Orientomysis serrata ( Liu and Wang, 1980 ) Fukuoka & Murano, 2005

Fukuoka, Kouki & Murano, Masaaki, 2005, A revision of East Asian Acanthomysis (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae) and redefinition of Orientomysis, with description of a new species, Journal of Natural History 39 (9), pp. 657-708 : 692

Orientomysis serrata ( Liu and Wang, 1980) comb. nov.

Acanthomysis serrata Liu and Wang 1980: 328 , Figure 4 (8–14); 1986: 195; Müller 1993: 198 (list); Liu and Wang 2000: 250–251.

Type locality

22 ° 009N, 113 ° 309E, off Guangdong, southern China .

Material examined

One male (7.4 mm) and one female (6.8 mm), 22 ° 009N, 113 ° 309E, off Guangdong, southern China, 6–8 m, soft mud bottom, 21 February 1959, on loan from Liu and Wang .

Remarks

Orientomysis serrata resembles O. meridionalis and O. okayamaensis in characters of the abdominal somites and the armature of the telson. Differences among these three species are summarized in Table VI.

Distribution

This species is known only from the depths of 6–8 m in the South China Sea off Guangdong, southern China ( Liu and Wang 1980).

Figures

Figure 4. Orientomysis japonica Marukawa, 1928. Distal end of telson, dorsal. (A) Female (13.9 mm), Kashima, Pacific, NSMT-Cr 15569; (B) male (10.2 mm), Uchiura Bay, Pacific, NSMT-Cr 15560; (C) female (broken), Uchiura Bay, Pacific, NSMT-Cr 15560; (D) male (11.8 mm), type of Acanthomysis nakazatoi, Iwai, Pacific; (E) male (11.7 mm), type of A. nakazatoi, Iwai, Pacific; (F) female (10.2 mm), Tateyama Bay, Pacific, NSMT-Cr 15562; (G) female (11.5 mm), Japan Sea side of Aomori, NSMT-Cr 15571; (H) female (11.4 mm), Japan Sea side of Aomori, NSMT-Cr 15571; (I) female (13.0 mm), Tottori, Japan Sea, NSMT-Cr 15572; (J) female (15.8 mm), Tottori, Japan Sea, NSMT-Cr 15572.