Moloha majora (Kubo, 1936)

Guinot, Danièle & Quenette, Gwenaël, 2005, The spermatheca in podotreme crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata) and its phylogenetic implications, Zoosystema 27 (2), pp. 267-342 : 303

Moloha majora (Kubo, 1936)

Ovigerous female 43.8 × 38.6 mm, Sagami Bay, off Jogashima, 180-200 m, H. Ikeda coll. and det. Paromola alcoki (Stebbing, 1920) (MNHN- B 24798).

This individual was not dissected. Sternal plate ( Fig. 19 ) shows the typical complete and transversal suture 6/7 (corresponding to short invagination of the phragma 6/7), which forms on each side (at the level of the vertical phragmae) a denticulate process overlapping sternite 6. Anterior median part of sternite 7, just below the nearly horizontal course of suture 6/7, is poorly calcified. Sternite 8 shows a short longitudinal median line (not visible in our figure), and the sterno-abdominal notch is developed. External part of the spermatheca consists of a conspicuous membranous region.

Figures

FIG. 19. — Moloha majora (Kubo, 1936), ovigerous female 43.8 × 38.6 mm, Japan, Sagami Bay (MNHN-B 24798), thoracic sternum (median junction of the two symmetrical parts of sternite 8 not visible). Abbreviations: cx1-cx5, coxae of P1-P5; e6, episternites 6; g, female gonopore; m7, poorly calcified part belonging to sternite 7; m8, membranous part of inclined sternite 8; p, denticulate process of lateral part of suture 6/7; t7, thinly calcified anteromedian part of sternite 7; 4-8, thoracic sternites 4-8; 4/5-7/8, sternal sutures 4/5 to 7/8. Scale bar: 1 cm.