Galathea albatrossae Baba, 1988

Macpherson, Enrique & Robainas-Barcia, Aymee, 2015, Species of the genus Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with descriptions of 92 new species, Zootaxa 3913 (1), pp. 1-335 : 37

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Galathea albatrossae Baba, 1988 View in CoL

Galathea albatrossae Baba, 1988: 65 View in CoL , fig. 26 (off northwestern Palawan, 26–46 m) (Sulu Sea off western Mindanao, off northwestern Palawan, South China Sea off southwestern Luzon, 20–60 m).— Baba 1989: 128 (Oshima Strait, Amamioshima, 25–45 m).— Komai 2000: 352 (list).— Baba et al. 2009: 109, figs. 88–89 ( Taiwan, 36 m).— Poore et al. 2011: 332, pl. 10C (color photo, Taiwan).

Material examined. Japan. Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa Island, Toukamuri, 26.5439°N, 128.0497°E, 20–23 m, 21 July 2010: 1 ov. F 5.5 mm (UF 27166).

Palau. 8 M 3.2–4.4 mm, 4 ov. F 3.6–4.0 mm (UF 5218).— Palau. Ngeremlengui Channel, 15 m, 21 June1995: 1 M 2.4 mm (UF 5050).

Philippines. MUSORSTOM 1, Stn 73,14°15'N, 120°31'E, 70–76 m, 28 March 1976: 1 M 2.6 mm, 2 ov. F 3.4–3.6 mm (MNHN-IU-2013-8105).

Vanuatu. SANTO, Stn DS22, 15°31.7'S, 167°09.7'E, 25 m, 15 September 2006: 1 F 4.2 mm (MNHN-IU-2013- 13974).

New Caledonia. Lagon East. Stn 833, 20°49.8'S, 165°17.7'E, 52–70 m, 11 January 1987: 2 ov. F 4.6–4.8 mm (MNHN-IU-2013-8107).

Remarks. The specimens examined agree quite well with the original description and illustrations ( Baba 1988). The P1 fingers are distally ending in incurved teeth to cross each other when closed. This character, together with the shallowly incised rostral lateral teeth, can be used to differentiate G. albatrossae to other closely related species, e.g. G. pubescens Stimpson, 1858 , G. tagaloa n. sp., that have P1 fingers distally spooned and the rostral lateral teeth deeply incised.

No molecular data is available from G. albatrossae .

Distribution. Western Pacific, from Japan to New Caledonia, 15– 76 m.

References

Baba, K. (1988) Chirostylid and galatheid crustaceans (Decapoda: Anomura) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907 - 1910. Researches on Crustacea, Special Number, 2, 1 - 203.

Baba, K. (1989) Anomuran crustaceans obtained by dredging from Oshima Strait, Amami-Oshima of the Ryukyu Islands. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 22, 127 - 134.

Baba, K., Macpherson, E., Lin, C. W., & Chan, T. Y. (2009) Crustacean Fauna of Taiwan. Squat lobsters (Chirostylidae and Galatheidae). National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, 311.

Komai, T. (2000) A check list of Thalassinidea and Anomura (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the South China Sea. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement, 8, 343 - 376.

Poore, G. C. B., Ahyong, S. T. & Taylor, J. (Eds.) (2011) The biology of squat lobsters. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne and CRC Press, Boca Raton, 363 pp.

Stimpson, W. (1858) Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Pars VII. Crustacea Anomura. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 10, 225 - 252.