Faughnia formosae Manning & Chan, 1997

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Faughnia formosae Manning & Chan, 1997

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Faughnia formosae MANNING & CHAN, 1997 : 546, FIGS. 1 – 4 [TYPE LOCALITY: OFF TAI-SHI, NE TAIwAN].—AHYONG & NAIYANETR 2002: 289.—AHYONG 2004: 11.—AHYONG et al. 2008: 54–55, FIGS . 39, 40.—HwANG et al. 2016: 245–246, FIGS. 1–2 .

Material examined. Tamil Nadu: ZRC, 1 female (TL 81 mm), off Muttom, 21 March 2017 ; DABFUK, 1 female (TL 101 mm), off Muttom, 7°58’N, 76°43’E, ~ 80 m, commercial trawler, 22 March 2017; DABFUK, 1 male (TL 103 mm), off Muttom, 30 January 2017.

Remarks. The specimens exhibit the characteristic diagnostic features of F. formosae , with pronounced longitudinal carination on the telson and a row of spines on the inner margin of the uropodal protopod. Prior to the present study, the westernmost record of Faughnia formosae was from the Andaman Sea off Phuket, Thailand (Ahyong & Naiyanetr 2002). Therefore, present records from the Arabian Sea represent a significant westward range extension and are the first records of the superfamily from India. The only other parasquillid from the western Indian Ocean, Faughnia profunda Manning & MakaroV, 1978, occurs off southeastern Africa including Madagascar; it is readily distinguished from F. formosae by the concaVe instead of straight anterior margins of the lateral plates of the carapace and single instead of multiple longitudinal carinae on the dorsolateral surface of the telson either side of the median carina.

Distribution. Korea, Japan, and Taiwan to the Philippines, Andaman Sea and now the Arabian Sea off India; 40–200 m (Ahyong & Naiyanetr 2002; Hwang et al. 2013).

Figures

FIGURE1. A–B, Lysiosquillina lisa AHYONG &RANDALL,2001,ANTERIOR CEPHALOTHORAx AND DORSAL HABITUS,MOULT,MALE,TL 280 MM, TUTICORIN, DABFUK; C, Odontodactylus cultrifer (WHITE, 1851), MALE, TL 90 MM, MUTTOM, DABFUK; D, Odontodactylus japonicus (DE HAAN,1844), FEMALE,TL 84 MM, MUTTOM,DABFUK; E, Faughnia formosae MANNING & CHAN, 1997, MALE,TL 103 MM,MUTTOM, DABFUK.