Tuerkayana hirtipes (Dana, 1851)

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 : 305-306

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Cardisoma hirtipes, Estampador 1937: 541 ; 1959: 98.— Türkay 1974: 229.

Discoplax hirtipes, Ng & Guinot 2001: 335 .— Ng & Shih 2014: 112, fig. 1G, H, 5E, 10H, 15. Material examined. 1 female, 57.0 by 53.0 mm, (MSU-IIT; NJL191802), Pocto I., Brgy. Manyayay, Lianga town, Surigao del Sur prov., coll. N.J. Lagare, 3 Mar. 2019.

Remarks. Recent systematic revisions of Discoplax hirtipes (Dana, 1851) (type locality: Viti) have limited the distributional range of this species to the western and central Pacific, with other populations in the Indian Ocean being recognized as two separate species, D. celeste and D. magna ( Ng & Davie 2012; Ng & Shih 2014). Even more recently, Guinot et al. (2018), had established a new genus Tuerkayana (type species: Thelphusa rotunda Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 ), and included these three aforementioned species in that genus.

In the Philippines, Tuerkayana hirtipes has been recorded by Estampador (1937, 1959) (no specific locality), Türkay (1974) (Dinagat I.), and by Ng & Guinot (2001) and Ng & Shih (2014) (Bohol I.). Anecdotal evidence also indicates that this species is more widespread than presented in the literature, and is used as food in many rural areas in the Philippines (JCEM pers. obs.). The present specimen was found on a limestone hill/outcrop amidst a coastal mangrove.

References

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.

Guinot, D., Ng, N. K. & Rodriguez Moreno, P. A. (2018) Review of grapsoid families for the establishment of a new family for Leptograpsodes Montgomery, 1931, and a new genus of Gecarcinidae H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsoidea Macleay, 1838). Zoosystema, 40 (26), 547 - 604. https: // doi. org / 10.5252 / zoosystema 2018 v 40 a 26

Ng, P. K. L. & Guinot, D. (2001) On the land crabs of the genus Discoplax A. Milne Edwards, 1867 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae), with description of a new cavernicolous species from the Philippines. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 49 (2), 311 - 338.

Ng, P. K. L. & Davie, P. J. F. (2012) The blue crab of Christmas Island, Discoplax celeste, new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 60 (1), 89 - 100.

Ng, P. K. L. & Shih, H. - T. (2014) The systematics of the land crabs of the Discoplax hirtipes (Dana, 1851) species-group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae), with description of a new species from the eastern Indian Ocean. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement No. 30, 109 - 135.

Turkay, M. (1974) Die Gecarcinidae Asiens und Ozeaniens (Crustacea: Decapoda). Senckenbergiana biologica, 55 (4 / 6), 223 - 259.