Actaeodes mutatus Guinot 1976

Iwasa-Arai, Tammy, McCallum, Anna W. & Taylor, Joanne, 2015, Oceanic Shoals Commonwealth Marine Reserve survey reveals new records of xanthid crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from northern Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 73, pp. 1-11 : 2

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https://doi.org/ 10.24199/j.mmv.2015.73.01

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8071750

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scientific name

Actaeodes mutatus Guinot 1976
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Actaeodes mutatus Guinot 1976 View in CoL View at ENA

( Figure 1A View Figure 1 )

Actaea areolata Dana, 1852b: 162 View in CoL .— Dana, 1855: pl. 8 fig. 1.—A.

Milne Edwards, 1865: 264 (not Actaeodes areolatus Dana, 1852a: 77 View in CoL ). Actaea areolata? Miers, 1884: 209 View in CoL .—Rathbun, 1924: 16. Actaeodes areolatus View in CoL ; Guinot, 1967: 561.— Sakai, 1976: 449. Actaeodes mutatus Guinot, 1976: 247 View in CoL .— Serène, 1984: 133 (key) 134 (key).— Morgan, 1990: 41.— Davie, 2002: 513.

Material examined. NMV J46921 View Materials About NMV , 1 female (Cb = 18.1 mm, Cl = 11.5 mm), northern Australia, Arafura Sea, Survey SS 2012t 07 Stn 12 (acq. 272), 10°57.76–57.79'S, 136°48.03–48.03'E, 60.6–62.8 m, benthic sled, 18 Oct 2012 .

Colour in preservative. Carapace reddish brown with orange granules on the lobes. Ambulatory legs brown with beige setae. Chelipeds reddish brown with orange granules on the lobes dorsally, and beige ventrally, fingers black. Abdomen brown with beige setae.

Remarks. Acteodes mutatus occurs across tropical Australia and the Indo-West Pacific. It is similar to Acteodes semoni (Ortmann, 1894) but can be distinguished by the basal antennal segment which fills the orbital hiatus that is normally open, whereas in A. semoni the basal antennal segment is excluded from the orbit. Another character used to define A. mutatus is the subdivision of 3M into three parts. In our specimen this subdivision is not well defined. However, it is likely this character is variable within the species.

Distribution. Indo-west Pacific (Mergui Archipelago, to southern Japan, and east to French Polynesia) ( Davie, 2002).

NMV

Museum Victoria

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Xanthidae

Genus

Actaeodes

Loc

Actaeodes mutatus Guinot 1976

Iwasa-Arai, Tammy, McCallum, Anna W. & Taylor, Joanne 2015
2015
Loc

Actaea areolata

Dana, J. D. 1852: 162
1852
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