Automate dolichognatha ( De Man , 1888 )

Anker, Arthur, Pratama, Idham Sumarto, Firdaus, Muhammad & Rahayu, Dwi Listyo, 2015, On some interesting marine decapod crustaceans (Alpheidae, Laomediidae, Strahlaxiidae) from Lombok, Indonesia, Zootaxa 3911 (3), pp. 301-342 : 317

Automate dolichognatha ( De Man, 1888)

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Selected synonymy (important Indo-West Pacific records only):

Automate dolichognatha De Man 1888: 529 , pl. 22, fig. 5; Coutière 1897: 234; Coutière 1899: 41 et seq. (see Chace & Forest 1970: 1475, for full page and figure numbers); Lanchester 1901: 564, pl. 34, figs. 3, 3a; Coutière 1905: 856, fig. 128d; De Man 1911: 139; Edmondson 1925: 9; Banner & Banner 1973: 299, fig. 1; Bhuti et al. 1977: 590, fig. 1; Banner & Banner 1978: 237; Banner & Banner 1983: 82; Miya 1984: 82, fig. 3 A, B; Banner & Banner 1985: 34; Chace 1988: 64; Miya 1995: 287; Hayashi 1995: 520, figs. 285, 286; Nomura et al. 1996: 12; Bruce & Coombes 1997: 325; Jeng 1997: 56; Nomura et al. 1998: 43; Nomura & Asakura 1998: 28

Automate dolicognatha (lap. cal.).— Hayashi et al. 1994: 271.

Not Automate dolichognatha .— Ledoyer 1970: 127, pls. 18, 24B (= Bermudacaris sp.).

(?) Automate Gardineri Coutière 1902: 337 ; Coutière 1903: 72, figs. 1–7; Coutière 1905: 854, figs. 127, 128a–c.

Automate gardineri .— Edmondson 1925: 9; Holthuis 1958: 17, fig. 6; Banner & Banner 1964: 85; Miyake & Miya 1966: 137, fig. 2; Banner & Banner 1966a: 150; Banner & Banner 1966b: 37, fig. 8; Banner & Banner 1967: 261; Banner & Banner 1968: 269; Johnson 1976: 42; Kikuchi & Miyake 1978: 23; Kazmi & Kazmi 1979: 153.

Automate gardeneri (lap. cal.).— Afzal et al. 1986: 339.

Automate cf. Automate gardineri .— Suvatti 1937: 47.

Automate johnsoni Chace 1955: 13 , fig. 7; Banner, 1956: 321.

(?) Automate sp. De Man 1911: 140, (1915) pl. 1, fig. 2.

Material examined. Indonesia. 1 specimen (sex not determinable) ( MZB Cru 4046), southern Lombok, Tanjung Aan (east of Kuta), degraded coral reef flat with some seagrass and abundant rubble, under large pieces of coral rubble, 0.5–1 m, leg. D.L. Rahayu et al., 15 May 2014 [LB-St7-44]; 1 ov. female ( RMNH. CRUS.D.56741), same collection data [LB-St7-24]; 3 ov. females ( OUMNH.ZC. 2014-10-11), same collection data [LB-St7-29]; 1 specimen (sex not determinable) ( MZB Cru 4055), western Lombok, Teluk Medana, seagrass flat with sand, mud, some rubble-gravel, burrow, suction pump and digging/sieving, 0.2–0.7 m, 12 May 2014 [LB-St3-27].

Taxonomic account. See De Man (1888) and Banner & Banner (1973).

Habitat. Coral and rocky reefs and adjacent sand or seagrass flats with abundant rubble; under rocks and rubble, occasionally infaunal in burrows of other animals, e.g., acorn worms, Balanoglossus misakiensis Kuwano ( Miya 1984) . Depth range: intertidal to at least 40 m.

Distribution. Pantropical (but see below): Indo-West Pacific from the Red Sea and Madagascar to Japan, Australia and Hawaii; also eastern Pacific, western and central Atlantic (e.g., Chace 1972; Banner & Banner 1973; Manning & Chace 1990; Christoffersen 1998; Wicksten & Hendrickx 2003).

Remarks. Automate dolichognatha , probably a pantropical species complex, needs a thorough taxonomic revision, with re-examination of type specimens (if extant) of several nominal species currently placed in the synonymy of A. dolichognatha ( A. gardineri Coutière, 1902 , A. kingsleyi Hay, 1917 , A. johnsoni Chace, 1955 , A. haightae Boone, 1931 ), as well as A. talismani Coutière, 1902 . Molecular analyses of fresh material with extensive geographic coverage will be an essential part in the revision of A. dolichognatha . The material from Lombok could be important for such a revision as at least the Tanjung Aan specimens most likely represent A. dolichognatha s. str. The single, possibly immature specimen from Teluk Medana collected from a burrow of unknown host is tentatively identified as A. dolichognatha , awaiting collection of additional infaunal material.

Figures

FIGURE 12. Automate dolichognatha De Man, 1888: A—ovigerous female (cl 4.4 mm) from Tanjung Aan, Lombok, Indonesia (RMNH. CRUS. D. 56741), dorsolateral view (minor cheliped missing); B—specimen (cl 3.4 mm, sex not determinable) from the same locality (MZB Cru 4046), dorsal view.