Leptonida vigiliarum ( Alcock, 1901 )

Tiwari, Shivam, Padate, Vinay P. & Cubelio, Sherine Sonia, 2023, Chirostyloid and galatheoid squat lobsters (Decapoda: Anomura) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, with three new species, Journal of Natural History 57 (9 - 12), pp. 520-556 : 537

Leptonida vigiliarum ( Alcock, 1901)

( Figures 2 (d), 8, 9, Supplementary Figure S2 )

Munida vigiliarum Alcock, 1901: 243 (type locality: Bay of Bengal, off west coast of Andamans near Sentinel Islands, 173–290 fathoms (= 317–531 m) depth); Baba 2005: 255 (key to species), 276 (synonymies); Baba et al. 2008: 127 (compilation)

Not Munida vigiliarum: Doflein and Balss 1913: 147 , pl. 13, fig. 2 (SW of Great Nicobar, 362 m (see ′Remarks̍); Tirmizi 1966: 201, fig. 20 [= Gonionida shaula (Macpherson and de Saint Laurent, 2002) ]

Figures

Figure 2. Dorsal habitus. (a) Gastroptychus valdiviae (Balss, 1913). male, 6.0 mm PCL (IO/SS/ANO/ 00127); (b) Grimothea krishaha sp. nov. holotype, female, 3.5 mm PCL (IO/SS/ANO/00134); (c) Grimothea sp., female, 3.2 mm PCL (IO/SS/ANO/00143); (d) Leptonida vigiliarum (Alcock, 1901), male, 6.2 mm PCL (IO/SS/ANO/00133); (e) Trapezionida aequispina sp. nov. holotype, female, 7.0 mm PCL (IO/SS/ANO/00137); (f) Trapezionida bharuchai sp. nov. holotype, male, 4.7 mm PCL (IO/SS/ANO/ 00130); Leiogalathea sp., undetermined sex, 2.9 mm PCL (IO/SS/ANO/00126); (g) carapace, dorsal view; (h) P1, dorsal view. Scale bars: a, b, d–f, h = 2.0 mm; c, g = 1.0 mm.