Micas afecundus (Lucas, 1980)

Poore, Gary C. B., Guinot, Danièle, Komai, Tomoyuki & Naruse, Tohru, 2016, Reappraisal of species attributed to Halicarcinus White, 1846 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) with diagnosis of four new genera and one new species from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4093 (4), pp. 480-514 : 494

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.4.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5668408
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scientific name	Micas afecundus (Lucas, 1980)
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Micas afecundus (Lucas, 1980) View in CoL

Halicarcinus afecundus Lucas, 1980: 185 View in CoL –186, figs 3G, 6M. — Ng et al. 2008: 108. Micas afecundus View in CoL .— Ng & Richer de Forges 1996: 265.

Distribution. Central Queensland, Australia.

Remarks. Halicarcinus afecundus , from Lindeman I., Queensland, Australia, was assigned to Micas by Ng & Richer de Forges (1996) on account of the short ‘trilobed’ rostrum, longitudinal groove on the cardiac region, elongate ambulatory dactyli and pleomeres 2–5 fused. They did not remark on the two subterminal dactylar teeth on pereopods 2–5 which also uniquely characterise this genus. Ng et al. (2008) catalogued it as a species of Halicarcinus without explanation.