967. La faune carcinologique (Crustacea Brachyura) de l'Ocean Indien Occidental et de la Mer Rouge: Catalogue, remarques biogeographiques et bibliographiques. In: Reunion de Specialistes C. S. A. sur les Crustaces, Zanzibar 1964. Memoires de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique Noire, 77 (1966): 235 - 352, pls 1 - 26, 1 table.

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Kossmann, R., 1877. Zoologische Ergebnisse einer Reise in die kustengebiete des Rothen Meeres. Malacostraca. 1. Theil: Brachyura. Leipzig, W. Engelmann: 1 - 66, pls 1 - 3.

Michel, C., 1964. Checklist of the Crustacea Brachyura (Crabs) recorded from Mauritius. Mauritius Institute Bulletin, 6 (1): 1 - 48.

Miers, E. J., 1886. Report on the Brachyura collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. In: C. W. Thompson & J. Murray, Report on the Scientific Results of the exploring Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876, under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R. N., F. R. S. and the Late Captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R. N., Zoology, 17 (2): i-xli, 1 - 362, pls 1 - 29. Michel, C., 1964. Checklist of the Crustacea Brachyura (Crabs) recorded from Mauritius. Mauritius Institute Bulletin, 6 (1): 1 - 48.

Milne-Edwards, A., 1873. Recherches sur la faune carcinologique de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Part II. Groupe des Cyclometopes Portuniens. Nouvelles archives du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 9: 155 - 332, pls 4 - 18.

Muraoka, K., 1998. Catalogue of the Brachyuran and Anomuran Crabs donated by Prof. Dr. Tune Sakai to the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum. Catalogue of the Collection in the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, 11: 5 - 67, pls 1 - 16.

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Odhner, T., 1925. Monographierte Gattungen der Krabben-familie Xanthidae. I. Goteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhalles Handlingar, (4) 29 (1): 1 - 92, figs 1 - 7, pls 1 - 5.

Rathbun, M. J., 1911. Marine Brachyura. In: The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the Leadership of Mr J. Stanley Gardiner. Vol. III, part II, No. XI. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, (Zool.), (2) 14 (2): 191 - 261, figs 1 - 2, pls 15 - 20.

Sakai, T., 1939. Studies on the crabs of Japan. IV. Brachygnatha, Brachyrhyncha, pp. 365 - 741, figs 1 - 129, pls 42 - 111, table 1. Yokendo Co., Tokyo.

Sakai, T., 1976. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. (In 3 volumes: (1) English text: i-xxix, 1 - 773, figs 1 - 379, (2) Plates volume: 1 - 16, pls 1 - 251, (3) Japanese text: 1 - 461, figs 1 - 2, 3 maps.) Kodansha Ltd, Tokyo.

Serene, R., and N. V. Luom, 1960. Les especes de Carpilodes (Bachyura-Xanthidae) du Viet-Nam. Annales de la Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Saigon, 1960: 173 - 187, figs 1 - 2, pls 1 - 2.

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 National Academy of Sciences, Special publication No. 1, Fauna IIIC 3: 33 - 112.

Serene, R., 1984. Crustaces Decapodes Brachyoures de l'Ocean Indien occidental et de la Mer Rouge, Xanthoidea: Xanthidae et Trapeziidae. Avec un addendum par Crosnier (A): Carpiliidae et Menippidae. Faune Tropicale, no. XXIV: 1 - 349, figs A-C + 1 - 243, pls 1 - 48. (Translated into English by R. W. Ingle).

Ward, M., 1942. Notes on the Crustacea of the Desjardins Museum, Mauritius Institute, with descriptions of new genera and species. Bulletin of the Mauritius Institute, Port Louis, 2 (2): 49 - 113, pls 5 - 6.

Figures

Figure 1. A, Actaeodes mutatus Guinot 1976, female, 18.1 X 11.5 mm (NMV J46921); B, Paractaea rufopunctata plumosa Guinot, in Sakai, 1976, male, 29.1 X 19.7 mm (NMV J46922); C, Euxanthus sp., male, 8.12 X 5.83 mm (NMV J46923); D, Liomera edwardsi Kossmann, 1877, male, 9.37 X 5.83 mm (NMV J46927); E, Liomera margaritata, male, 16.3 X 9.8 mm (NMV J46928); F, Atergatopsis granulata A. Milne Edwards, 1865, female, 19.6 X 12.9 mm (NMV J46929); G, Atergatopsis alcocki, male, 32.4 X 22.4 mm (NMV J46930); H, Lophozozymus dodone (Herbst, 1801), male, 16.7 X 10.4mm (NMV J46931). Photos: T. Iwasa-Arai.