Polycheles surdus Galil, 2000

Ahyong, Shane T. & Galil, Bella S., 2006, Polychelidae from the southern and western Pacific (Decapoda, Polychelida), Zoosystema 28 (3), pp. 757-767 : 765

Polycheles surdus Galil, 2000

Polycheles surdus Galil, 2000: 347-349 , fig. 26 (type locality: off Mozambique, 18°14’S, 37°31’E). — Ahyong & Brown 2002: 75-76.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Austral Islands. BENTHAUS, stn CP 1891, E of Rapa, 27°37.1’S, 144°15.4’W, 800- 850 m, 7.XI.2002, 1 ♂ cl 44.3 mm. — Stn CP 1892, E of Rapa, 27°38.8’S, 144°15.6’W, 742-1000 m, 7.XI.2002, 1 ♀ cl 23.1 mm. — Stn CP 1967, Tubuai, 23°21.4’S, 149°34.2’W, 600-1200 m, 19.XI.2002, 2 ♀♀ cl 19.2- 24.0 mm.

DISTRIBUTION. — Western Indian Ocean to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Hawaii, the Nazca Ridge, French Polynesia, and for the first time from the Austral Islands; 350-1525 m ( Galil 2000).

REMARKS

The lateral carapace spination of the present series, 6:3-4:11-12, is within the reported range ( Galil 2000). Polycheles surdus from the Marquesas archipelago, French Polynesia, is figured in colour at http://biomar.free.fr/polycheles_auriculatus. html.