Parathranites orientalis ( Miers, 1886 ) GERYONIDAE Colosi, 1923

Muñoz, Isabel, García-Isarch, Eva & Cuesta, Jose A., 2021, Annotated and updated checklist of marine crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) of Mozambique supported by morphological and molecular data from shelf and slope species of the “ MOZAMBIQUE ” surveys, Zootaxa 5056 (1), pp. 1-67 : 40-41

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scientific name	Parathranites orientalis ( Miers, 1886 ) GERYONIDAE Colosi, 1923
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Parathranites orientalis ( Miers, 1886)

( Figure 13G View FIGURE 13 , preserved)

Material examined. M07, Stn. 62, 174m, ♂ 25.5× 17mm; ♀ 31.1×21, ♀ 24,1× 16.9mm (IEO-CD-MZ07/1909).

Habitat and distribution. Japan, Chine, Philippines, Indonesia, east coast of Australia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga and Futuna in a depth range of 80–405m, Madagascar at 235–455m depth, and east coast of South Africa.

Results and remarks. These two specimens were collected in M07, at the same station at 174m depth. They agree well with the description and figures in Crosnier (2002), being the first record of P. orientalis off Mozambique.

Colouration observed. The carapace was bright orange, with some more reddish areas and white anterolateral sides. The legs were bright orange with narrow white bands in the proximal zones of merus and carpus and in the proximal and distal areas of propodus. Dactyli of P5 were transparent.

DNA barcodes. The specimen was preserved in formalin and therefore, it was not possible to get DNA sequences.

Family GERYONIDAE Colosi, 1923

According to Davie et al. (2015a) this family comprises five genera and 39 species. Geryonidae includes some species of high commercial interest, such as the pink Geryon Chaceon macphersoni Manning & Holthuis, 1988 ( Doherty 2015; Groenevel et al. 2013).

Subfamily GERYONINAE Colosi, 1923

Family GERYONIDAE Colosi, 1923

References

Colosi, G. (1923) Una specie fossile di Gerionide (Decapodi brachiuri). Bolettino della Societa dei Naturalisti in Napoli, 35, Series 2, 15 (37), 248 - 225.

Crosnier, A. (2002) Revision du genre Parathranites Miers, 1886 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Portunidae). Zoosystema, 24 (4), 799 - 825.

Davie, P. J. F., Guinot, D. & Ng, P. K. L. (2015 a) Systematics and classification of Brachyura. In: Castro, P., Davie, P. J. F., Guinot, D., Schram, F. & Von Vaupel Klein, J. C. (Eds.), Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Crustacea, 9 C (I), Decapoda: Brachyura. Part 2. Brill, Leiden and Boston, pp. 1049 - 1130. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 9789004190832 _ 021

Doherty, B., McBride, M. M., Brito, A. J., Le Manach, F., Sousa, L., Chauca, I. & Zeller, D. (2015) Marine fisheries in Mozambique: catches updated to 2010 and taxonomic disaggregation. In: Le Manach, F. & Pauly, D. (Eds.), Fisheries catch reconstructions in the Western Indian Ocean, 1950 - 2010. Fisheries Centre Research Reports. 23 (2). Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, pp. 67 - 81.

Manning, R. B. & Holthuis, L. B. (1988) South African species of the genus Geryon (Crustacea, Decapoda, Geryonidae). Annals of the South African Museum, 98, 77 - 92.

Miers, E. J. (1886) Report on the Brachyura collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. In: Thompson, C. W. & Murray, J. (Eds.), Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger During the Years 1873 - 1876, Zoology, 17. Neill and Company, Edinburg, pp. 1 - 362.

Figures

FIGURE 13. A, Platymaia turbynei, ♂ IEO-CD-MZ07/1924; B, Paramaja gibba, ♀ IEO-CD-MZ08/1820; C, Sakaija africana ♀ IEO-CD-MZ08/1784; D, Pleistacantha ori, ♀ IEO-CD-MZ08/12545; E, Parathranites ori, ♀ IEO-CD-MZ08/1767; F, Paratranites granosus, ♀ IEO-CD-Mz08/1785; G, Parathranites orientalis, ♀ IEO-CD-MZ07/1909 (preserved). Scale bars: 1cm.