Polycheles galil Ahyong & Brown, 2002

Ahyong, Shane T. & Galil, Bella S., 2006, Polychelidae from the southern and western Pacific (Decapoda, Polychelida), Zoosystema 28 (3), pp. 757-767 : 764

Polycheles galil Ahyong & Brown, 2002

Polycheles phosphorus – Galil 2000: 336-339, fig. 22 (all except for Andaman Sea specimens; not P. phosphorus ( Alcock, 1894)) .

Polycheles galil Ahyong & Brown, 2002: 56-60 , 75, figs 2, 3A, B (type locality: 258 km NW of Port Hedland, Western Australia, 18°42’S, 116°21’E). — Ahyong & Chan 2004: 176-177 , figs 3J, K, 4F.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Solomon Islands. SALOMON 1, stn CP 1750, 9°15.6’S, 159°54.6’E, 693-696 m, 25.IX.2001, 1 ♀ cl 22.5 mm. — Stn CP 1751, 9°10.4’S, 159°53’E, 749-799 m, 25.IX.2001, 1 ♀ cl 29.4 mm. — Stn CP 1752, 9°06.9’S, 159°53.2’E, 749-799 m, 25.IX.2001, 2 ♀♀ cl 18.1-18.8 mm. — Stn CP 1755, 8°58.2’S, 159°41.6’E, 1288-1313 m, 26.IX.2001, 1 ♂ cl 27.0 mm. Fiji. BORDAU 1, stn CP 1398, 16°22’S, 179°56’W, 907-912 m, 24.II.1999, 3♀♀ cl 37.5-53.2 mm, 6 juveniles (MNHN-Pa 1768). — Stn CP 1400, 16°28’S, 179°50’W, 1004-1012 m, 25.II.1999, 1 ♂ cl 36.2 mm, 2 ♀♀ cl 34.8-41.8 mm, 33 juveniles (MNHN-Pa 1767). — Stn CP 1401, 16°35’S, 179°41’W, 600-648 m, 25.II.1999, 1 ♂ cl 19.9 mm, 1 ♀ cl 24.9 mm, 1 juvenile (MNHN-Pa 1766).

DISTRIBUTION. — Northwestern Australia to Indonesia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, the Philippines, Japan, Taiwan and for the first time from the Solomon Islands and Fiji;

200-1354 m ( Ahyong & Brown 2002). REMARKS

As indicated by Ahyong & Brown (2002), Pacific specimens reported as P. phosphorus ( Alcock, 1894) by Galil (2000) are referable to P. galil . The present specimens, the first to be reported from the Fiji and the Solomon Islands, agree in almost all respects with the holotype. In the smallest specimens, the second row of spinules on the ventral surface of the palm of the first pereopod is poorly developed.