Glypturus armatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1870 )

Poore, Gary C. B., 2023, New records and one new species of Callichiridae (Crustacea, Axiidea) from the Indo-West Pacific, with keys to species of Corallianassa, Lepidophthalmus and Neocallichirus, Memoirs of Museum Victoria (Mem. Mus. Vic.) 82, pp. 71-95 : 73

Glypturus armatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1870)

Callianassa armata A. Milne-Edwards, 1870: 90 , 101, pl. 1. Glypturus armatus .— Komai et al., 2015: 18–29, figs 1–7

(redescription, synonymy).— Dworschak, 2018: 21–22, figs 3, 4. —

Poore et al., 2019: 136, 144, fig. 15k.— Robles et al., 2020.

Material examined. Australia, Northern Territory, Arafura Sea , 9.377° S, 134.215° E, 105 m ( CSIRO cruise SS05/2005, stn 015 BS004 ), AM P.74496 (female). USA, Marinas Is, Guam , burrows in seagrass, 0–1 m, UF (1 male) . Papua New Guinea, Madang area, intertidal mudflats, MNHN (3 specimens, 6–12 mm) . Kavieng , intertidal, MNHN (1 specimen) . Tonga, Tongatapu, intertidal sandflat, NMV J6120 (2 males, 1 female, 11–18 mm) . French Polynesia, Moorea , mudflats, 0–0.5 m, UF (4 specimens, 11–22 mm), MNHN (2 specimens) .

Size. Cl. to 38.8 mm.

Distribution. Central and Eastern Indo-Pacific ( Vietnam; Japan, Ryuku Is; Philippines; Mariana Is; Indonesia; Papua New Guinea; Australia, NT; Fiji [type locality]; Tonga; New Caledonia; French Polynesia); intertidal to 105 m.

Remarks. Glypturus armatus is a well-known species recently redescribed ( Komai et al., 2015; Dworschak, 2018). These new records are within its known geographic range, but the species has not been previously recorded from Tonga or at depths greater than 30 m. Molecular data do not distinguish Papua New Guinea examples from representatives from the Philippines or from Tonga ( Robles et al., 2020).