Enosteoides palauensis (Nakasone & Miyake, 1968)

Osawa, Masayuki, 2007, Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands, Zootaxa 1548, pp. 1-49 : 11

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.178040

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6250025

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scientific name

Enosteoides palauensis (Nakasone & Miyake, 1968)
status

 

Enosteoides palauensis (Nakasone & Miyake, 1968) View in CoL

Porcellana melissa Miyake, 1942: 367 View in CoL (part), text-fig. 27 (not P. melissa Miyake, 1942 View in CoL ). Porcellana palauensis Nakasone & Miyake, 1968c: 165 View in CoL , fig. 1, pl. 7, fig. A.

Enosteoides palauensis View in CoL .— Haig, 1978: 709.

Enosteoides hainanensis Yang & Sun, 2005: 19 View in CoL , figs. 15, 16 (type locality: Hainan Island) (new synonymy).

Material examined. Type material: Palau. Ngadarák Reef, Palau Islands, coll. S. Miyake, 23 May 1939, ovig. female CL 3.6mm, holotype ( ZLKU 4266). Same data as holotype: ovig. female CL 3.1mm, paratype ( ZLKU 4267).

New Caledonia. Kuendu Beach, lagoon, 22°23’S, 166°32’E, 31 m, 5 May 1996, coll. B. Richer de Forges, 2 females CL 2.7, 3.0 mm. Namié, lagoon, low tide, 3 Oct. 1978, coll. C. Vadon, 1 male CL 6.1 mm. Récif Senez, lagoon, 7 m, 7 Sep. 1992, coll. P. Bouchet, 1 female CL 4.2 mm.

Remarks. The specimens examined generally agree well with the type material of E. palauensis . Yang & Sun (2005) described a new species, E. hainanensis , from Hainan Island in the South China Sea. They remarked that this species was very similar to E. palauensis , but distinguished by the carapace being more conspicuously areolated on the dorsal surface and by the shape of the basal article of the antennular peduncle being different. However, these distinctions are insufficient to distinguish the two species because the type material of E. palauensis in fact has the characters of E. hainanensis . Therefore, E. hainanensis should be considered a synonym of E. palauensis .

Distribution. Hainan Island in China, and Palau ( Nakasone & Miyake 1968c; Yang & Sun 2005). The present record of the species from New Caledonia greatly extends its distribution to the southern hemisphere. The specimens examined were collected at depths of 7– 31 m.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Porcellanidae

Genus

Enosteoides

Loc

Enosteoides palauensis (Nakasone & Miyake, 1968)

Osawa, Masayuki 2007
2007
Loc

Enosteoides hainanensis

Yang 2005: 19
2005
Loc

Enosteoides palauensis

Haig 1978: 709
1978
Loc

Porcellana melissa

Nakasone 1968: 165
Miyake 1942: 367
1942
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