Metacarcinus A. Milne-Edwards, 1862

Arnes-Urgelles, Camila, Buglass, Salome, Ahyong, Shane T., Salinas-de-Leon, Pelayo, Wicksten, Mary K. & Marsh, Leigh, 2020, Arthropoda; Crustacea; Decapoda of deep-sea volcanic habitats of the Galapagos Marine Reserve, Tropical Eastern Pacific, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 54482-54482 : 54482

Metacarcinus A. Milne-Edwards, 1862

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: CDF Volunteer; behavior: on seafloor; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Image only; associatedMedia: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1913/31778740868_c9cf226f55_o.png; occurrenceID: H1435_122925_Metacarcinus_sp_inc_edwardsii; Taxon: scientificNameID: urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:439213; scientificName: Metacarcinus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Malacostraca; order: Decapoda; family: Cancridae; genus: Metacarcinus; scientificNameAuthorship: A. Milne-Edwards, 1862; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location: locationID: MRGID8403; waterBody: Pacific Ocean; country: Ecuador; stateProvince: Galapagos; locality: North ; verbatimLocality: East of Wolf; minimumDepthInMeters: 327; maximumDepthInMeters: 327; decimalLatitude: 1.2319; decimalLongitude: -91.1137; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 10; Identification: identifiedBy: Shane Ahyong; dateIdentified: 2017; identificationRemarks: ID from imagery only; identificationQualifier: Metacarcinusedwardsii sp. inc.; Event: eventID: NA064; samplingProtocol: Remotely Operated Vehicles; eventDate: 06-27-15; eventTime: 12:29:25 PM; habitat: Seamount; Record Level: language: en; bibliographicCitation: WoRMS (2019). Metacarcinus A. Milne-Edwards, 1862. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=439213 on 2019-08-23; institutionCode: CDF; collectionCode: Arthropoda; datasetName: Video transect framegrabs; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation

Notes

It is very clear from the form of the carapace and chelipeds that this is a member of the Cancridae and subtle details of the carapace margins visible in other photos correspond best to Metacarcinus . Fig. 23

Figures

Figure 23. Metacarcinus edwardsii sp. inc.