Ctenocheles plantei ( Burukovsky, 2005 ) Burukovsky, 2005

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Ctenocheles plantei ( Burukovsky, 2005) comb. nov.

Thaumastochelopsis plantei BurukOvSky, 2005 : 501 –513, fig. 1.— Chan 2010: 156.

Remarks. Doflein (1906) recorded Thaumastocheles japonicus Calman, 1913 (as T. zaleucus (Thomson, 1873)) , from Japan. Species of Thaumastocheles Wood-Mason, 1874 and Thaumastochelopsis Bruce, 1988 , astacidean lobster genera of the family Nephropidae ( Chan 2010) carry a major cheliped with elongate pectinate fingers highly convergent with that of species of Ctenocheles . A free cheliped associated with Doflein’s material was recognised as not belonging to Thaumastocheles by Balss (1914) who thought it possibly a species of the polychelid lobster genus Pentacheles Spence Bate, 1878 . Kishinouye (1926) included Balss’s taxon in the synonymy of C. balssi . Burukovsky (2005) seems to have fallen into the same trap. His figures of the rostrum, carapace, telson, uropods and pereopods of Thaumastochelopsis plantei are clearly those of a species of Ctenocheles , not of a nephropid ( Chan 2010). The species is transferred. It is the first record of the genus from the Indian Ocean.