Paromola macrochira Sakai, 1961

Ng, Peter K. L. & Forges, Bertrand Richer de, 2017, On a collection of Homolidae from the South China Sea, with descriptions of two new species of Homologenus A. Milne-Edwards, in Henderson, 1888, and the identities of Homologenus malayensis Ihle, 1912, and Lamoha superciliosa (Wood-Mason, in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65, pp. 243-268 : 250

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Paromola macrochira Sakai, 1961 View in CoL

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Paromola macrochira Sakai, 1961: 146 View in CoL , pl. 4, fig. 5. – Griffin, 1965: 87 (part); Serène & Lohavanijaya, 1973: 26, 27, fig. 28 (list). – Sakai, 1976: 40, pl. 10. – Jenkins, 1977: 4 (list). – Matsuzawa, 1977: pl. 85, figs. 1, 2. – Miyake, 1983: 13, 197, pl. 5 fig. 2. – Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995: 367: figs. 21c–e, 27 f. – Ng & Huang, 1997: 262, fig. 1B, C. – Ikeda, 1998: 68–69, pl. 10. – Miyake, 1998: 13, 197, pl. 5 fig. 2. – Muraoka, 1998: 15; Tan et al., 2000: 186. – Ng et al., 2001: 6. – Chen & Sun, 2002: 140, fig. 58. – Marumura & Kosaka, 2003: 21. – Richer de Forges & Ng, 2007: 36. – Ahyong et al., 2009: 111, figs. 78–81. – Ng et al., 2008: 41. – Ng, 2015: 1447, figs. 1–5.

Paromola alcocki faughni Serène & Lohavanijaya, 1973: 27 View in CoL , fig. 32–38, pl. 3C. – Kensley, 1980: 25.

Moloha View in CoL ? alcocki View in CoL faughni – Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995: 376, 383.

Material examined. 1 female (soft, 26.5 × 22.7 mm) ( ZRC 2016.0558 View Materials ), station DW 4095, 21°13.20′N 121°33.75′E – 21°12.41′N 121°32.62′E, 517–573 m, Taiwan, South China Sea , trawl, coll. TAIWAN 2013 Cruise, 19 May 2013 GoogleMaps . – 1 juvenile (11.1 × 8.7 mm) ( ZRC 2016.0559 View Materials ), station CP 4117, continental slope off Tungsha Island , 20°00.88′N 114°08.80′E – 20°01.87′N 114°09.36′E, Taiwan, South China Sea, 333–421 m, coll. trawl, NANHAI 2014 Cruise, 11 January 2014 GoogleMaps . – 2 females (16.5 × 11.4 mm, 16.5 × 11.5 mm) ( ZRC 2016.0560 View Materials ), station CP 4155, northeast of Macclesfield Bank , 16°13.60′N 115°01.61′E – 16°11.21′N 114°59.77′E, Taiwan, South China Sea, 510–526 m, trawl, coll. ZHONGSHA 2015 Cruise, 28 July 2015 GoogleMaps . – 1 soft male specimen (damaged) ( ZRC 2016.0561 View Materials ), station CP 4156, northeast of Macclesfield Bank , 16°09.80′N 114°58.73′E – 16°12.19′N 115°00.53′E, Taiwan, South China Sea, 503–511 m, trawl, coll. ZHONGSHA 2015 Cruise, 28 July 2015 GoogleMaps . – 1 female (16.3 × 11.1 mm) ( ZRC 2016.0562 View Materials ), station CP 4137, continental slope off Tungsha Island , 19°53.06′N 114°21.67′E – 19°53.03′N 114°24.74′E, Taiwan, South China Sea, 524–536 m, trawl, coll. ZHONGSHA 2015 Cruise, 23 July 2015 GoogleMaps .

Colour. Adult Paramola macrochira are orangish-brown overall ( Ahyong et al., 2009: figs. 78, 79). The smaller specimens obtained from the South China Sea are pale orangish-pink overall, with the ambulatory legs mostly white ( Fig. 24C, D View Fig ).

Remarks. On the juveniles of this large species, the rostral horns appear to be relatively longer than in the adults. Ng (2015) demonstrated that the Paromola alcocki faughni from Serène & Lohavanijaya (1973) is a juvenile of P. macrochira .

References

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Guinot D & Richer de Forges B (1995) Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura: Revision de la famille des Homolidae de Haan, 1839. In: Crosnier A (ed.) Resultats des campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 13. Memoires du Museum national d' Histoire naturelle, 163: 283 - 517.

Ikeda H (1998) The Deep-Sea Crabs of Sagami Bay. Hayama Shiosai Museum, Kanagawa, Japan, 180 pp.

Jenkins RJF (1977) A new fossil homolid crab (Decapoda, Brachyura) Middle Tertiary, southeastern Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 101: 1 - 10.

Kensley BF (1980) Decapod and isopod crustaceans from the west coast of Southern Africa, including seamounts Verna and Tripp. Annals of the South African Museum, 83 (2): 13 - 32.

Marumura M & Kosaka A (2003) Catalogue of the brachyuran and anomuran crabs donated by the late Mr. Seiji Nagai to the Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Natural History. Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Kainan, pp. 1 - 73. [In Japanese]

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Miyake S (1998) Brachyura (Crabs). In: Japanese Crustacean Decapods and Stomatopods in color, II. Third Printing. Hoikusha, Osaka, i - viii, 1 - 277, pls. 1 - 64. [In Japanese]

Muraoka K (1998) Catalogue of the brachyuran and anomuran crabs donated by Prof. Dr. Tune Sakai to the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum. Catalogue of the collection in the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Odawara, 11: 1 - 67 pp, 16 pls.

Ng PKL & Huang J-F (1997) Unrecorded crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Taiwan and Tungsha Islands, with description of a new genus and species of Xanthidae. Zoological Studies, 36: 261 - 276.

Ng PKL, Wang C-H, Ho P-H & Shih H-T (2001) An annotated checklist of brachyuran crabs from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda). National Taiwan Museum Special Publication Series, Taipei, Number 11: 1 - 86, 8 colour pls.

Ng PKL, Guinot D & Davie PJF (2008) Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 17: 1 - 286.

Richer de Forges B & Ng PKL (2007) New records and new species of Homolidae De Haan, 1839, from the Philippines and French Polynesia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 16: 29 - 45.

Sakai T (1961) New species of Japanese crabs from the collection of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. Crustaceana, 3 (2): 131 - 150.

Sakai T (1976) Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, In three volumes; English Text, pp. i - xxix, 1 - 773; Japanese Text, pp. 1 - 461; Plates volume, pp. 1 - 16, pls. 1 - 251.

Serene R & Lohavanijaya P (1973) The Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) collected by the Naga Expedition, including a review of the Homolidae. In: Brinton E, Newman WA & Wooster WS (eds.) Scientific Results of Marine Investigations of the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, 1959 - 1961. Naga Report, 4 (4): 1 - 187.

Tan SH, Huang J-F & Ng PKL (2000) The deep-water crabs of the families Homolidae and Latreilliidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Taiwan. In: Hwang J-S, Wang C-H & Chan T-Y (eds.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Marine Biology in Taiwan - Crustacean and Zooplankton Taxonomy, Ecology and Living Resources. National Taiwan Museum Special Publication Series, 10: 181 - 189.

Figures

Fig. 24. Colour in life, A–H from South China Sea; I, J from Papua New Guinea and Bismarck Sea. A, Lamoha longirostris (Chen, 1986), female (24.9 × 20.3 mm) (ZRC 2016.0555); B, Lamoha murotoensis (Sakai, 1979), male (20.8 × 18.4 mm) (ZRC 2016.0200); C, Paromola macrochira Sakai, 1961, female (16.5 × 11.4 mm) (ZRC 2016.0560); D, Paromola macrochira Sakai, 1961, female (16.3 × 11.1 mm) (ZRC 2016.0562); E, Moloha majora (Kubo, 1936), male (54.8 × 47.8 mm) (ZRC 2016.0197); F, Homolochunia gadaletae Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995, ovigerous female (34.1 × 26.4 mm) (ZRC 2016.0198); G, Homolomania sibogae Ihle, 1912, male (15.4 × 11.3 mm) (ZRC 2016.0199); H, Paromolopsis boasi Wood-Mason, in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891, male (20.1 × 17.7 mm) (ZRC 2016.0565); I, Homologenus malayensis Ihle, 1912, ovigerous female (16.0 × 13.9 mm) (MNHN-IU-2015-80); J, Homologenus malayensis Ihle, 1912, ovigerous female (14.9 × 9.9 mm) (MNHN-IU-2014-8052).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
Family	Homolidae
Genus	Paromola