Cyrtomaia owstoni Terazaki, 1903

Lee, Bee Yan, Forges, Bertrand Richer De & Ng, Peter K. L., 2017, Deep-sea spider crabs of the families Epialtidae MacLeay, 1838 and Inachidae MacLeay, 1838, from the South China Sea, with descriptions of two new species (Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea), European Journal of Taxonomy 358, pp. 1-37 : 29-30

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.358
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3852140
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scientific name	Cyrtomaia owstoni Terazaki, 1903
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Cyrtomaia owstoni Terazaki, 1903: 239 , 240 (un-numbered text-fig.) (type locality: Misaki, Japan).

Cyrtomaja owstoni [sic] – Sakai 1938: 240, pl. 35 fig. 1; 1965: 71, pl. 31 fig. 2.

Cyrtomaia owstoni – Serène & Lohavanijaya 1973: 45 (key), 46–47, figs 73–78, pl. 7 C, D. — Sakai 1976: 178 (key), 179, pl. 59. — Griffin 1976: 188. — Griffin & Tranter 1986a: 24 (key), 29–30. — Ikeda 1998: 32–33, pl. 30. — Richer de Forges & Ng 2007: 56 (list). — Ng et al. 2008: 111 (list).

Material examined

SOUTH CHINA SEA: 1 ♂ (22.0 × 24.4 mm) ( ZRC 2016.0088), south of Taiwan bank, stn CP4166, 22°07.62′ N, 118°43.30′ E to 22°03.29′ N, 118°45.46′ E, 587–756 m, coll. ZHONGSHA 2015 Expedition, 1 Aug. 2015; 1 ♂ (11.6 × 12.4 mm), 1 ♀ (17.1 × 18.6 mm) ( ZRC 2016.0087), south of Taiwan Bank, stn CP4165, 22°09.89′ N, 118°42.02′ E to 22°07.29′ N, 118°43.39′ E, 443–618 m, coll. ZHONGSHA 2015 Expedition, 1 Aug. 2015.

Remarks

Cyrtomaia owstoni Terazaki, 1903 , is characterized by the curved branchial spines that are longer than the protogastric spines ( Griffin & Tranter 1986a).

Distribution

The species is known from Japan ( Sakai 1938, 1965, 1976; Ikeda 1998), the Philippines ( Griffin 1976) and South China Sea ( Serène & Lohavanijaya 1973).

References

Griffin D. J. G. 1976. Spider crabs of the family Majidae (Crustacea: Brachyura) from the Philippine Islands. Journal of Natural History 10 (2): 179 - 222.

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

Ikeda H. 1998. The Deep-sea Crabs of Sagami Bay. Hayama Shiosai Museum, Japan. [In Japanese.]

Ng P. K. L., Guinot D. & Davie P. J. F. 2008. Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 17: 1 - 286.

Richer de Forges B. & Ng P. K. L. 2007. Notes on deep-sea spider crabs of the genus Cyrtomaia Miers, 1886, from the Philippines (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majidae), with description of a new species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 16: 55 - 65.

Sakai T. 1938. Studies of the crabs of Japan III. Brachygnatha, Oxyrhyncha, Yokendo Co., Tokyo.

Sakai T. 1965. The Crabs of the Sagami Bay Collected by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. Maruzen Co., Tokyo.

Sakai T. 1976. Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas; Volumes 1 - 3. Kodansha, Tokyo.

Serene R. & 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 (4): 1 - 186.

Terazaki T. 1903. Nippon Kanirui-Zusetu [= On Japanese Crabs]. Zoological Magazine 15 (177): 234 - 241. [In Japanese.]