Rochinia fultoni ( Grant, 1905 )

Forges, Bertrand Richer de & Poore, Gary C. B., 2008, Deep-sea majoid crabs of the genera Oxypleurodon and Rochinia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Epialtidae) mostly from the continental margin of Western Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, pp. 63-70 : 68

Rochinia fultoni ( Grant, 1905)

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Hyastenus Fultoni Grant, 1905: 313 , pl. 11 fig. 1. Rochinia fultoni .— Griffin, 1966: 280.— Griffin and Tranter,

1986a: 176.— Poore, 2004: 387, fig. 118f. — Ng and Richer de Forges,

2007: 62.

Material examined. Australia. Tas. Eastern Bass Strait , 100 km NE of North Point, Flinders I., (38°52.36'S, 148°25.12'E), 140 m, 15 Nov 1981 (stn BSS 170 S), NMV J4730 (2 ovigerous females 15.0 x 10.0 mm, 11.3 x 7.5 mm; male 11.7 x 7.0 mm) . 70 km ENE of North Point, Flinders I. (39°28.24'S, 148°41.48'E), 110 m, 28 Mar 1979 (stn BSS 35 ), NMV J23091 (juvenile) . 37 km NE of Cape Tourville (41°52.52'S – 41°59.34'S, 148°37.56'E –148° 31 08'E), 124 m, 30 Oct 1988 (stn SLOPE 85 ), NMV J16059 (male). Vic . W of Cape Nelson , 183 m, 06 Jun 1969, NMV J8610 (male, ovigerous female)

Remarks. This species has already been mentioned from the east and south coasts of Australia. Most records in Museum

Victoria are from the continental margin of eastern Bass Strait .

Figures

Figure 2. Lateral and dorsal views, scale = 5 mm. a, Rochinia fultoni (female, NMV J4730). b, Rochinia pulchra (female, NMV J55947). c, Rochinia sibogae (male, NMV J58142). d, Rochinia strangeri (female, NMV J55427).