Wolffogebia phuketensis Sakai, 1982

Dworschak, Peter C. & Anker, Arthur, 2022, Axiidea (Crustacea: Callianassidae, Callichiridae and Ctenochelidae) and Gebiidea (Upogebiidae) collected during the Comprehensive Marine Biodiversity Survey of Singapore, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 70, pp. 108-133 : 130

Wolffogebia phuketensis Sakai, 1982

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Wolffogebia phuketensis Sakai, 1982: 75 , figs. 17a, 18c, d, 20b; — Ngoc-Ho, 1994: 213, fig. 12; — Ngoc-Ho et al., 2001: 108; — Sakai & Türkay, 2014: 157.

CMBS material. 1 male (15/4.6) ( ZRC 2018.0546 ) , sta. SW126, Sungei Buloh, 1°27.064′N 103°43.319′E, mangrove, in mud, beach seine and hand nets, intertidal (low tide), coll. KS Koh, YL Lee et al., 30 October 2012 (JS-2695); 1 male (37/10.3) ( NHMW 26036 ) , sta. SW137, Pulau Ubin, OBS Camp 1, 1°25′15.77″N 103°55′57.00″E, near brackish stream in secondary forest, low tide, coll. R Lasley, JC Mendoza, 31 October 2012 (JS-3001) .

Description. See Sakai (1982) and Ngoc-Ho (1994).

Distribution. Phuket, Thailand ( Sakai, 1982, type locality); Can Gio, Vietnam ( Marin, 2021); Singapore ( Ngoc-Ho, 1994); Sumatra, Indonesia ( Sakai & Türkay, 2014).

Habitat. Intertidal, in thick mangrove mud ( Ngoc-Ho, 1994; Marin, 2021; this study).

Figures

Fig. 1. Specimens, habitus (dorsal and/or ventral views), showing colouration in life: a, Gourretia sinica Liu & Liu, 2010, female (23/5.3) (ZRC 2017.0947); b, Karumballichirus karumba (Poore & Griffin, 1979), female (32/7.6) (ZRC 2018.0526); c, Aqaballianassa brevirostris Sakai, 2002, ovigerous female (28/5.6) (ZRC 2017.0948); d, Upogebia singaporensis, new species, female holotype (16/5.4) (ZRC 2017.0951); e, f, Neogebicula johorensis, new species, male holotype (18/5.6) (ZRC 2017.0956); g, h, same, ovigerous female paratype (21/6.3) (ZRC 2017.0955); i, j, Wolffogebia phuketensis Sakai, 1982, male (37/10.3) (NHMW 26036). Not to scale. [Photographs by AA].