Platymaia fimbriata Rathbun, 1916

Islam, Atikul, Banerjee, Abhishek, Wati, Sisca Meida, Banerjee, Sumita, Shrivastava, Deepti & Srivastava, Kumar Chandan, 2022, Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Sea off East and Southeast Asia Collected by the RV Hakuhō Maru (KH- 72 - 1 Cruise) 2. Timor Sea, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology 48 (1), pp. 5-24 : 16

Platymaia fimbriata Rathbun, 1916

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Material examined. RV Hakuhō Maru KH-72-1 cruise, sta. 26 (Timor Sea; 09°27.0′S, 127°58.6′E –09°285.0′S, 127°56.1′E, 610–690 m depth), 3 m beam trawl; June 19, 1972; 1Ə (NSMT-Cr 29262: CL 9.3 mm excluding pseudo- rostral spine, CB 8.7 mm).

RV Hakuhō Maru KH-72-1 cruise, sta. 33 (Off Sahul Shelf, 12°42.2′S, 123°07.6′E – 12°42.0′S, 123°08.5′E, 535–547 m depth), 3 m beam trawl; June 26, 1972; 1Ə (NSMT-Cr 29263: CL 14.0 mm excluding pseudorostral spines, CB 12.6 mm).

Remarks. Of ten Platymaia species enumerated by Ng et al. (2008), P. fimbriata is very unique in having numerous spines on the cara- pace dorsal surface. Both specimens examined are small, but agree well with the original description ( Rathbun, 1916) and the illustrations and photographs by Sakai (1965: pl. 5 fig. 5; 1976: pl. 58), Griffin (1976: fig. 9), and Guinot and Richer de Forges (1985: figs. 7, 8A–B, pl. 1 fig. F–G).

Distribution. Eastern Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan; 250–1095 m depth. Davie (2002) listed this species in the Zoological Catalogue of Australia based on the records by Griffin and Tranter (1986a) and Davie and Short (1989).