Neosarmatium asiaticum Ragionieri, Fratini & Schubart, 2012

Lagare, Nickel Jean S., Mapi-Ot, Emmarie F., Molina, Ziljih S., Neri, Jemateo B., Nuñeza, Olga M. & Mendoza, Jose Christopher E., 2020, On a collection of freshwater and estuarine crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Mindanao Island, the Philippines, Zootaxa 4868 (3), pp. 301-330 : 308

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Fig. 3A

Sesarma meinerti, Bürger 1893: 617 .— Estampador 1937: 538; 1959: 95. Not Neosarmatium meinerti (De Man, 1887) . Sesarma (Sarmatium) meinerti, De Man 1929 : fig. 4. Not Neosarmatium meinerti (De Man, 1887) .

Neosarmatium asiaticum Ragioneri et al. 2012: 82 , tab. 1.

Material examined. 4 males, 34.7 by 28.5 mm—37.5 by 30.5 mm, 1 female, 22.8 by 19 mm ( ZRC; JBN170401–05 View Materials ), Brgy. Poblacion, Manukan town , Zamboanga del Norte prov., coll. J. B. Neri , 17 Nov. , 2017 ; 1 male, 37.0 by 30.0 mm, ( ZRC; JBN170502 View Materials ), Brgy. Bantayan, Sindangan town , Zamboanga del Norte prov., coll. J.B. Neri, 5 Sep. 2017 .

Remarks. Ragioneri et al. (2012) revised the Neosarmatium meinerti (De Man, 1887) species complex, and restricted N. meinerti (type locality: Mauritius) to the islands of the western Indian Ocean while recognizing & describing three new species: viz. N. africanum (type locality: Somalia), which is distributed along the eastern coast of Africa and northwestern Madagascar, N. asiaticum (type locality: Tainan, Taiwan), which is distributed in the eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean; and N. australiense (type locality: Darwin, Australia), which is only found in northwestern Australia.

The species found in the Philippines is N. asiaticum , which has been reported as Sesarma meinerti from the islands of Bohol ( Bürger 1893; Estampador 1937, 1959) and Jolo (De Man 1929). The present material from Mindanao agrees well with the description and illustrations in Ragioneri et al. (2012), including the live colouration, wherein the chelipeds are light yellow, the carapace is brownish with a thin yellow margin on the anterolateral and supraorbital margins, and the ambulatory legs are reddish-ornage. The crabs were found in muddy burrows and some under dead palm branches in mangrove swamps during the day; and were observed to be in the same habitat with the land crab, Cardisoma carnifex , and sesarmids such as Neosarmatium fourmanoiri and Tiomanium indicum (see below).

New Mindanao record.

References

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Estampador E. (1937) A check list of Philippine crustacean decapods. Philippine Journal of Science, 62 (4), 465 - 559.

Estampador, E. (1959) Revised check list of Philippine crustacean decapods. Natural & Applied Science Bulletin, 17, 1 - 125.

Man, J. G. De (1887) Uebersicht der Indo-pazifischen Arten der Gattung Sesarma Say nebst einer Kritik der von W. Hess und E. Nauck in den Jahren 1865 und 1880 beschriebenen Decapoden. Zoologische Jahrbucher, 2, 639 - 689, pl. 1.

Man, J. G. De (1929) Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914 - 1916. I. On a small collection of Decapoda, one of which, a Crangon, caught by the Danish Pacific Expedition at the Jolo Islands, is new to science. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Kobenhavn, 87, 105 - 134.

Ragionieri, L., Fratini, S. & Schubart, C. (2012) Revision of the Neosarmatium meinerti species complex (Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), with descriptions of three pseudocryptic Indo-west Pacific species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 60 (1), 71 - 87.