Rochinia strangeri Serène and Lohavanijaya, 1973

Forges, Bertrand Richer de & Poore, Gary C. B., 2008, Deep-sea majoid crabs of the genera Oxypleurodon and Rochinia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Epialtidae) mostly from the continental margin of Western Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, pp. 63-70 : 69

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scientific name	Rochinia strangeri Serène and Lohavanijaya, 1973
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Rochinia strangeri Serène and Lohavanijaya, 1973 View in CoL

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Rochinia strangeri Serène and Lohavanijaya, 1973: 57 View in CoL , figs

123–128, pl. 11B, C.— Griffin and Tranter, 1986a: 175 (key).— Ng and

Richer de Forges, 2007: 62.— Poore et al., 2008: 56. Rochinia aff. s trangeri.— Serène and Vadon, 1981: 128, pl. 4D.

Material examined. Australia. WA. Abrolhos (29°03.39'S, 29°04.41'S, 113°38.10'E – 113°37.48'E), 1000–1037 m, 02 Dec 2005 (stn SS10/2005 084), NMV J55427 About NMV (ovigerous female 11.0 x 6.8 mm) GoogleMaps .

Remarks. This species was described by Serène and Lohavanijaya (1973) from only two specimens from the South China Sea. The closest species is R. riversandersoni ( Alcock, 1895) from India. Serène and Vadon (1981), in a preliminary list of Brachyura from the MUSORSTOM collection in the Philippines, mentioned a specimen as Rochinia aff. strangeri . The photograph of this specimen looks very similar to the specimen from south-western Australia (29°S).

References

Alcock, A. 1895. Materials for a carcinological fauna of India. No. 1. The Brachyura Oxyrhyncha. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 64: 157 - 291, pls 153 - 155.

Griffin, D. J. G., and Tranter, H. A. 1986 a. The Decapoda Brachyura of the Siboga Expedition. Part VIII Majidae. Siboga Expeditie 39: 1 - 335.

Ng, P. K. L., and Richer de Forges, B. 2007. A new species of deepwater spider crab of the genus Rochinia A. Milne-Edwards, 1875, from Guam (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majidae). Zootaxa 1610: 61 - 68.

Poore, G. C. B., McCallum, A. W., and Taylor, J. 2008. Decapod Crustacea of the continental margin of south-western and central Western Australia: preliminary identifications of 524 species from FRV Southern Surveyor voyage SS 10 - 2005. Museum Victoria Science Reports 11: 1 - 106.

Serene, R., and Lohavanijaya, P. 1973. The Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) collected by the Naga Expedition, including a review of the Homolidae. Naga Report. Scientific Results of Marine Investigations of the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand 4: 1 - 186, 186 figs, 121 pls.

Serene, R., and Vadon, C. 1981. Crustaces Decapodes: Brachyoures. Liste preliminaire, description de formes nouvelles et remarques taxonomiques. Pp. 117 - 140 in Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM. 1. Philippines (18 - 28 mars 1976). Vol. 1. ORSTOM - Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris.

Figures

Figure 2. Lateral and dorsal views, scale = 5 mm. a, Rochinia fultoni (female, NMV J4730). b, Rochinia pulchra (female, NMV J55947). c, Rochinia sibogae (male, NMV J58142). d, Rochinia strangeri (female, NMV J55427).