Rochinia mosaica ( Whitelegge, 1900 )

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 : 68

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scientific name	Rochinia mosaica ( Whitelegge, 1900 )
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Rochinia mosaica ( Whitelegge, 1900) View in CoL

Pugettia mosaica Whitelegge, 1900: 141 View in CoL , pl. 35 figs 5–7.

Doclea profunda Rathbun, 1918: 16 View in CoL , pl. 7 figs 1, 2.— Hale, 1927: 134, fig. 134.

Rochinia mosaica View in CoL .— Griffin and Tranter, 1986a: 185, figs 58, 62e, f.— Griffin and Tranter, 1986b: 363.— Poore, 2004: 387.— Ng and Richer de Forges, 2007: 62.

Material examined. Australia. Tas. Eastern Bass Strait , 100 km NE of North Point, Flinders I. (38°52.36'S, 148°25.12'E), 140 m, 15 Nov 1981 (stn BSS 170 S), NMV J4731 About NMV (female 9.3 x 6.6 mm).Vic. Eastern Bass Strait, S of Waratah Bay (38°59.54'S, 146°00'E), 64 m, 26 Nov 1973 (stn K7-73-63), NMV J12157 About NMV (2 males 13.2 x 9.4 mm, 12.7 x 8.7 mm). Central Bass Strait, 100 km SSE of Cape Liptrap (39°45.54'S, 145°33.18'E), 74 m, 13 Nov 1981 (stn BSS 156 ), NMV J10642 About NMV (juvenile); NMV J4732 About NMV (female 8.1 x 5.1 mm). SA. Great Australian Bight (33°15.52'S – 33°16.03'S, 130°37.50'E –130° 37 07'E), 139–141 m, 09 May 2000 (stn SS01/00 334), NMV J52198 About NMV (3 males 8.5 x 5.2 mm, 7.3 x 4.8 mm, 7.2 x 4.3 mm). Great Australian Bight (33°16.00'S – 33°16.36'S, 130°43.09'E – 130°48.38'E), 134– 130 m, 10 May 2000 (stn SS01/00 351), NMV J52196 About NMV (2 ovigerous females 11.3 x 7.7 mm, 10.9 x 7.4 mm). Great Australian Bight (33°16.00'S – 33°16.01'S, 130°36.35'E – 130°38.02'E), 143– 140 m, 10 May 2000 (stn SS01/00 350), NMV J52197 About NMV (3 males 9.1 x 5.8 mm, 9.4 x 5.9 mm, 7.7 x 4.5 mm; ovigerous female 9.1 x 5.7 mm; female 7.1 x 4.5 mm; juvenile 4.8 x 3.3 mm) GoogleMaps .

Remarks. This material from south-eastern Australia fits well with the redescription of R. mosaica by Griffin and Tranter (1986a). Whitelegge described this species in the genus Pugettia in which the carapace has a similar pattern but the first pleopod of Pugettia is very different from that of Rochinia . The records are well within the reported distribution of the species from central Queensland, through Bass Strait to the Great Australian Bight. The most westerly is 130°W near the SA –WA border.

References

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.

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.

Hale, H. M. 1927. The crustaceans of South Australia. Part 1. South Australian Government Printer: Adelaide. 201 pp.

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.

Poore, G. C. B. 2004. Marine decapod Crustacea of southern Australia. A guide to identification (with chapter on Stomatopoda by Shane Ahyong). CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne. 574 pp.

Rathbun, M. J. 1918. Report on the spider crabs obtained by the F. I. S. Endeavour on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried out by the F. I. S. Endeavour , 1909 - 14 5: 1 - 29, pls 21 - 15.

Whitelegge, T. 1900. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H. M. C. S. Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898. Crustacea. Part I. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 135 - 199, pls 132 - 135.