Globospongicola spinulatus Komai & Saito, 2006

Wang, Teng-Wei, Komai, Tomoyuki, Chen, Chien-Lin & Chan, Tin-Yam, 2016, Globospongicola jiaolongi Jiang, Kou & Li, 2015, a junior subjective synonym of G. spinulatus Komai & Saito, 2006 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Stenopodidea: Spongicolidae), Zootaxa 4072 (5), pp. 579-584 : 581-582

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.5.5

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6057510

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scientific name

Globospongicola spinulatus Komai & Saito, 2006
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Globospongicola spinulatus Komai & Saito, 2006 View in CoL

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Globospongicola spinulatus Komai & Saito, 2006: 276 View in CoL , figs. 7–12 (type locality: Vanuatu).— De Grave & Fransen 2011: 249. Globospongicola jiaolongi Jiang, Kou & Li, 2015: 271 , figs. 1–6 (type locality: South China Sea).

Material examined. Vanuatu.—MUSORSTOM 8, stn CP 1026, 17°50.35’S, 168°39.33’E, 437–504 m, 28 Sep 1994: ovig. female holotype (cl 7.2 mm), MNHN-Na 15636, male allotype (cl 6.2 mm), MNHN-Na 15637. Taiwan. — TAIWAN 2000, stn CP 23, 22°14.80’N, 120°02.80’E, 880–1070 m, 29 Jul 2000: 1 female (cl 7.22 mm), NTOU M01879 View Materials . — TAIWAN 2001, stn CD 136, 22°07.75’N, 120°00.87’E, 1211– 998 m, 22 Nov 2001: 1 male (cl 5.87 mm), 1 ovig. female (cl 5.38 mm), 1 female (cl 7.19 mm), NTOU M01880 View Materials ; stn CD 141, 22°12.04’N, 119°59.96’E, 1110– 985 m, 22 Nov 2001: 3 males (cl 5.75–6.33 mm), 6 ovig. females (cl 6.4–9.09 mm), 1 female (cl 6.37 mm), NTOU M01881 View Materials .— TAIWAN 2003, stn CD 229, 22°13.35’N, 120°01.90’E, 1060– 880 m, 30 Aug 2003: 2 ovig. females (cl 5.63, 7.09 mm), NTOU M01882 View Materials ; stn CD 230, 22°19.32’N, 120°03.30’E, 795–840 m, 30 Aug 2003: 1 male (cl 5.47 mm), NTOU M01883 View Materials .— TAIWAN 2005, stn CP 300, 22°14.555’N, 119°58.719’E, 960– 972 m, 11 Aug 2005: 1 female (cl 6.52 mm), NTOU M01884 View Materials ; stn PCP 332, 22°13.975’N, 120°00.224’E, 961–1026 m, 5 Oct 2005: 1 female (cl 5.43 mm), NTOU M01885 View Materials ; stn PCP 334, 22°14.167’N, 119°59.259’E, 994– 975 m, 5 Oct 2005: 2 males (cl 5.25, 6.17 mm), 2 ovig. females (cl 6.39, 7.68 mm), 1 female (cl 6.78 mm), NTOU M01886 View Materials .— TAIWAN 2006, stn PCP 342, 22°16.648’N, 119°59.960’E, 988–1010 m, 8 Mar 2006: 8 males (cl 4.51– 6.04 mm), 5 ovig. females (cl 6.29–7.92 mm), 4 females (cl 5.16–6.74 mm), NTOU M01887 View Materials ; stn PCP 343, 22°15.699’N, 120°02.131’E, 945–1059 m, 8 Mar 2006: 1 ovig. female (cl 6.62 mm), NTOU M01888 View Materials ; stn PCP 344, 22°15.952’N, 120º00.110’E, 995–1073 m, 8 Mar 2006: 1 male (cl 4.51 mm), 1 ovig. female (cl 6.96 mm), 2 females (cl 5.34, 7.09 mm), NTOU M01877 View Materials .— TAIWAN 2007, stn PCP 400, 22º15.989’N, 120º2.165’E, 921–972 m, 6 Nov 2007: 1 ovig. female (cl 6.81 mm), NTOU M01889 View Materials .— TAIWAN 2008, stn PCP 445, 22º17.102’N, 120º0.167’E, 982–999 m, 14 Jul 2008: 3 males (cl 4.27–6.83 mm), 9 ovig. females (cl 6.19–8.28 mm), 5 females (cl 6.11–7.12 mm), NTOU M01890 View Materials .— TAIWAN 2012, stn PCP 462, 22º17.302’N, 120º0.249’E, 959–995 m, 16 Jun 2012: 1 male (cl 5.59 mm), 1 female (cl 6.13 mm), NTOU M01891 View Materials .

Description. Both Komai & Saito (2006) and Jiang et al. (2015) have provided detailed description of the species.

Coloration. Entire body including eyes semitransparent. Internal organs inside carapace yellowish. Distribution. Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, South China Sea and southwestern Taiwan, at depths of 437–1300 m; associated with hexactinellid sponges.

Remarks. The Taiwanese material was all from the inside of hexactinellid sponges and sometimes more than a pair of specimens could be found inside a single sponge. The sponges were collected from rather soft sandy mud bottoms but without any sign of chemosynthetic environment. Jiang et al. (2015) reported that their specimens were collected from a cold vent at 22°7.30’N, 119°17.20’’E in the South China Sea. Actually the cold vent Jiang et al. (2015) referred to is the Formosa Ridge cold seep, dominated by the galatheoid crab Shinkaia crosnieri Baba & Williams, 1998 (see Baba et al. 2009; Lin et al. 2013; Li 2015; Yang et al. in press). We have performed many biodiversity surveys on the Formosa Ridge ( Lin et al. 2013; Yang et al. in press) but no sponges have been found directly on the cold seep, though many hexactinellid sponges were collected during trawl surveys in nearby areas (22°07.75’– 22°19.32’ N, 119°59.96’– 120°03.30’E, see “Material examined”). A communication with Xinzheng Li, corresponding author of Jiang et al. (2015), reveals that the types of G. jiaolongi was actually collected outside the cold seep site in an area not affected by chemosynthesis. Thus, G. spinulatus should not be considered as being related to chemosynthetic environments. Nevertheless, the associated sponges of the Taiwanese material of G. spinulatus have a general appearance very similar to the host sponge of G. jiaolongi shown in Jiang et al. (2015: fig. 7).

NTOU

Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Spongicolidae

Genus

Globospongicola

Loc

Globospongicola spinulatus Komai & Saito, 2006

Wang, Teng-Wei, Komai, Tomoyuki, Chen, Chien-Lin & Chan, Tin-Yam 2016
2016
Loc

Globospongicola spinulatus

Jiang 2015: 271
Komai 2006: 276
2006
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