Rochinia sibogae Griffin and Tranter, 1986

Forges, Bertrand Richer de & Poore, Gary C. B., 2008, Deep-sea majoid crabs of the genera Oxypleurodon and Rochinia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Epialtidae) mostly from the continental margin of Western Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, pp. 63-70 : 69

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scientific name	Rochinia sibogae Griffin and Tranter, 1986
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Rochinia sibogae Griffin and Tranter, 1986 View in CoL

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Rochinia sibogae Griffin and Tranter, 1986b: 363 View in CoL , fig. 12. Rochinia riversandersoni View in CoL .— Griffin, 1976: 211. — Griffin and

Tranter, 1986a: 187.— Davie and Short, 1989: 181.— Ng and Richer de

Forges, 2007: 62.

Materialexamined. WA.MermaidL24transect(16°38.04'S – 16°38.46'S, 119°09.13'E – 119°08.02'E), 990– 987 m, 17 Jun 2007 (stn SS05/2007 068), NMV J58024 About NMV (ovigerous female 16.2 x 10.6 mm). Barrow L 1 transect (20°57.09'S – 20°57.34'S, 114°00.47'E – 114°00.26'E), 1000 m, 09 Jun 2007 (stn SS05/2007 002), NMV J58142 About NMV (male 18.4 x 12.6 mm) GoogleMaps .

Remarks. This species was described by Griffin and Tranter (1986b) from specimens from Ceram Island, Indonesia. The authors drew attention to the common confusion between R. sibogae and R. riversandersoni ( Alcock, 1895) from India. They gave a short key to species of this group of Rochinia where R. sibogae is clearly separated from the others by the hepatic plate fused with the postocular plate. This new locality for R. sibogae extends the range of the species far south of Indonesia, from 3°S to 20°S on the north-west slope at 1000 m, a similar depth to the type locality.

References

Alcock, A. 1895. Materials for a carcinological fauna of India. No. 1. The Brachyura Oxyrhyncha. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 64: 157 - 291, pls 153 - 155.

Davie, P. J. F., and Short, J. W. 1989. Deepwater Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) from southern Queensland, Australia with descriptions of four new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27: 157 - 87.

Griffin, D. J. G. 1976. Spider crabs of the family Majidae (Crustacea: Brachyura) from the Philippine Islands. Journal of Natural History 10: 179 - 222.

Griffin, D. J. G., and Tranter, H. A. 1986 b. Some majid spider crabs from the deep Indo-West Pacific. Records of the Australian Museum 38: 351 - 71.

Griffin, D. J. G., and Tranter, H. A. 1986 a. The Decapoda Brachyura of the Siboga Expedition. Part VIII Majidae. Siboga Expeditie 39: 1 - 335.

Ng, P. K. L., and Richer de Forges, B. 2007. A new species of deepwater spider crab of the genus Rochinia A. Milne-Edwards, 1875, from Guam (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majidae). Zootaxa 1610: 61 - 68.

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Figure 2. Lateral and dorsal views, scale = 5 mm. a, Rochinia fultoni (female, NMV J4730). b, Rochinia pulchra (female, NMV J55947). c, Rochinia sibogae (male, NMV J58142). d, Rochinia strangeri (female, NMV J55427).