Paromolopsis boasi Wood-Mason, 1891

Ng, Peter K. L. & Forges, Bertrand Richer de, 2017, On a collection of Homolidae from the South China Sea, with descriptions of two new species of Homologenus A. Milne-Edwards, in Henderson, 1888, and the identities of Homologenus malayensis Ihle, 1912, and Lamoha superciliosa (Wood-Mason, in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65, pp. 243-268 : 251

Paromolopsis boasi Wood-Mason , in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891

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Paromolopsis boasi Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891: 268 , fig. 5 (for complete synonymy, see Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995: 355; Richer de Forges & Ng, 2008: 32 ; Ahyong et al., 2009: 115, fig. 82).

Material examined. 1 male (31.4 × 26.9 mm) ( ZRC 2016.0563 ), station CP 4118, continental shelf off Tungsha Island , 20°00.76′N 115°00.83′E – 20°01.28′N 115°02.12′E, Taiwan, South China Sea, 700–723 m, trawl, coll. NANHAI 2014 Cruise, 12 January 2014 . – 1 male (19.8 × 17.5 mm), 1 female (20.1 × 17.4 mm) ( ZRC 2016.0564 ), station CP 4128, off Tungsha Island , 20°44.86′N 116°08.01′E – 20°42.28′N 116°08.01′E, Taiwan, South China Sea, 420–444 m, trawl, coll. DONGSHA 2014 Cruise, 1 May 2014 . – 1 male (20.5 × 18.2 mm), 1 male (20.1 × 17.7 mm) ( ZRC 2016.0565 ), station CP 4137, continental slope off Tungsha Island , 19°53.06′N 114°21.68′E – 19°53.03′N 114°24.74′E, Taiwan, South China Sea, 524–536 m, trawl, coll. ZHONGSHA 2015 Cruise, 23 July 2015 . – 1 female (18.8 × 17.1 mm) ( ZRC 2016.0566 ), station CP 4155, northeast of Macclesfield Bank , 16°13.60′N 115°01.61′E – 16°11.21′N 114°59.77′E, Taiwan, South China Sea, 510–526 m, trawl, coll. ZHONGSHA 2015 Cruise, 28 July 2015 .

Colour. The colour in life is a typical orangish-brown on the carapace and ambulatory legs ( Fig. 24H ) (see also Ahyong et al., 2009: fig. 82).

Remarks. The taxonomy of this widely distributed Indo- West Pacific species has been discussed at length by Guinot & Richer de Forges (1995).

Figures

Fig. 24. Colour in life, A–H from South China Sea; I, J from Papua New Guinea and Bismarck Sea. A, Lamoha longirostris (Chen, 1986), female (24.9 × 20.3 mm) (ZRC 2016.0555); B, Lamoha murotoensis (Sakai, 1979), male (20.8 × 18.4 mm) (ZRC 2016.0200); C, Paromola macrochira Sakai, 1961, female (16.5 × 11.4 mm) (ZRC 2016.0560); D, Paromola macrochira Sakai, 1961, female (16.3 × 11.1 mm) (ZRC 2016.0562); E, Moloha majora (Kubo, 1936), male (54.8 × 47.8 mm) (ZRC 2016.0197); F, Homolochunia gadaletae Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995, ovigerous female (34.1 × 26.4 mm) (ZRC 2016.0198); G, Homolomania sibogae Ihle, 1912, male (15.4 × 11.3 mm) (ZRC 2016.0199); H, Paromolopsis boasi Wood-Mason, in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891, male (20.1 × 17.7 mm) (ZRC 2016.0565); I, Homologenus malayensis Ihle, 1912, ovigerous female (16.0 × 13.9 mm) (MNHN-IU-2015-80); J, Homologenus malayensis Ihle, 1912, ovigerous female (14.9 × 9.9 mm) (MNHN-IU-2014-8052).