Rochinia fultoni ( Grant, 1905 )

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 fultoni ( Grant, 1905 )
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Rochinia fultoni ( Grant, 1905) View in CoL

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Hyastenus Fultoni Grant, 1905: 313 View in CoL , pl. 11 fig. 1. Rochinia fultoni View in CoL .— Griffin, 1966: 280.— Griffin and Tranter,

1986a: 176.— Poore, 2004: 387, fig. 118f. — 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 J4730 About NMV (2 ovigerous females 15.0 x 10.0 mm, 11.3 x 7.5 mm; male 11.7 x 7.0 mm) GoogleMaps . 70 km ENE of North Point, Flinders I. (39°28.24'S, 148°41.48'E), 110 m, 28 Mar 1979 (stn BSS 35 ), NMV J23091 About NMV (juvenile) GoogleMaps . 37 km NE of Cape Tourville (41°52.52'S – 41°59.34'S, 148°37.56'E –148° 31 08'E), 124 m, 30 Oct 1988 (stn SLOPE 85 ), NMV J16059 About NMV (male). Vic GoogleMaps . W of Cape Nelson , 183 m, 06 Jun 1969, NMV J8610 About NMV (male, ovigerous female)

Remarks. This species has already been mentioned from the east and south coasts of Australia. Most records in Museum

Victoria are from the continental margin of eastern Bass Strait .

References

Grant, F. E. 1905. Crustacea dredged off Port Jackson in deep water. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1905: 312 - 24, pls 310 - 11.

Griffin, D. J. G. 1966. A review of the Australian majid spider crabs (Crustacea, Brachyura). Australian Zoologist 13: 259 - 298, pls 215 - 217.

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.

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.

Figures

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).