Heterolithadia fallax (Henderson, 1893)

Galil, Bella S. & Ng, Peter K. L., 2015, Leucosiid crabs from Papua New Guinea, with descriptions of eight new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), Zootaxa 4027 (4), pp. 451-486 : 457

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4027.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3B32D183-45BA-41F9-82A9-C9C108D53899

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6102237

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8870B305-E337-4C11-9699-FC2E8D2588FD

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Heterolithadia fallax (Henderson, 1893)
status

 

Heterolithadia fallax (Henderson, 1893) View in CoL

( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 B–D)

Material examined. 1 male (8.7 mm) ( ZRC 2014.0172), stn PS22, north Tadwai I., 04°59.1'S 145°47.6'E, 11 m, 22.11.2012; 1 female (13.1 mm) ( ZRC 2014.0168); 1 female (9.5 mm) (MNHN-IU-2013-1195), stn PD66, south Yabob I., 05°15.5'S 145°47.3'E, 2–6 m, 3.12.2012; 1 male (8.1 mm) (MNHN-IU-2013-17892), stn PS42, S Urembo I., outer slope, 05°15,9'S 145°47,1'E, 18–27 m, 6.12.2012; 1 broken female (MNHN-IU-2013-1494), stn CP4035, east Kotakot, 04°31'S 145°31'E, 380–382 m, 17.12.2012.

Colour in life. Carapace bone-coloured, posteriorly mottled red-brown; cheliped merus proximally stained red-brown, fingers mottled with pale brown; ambulatory legs proximally reddish-brown ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 B–D).

Geographical distribution. India to Philippines ( Tan 1996), Vanuatu ( Galil & Ng 2010). New record for Papua New Guinea.

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

InfraOrder

Brachyura

Family

Leucosiidae

SubFamily

Ebaliinae

Genus

Heterolithadia

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