Myra digitata Galil 2004

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 : 459

Myra digitata Galil 2004

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Material examined. 1 male (19.6 mm) (MNHN-IU-2013-2010), stn PP06, Rempi Area east Tadwai I., muddy, 04°59'S 145°48'E, 180 m, 19.11.2012.

Colour in life. Carapace mottled with irregular reddish brown patches and spots, lateral posterior denticles bone-coloured, median posterior spine proximally mottled orange, distally white. Cheliped merus mottled reddish brown, with broad brown bands medially and distally; palms proximally white; fingers mottled brown, distally white. Ambulatory legs with 2 brown bands across meri, proximally on carpi, propodi ( Fig. 3 G).

Geographical distribution. South China Sea, Timor Sea; 50–180 m ( Galil 2004). New record for Papua New Guinea.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Colours in life. A, Arcania heptacantha, male (9.1 mm) (MNHN-IU- 2013 - 458), stn PD 14; B, Heterolithadia fallax, female (13.1 mm) (ZRC 2014.0168), stn PD 66; C, Heterolithadia fallax, male (8.7 mm) (ZRC 2014.0172), stn PS 22; D, Heterolithadia fallax, female (9.5 mm) (MNHN-IU- 2013 - 1195), stn PD 66; E, Hiplyra longimana, ovigerous female (14.0 mm) (ZRC 2014.0173); F, Myra curtimana, immature female (9.4 mm) (MNHN-IU- 2013 - 1226), stn PD 74; G, Myra digitata, male (19.6 mm) (MNHN-IU- 2013 - 2010), stn PP 06; H, Myra eudactyla, immature specimen (7.1 mm) (MNHN-IU- 2013 - 609), stn PR 47.