Thomassinia moorea Poore, 1997

Poore, Gary C. B., 2015, Rediagnosis of Callianideidae and its genera (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea), and description of a new species of Heardaxius Sakai, 2011, Zootaxa 3995 (1), pp. 229-240 : 239

Thomassinia moorea Poore, 1997

( Fig. 1 j, 4c)

Thomassinia moorea Poore, 1997: 416 , fig. 38.

Garyia moorea .— Sakai 2011: 531 –533, figs 71, 72.

Material examined. French Polynesia, Moorea I., 17°29.23'S, 149°53.02'W, intertidal reef flat, NMV J60849 (1 subadult male, cl. 3.0 mm; 2 females, cl. 3.5 mm). Motu I., 17°29.26'S, 149°54.1'W, FMNH UF29262 (one specimen from 13 lots collected).

Remarks. The species was described on the basis of only its holotype male. More than a dozen specimens were collected at Moorea Island, French Polynesia, near the type locality, by the Florida Museum of Natural History in 2008 and 2010. The appendix interna on pleopod 2 is the same as in the type species ( Fig. 4 e). The synonymy was discussed under the genus heading above.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Heardaxius rogerbamberi n. sp. Holotype. a, b, habitus in lateral and dorsal views. c, coxa of pereopods 2 – 4 and thoracic sternite 7 in ventral view (male and female gonopores arrowed). d, left cheliped. e, pleomere 6, telson and uropods. Dissected left maxilliped 3, mesial views. f, Heardaxius rogerbamberi, holotype. g, Thomassinia aimsae (MNHN IU- 2013 - 7082). h, i, Thomassinia gebioides, with detail of meral setae (FMNH UF 38171). j, Thomassinia moorea (FMNH UF 29264). Black scale bars = 1 mm; white scale bar (f, g, i,, j) = 0.1 mm).