Neosarmatium fourmanoiri Serène, 1973

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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scientific name	Neosarmatium fourmanoiri Serène, 1973
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Neosarmatium fourmanoiri Serène, 1973 View in CoL

Figs. 3B View FIGURE 3

Material examined. 1 male, 40.6 by 33.8 mm, 1 female, 32.4 by 26.5 mm ( ZRC; JBN170503 View Materials , JBN170504 View Materials ), Brgy. Bantayan, Sindangan town , Zamboanga del Norte prov., coll. J.B. Neri, 5 Sep. 2017 ; 2 males, 33.9 by 28.1 mm, 28.5 by 23.1 mm, 1 female, 28.5 by 23.1 mm ( ZRC; ZSM181406–08 View Materials ), Brgy. Badtasan, Kiamba town, Saranggani prov. , coll. Z.S. Molina, 13 Jan. 2018 .

Remarks. Serène (1973) described Neosarmatium fourmanoiri from a single male specimen from New Caledonia (holotype) and two other male specimens (paratypes) from Queensland, Australia. This species has also been recorded from Fiji, Guam, Iryan Jaya, Sulawesi, Taiwan, and Vanuatu ( Davie 1994; Ng et al. 1997; Schubart & Ng 2002). The material from Mindanao agrees well with the descriptions and illustrations in Serène (1973: 126, pl. 3) and Davie (1994: 39, figs. 2C, D, 3). It can easily be distinguished from the preceding species by its live colouration, wherein the carapace and ambulatory legs are dark brown to black with tinges of purple, and the chelae are dark red. The present material was collected from mangrove swamps, with some observed in burrows next to a stand of nypa palms, and are syntopic with Cardisoma carnifex , Tiomanium indicum and Neosarmatium asiaticum in the Sindangan collection site.

New Philippine record.

References

Davie, P. J. F. (1994) Revision of Neosarmatium Serene and Soh (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) with descriptions of new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 35 (1), 35 - 74.

Ng, P. K. L., Liu, H. - C. & Wang, C. - H. (1997) On the terrestrial sesarmid crabs of the genus Neosarmatium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae) from Taiwan. Journal of Taiwan Museum, 49, 145 - 159.

Schubart, C. & Ng, P. K. L. (2002) The sesarmid genus Neosarmatium (Decapoda: Brachyura): new distribution records and a new species from Sulawesi. Crustacean Research, 31, 28 - 38. https: // doi. org / 10.18353 / crustacea. 31.0 _ 28

Serene, R. (1973) Notes sur quelques especes de brachyoures de Nouvelle-Caledonie. Cahiers du Pacifique, 17, 119 - 161, 8 pls.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Colour photos of recently preserved crabs (dorsal habitus). A, Neosarmatium asiaticum Ragionieri, Fratini & Schubart, 2012, male, 37.0 by 30.0 mm (ZRC), Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte; B, Neosarmatium fourmanoiri Serène, 1973, male, 40.6 by 33.8mm (ZRC), Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte; C, Neosarmatium indicum (A. Milne-Edwards, 1868), male, 14.4 by 12.1 mm (ZRC), Basilisa, Dinagat Island; D, Parasesarma anambas Yeo, Rahayu & Ng, 2004, male, 8.6 by 7.0 mm (ZRC), Lianga, Surigao del Sur; E, Leptarma jamelense (Rathbun, 1914), male, 10.6 by 9.3 mm (ZRC), Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental; F, Parasesarma kuekenthali (De Man, 1902), male, 15.4 by 13.0 mm (ZRC), Basilisa, Dinagat I. Scale bars: 10 mm.