Trogloplax joliveti Guinot, 1986

Ng, Peter K. L. & Castro, Peter, 2016, Revision of the family Chasmocarcinidae Serène, 1964 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Goneplacoidea), Zootaxa 4209 (1), pp. 1-182 : 134-136

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4209.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5617265

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Trogloplax joliveti Guinot, 1986
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Trogloplax joliveti Guinot, 1986 View in CoL

( Figs. 93 View FIGURE 93 E–H; 94E, F, J; 95G, H; 97; E–J; 98E–J, 99G, H)

Trogloplax joliveti Guinot, 1986: 308 View in CoL , pls. 1, 2 [type locality: Papua New Guinea]; 1987: 25, pl. 2, fig. H, I; 1988: 22, 30, 39, pl. 4, figs. 15–17.—Ng et al. 2008: 76 [in list].— Guinot et al. 2013: 42, 279, fig. 24A, B.— Davie et al. 2015a: fig. 71-2.31.

Type material. Holotype male (16.0 × 21.0 mm) (MNHN-IU-2014-10457, ex MNHN-B12793), Papua New Guinea, New Britain, Whiteman Range, Kandrian zone, Arrakis cave system, 300 m from entrance, on sandbar of river, 650 m, P. Jolivet coll., 1985.

Other material examined. Papua New Guinea. New Britain , Papua New Guinea, 1 paratype male (20.0 × 27.0 mm), 1 juvenile (5.0 × 8.5 mm) (MNHN-IU-2014-10458, ex MNHN-B12794), same data as holotype; 1 male (15.7 × 18.6 mm) ( ZRC 2015.294 View Materials , ex MNHN-IU-2013-13099, ex MNHN-B20136), Whiteman Mts. , Kandrian zone, cave in Arrakis System, Kukumbu hill, Association pyrénénne de Spéléolologie coll., 1987 ; 1 male (15.0 × 17.7 mm), 2 females (11.8 × 13.7 mm, 15.5 × 18.4 mm) (MNHN-IU-2013-13097, ex MNHN-B27890), 1 female (14.1 × 16.8 mm) ( ZRC 2015.295 View Materials ), Whiteman Mts. , Kauchian region, Kandrian zone, cave in Arrakis System, 650 m from entrance, Akenatan Gulf, S. Fulcraud coll., 0 8.2001.

Diagnosis. As for genus.

Remarks. Trogloplax joliveti is a freshwater, blind, troglobitic species that is presumed to have evolved from a marine ancestor rather than from a freshwater or terrestrial one ( Guinot 1986: 307). The species has only been recorded from a sand bank bordering freshwater in an inland karst cave in New Britain, Papua New Guinea ( Guinot 1986). A female specimen (MNHN-IU-2013-13097) had a conspicuous sperm plug.

Distribution. Only known from Papua New Guinea (New Britain), inland cave.

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Chasmocarcinidae

Genus

Trogloplax

Loc

Trogloplax joliveti Guinot, 1986

Ng, Peter K. L. & Castro, Peter 2016
2016
Loc

Trogloplax joliveti

Guinot 2013: 42
Guinot 1986: 308
1986
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