Reports of Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) from Chinese waters, with descriptions of two new species
Author
Dong, Chao
Author
Li, Xinzheng
text
Zootaxa
2010
2687
1
28
journal article
47049
10.5281/zenodo.199458
08e56bed-1140-4d4a-b976-3848c01055ff
1175-5326
199458
Galathea spinosorostris
Dana, 1852
Galathea spinoso-rostris
Dana, 1852
: 480
(
type
locality: Sandwich Islands (= Hawaiian Islands)); 1855: pl. 30, fig. 9a–c.
Galathea spinosirostris
. —
Henderson 1893
: 431
[misspelling].
Galathea spinosorostris
. —
Laurie 1926
: 124
. —
Baba 1988
: 78
; 1990: 959; 2005: 245. —
Komai 2000
: 253
. —
Wang 2008
: 749
. —
Baba
et al.
2008
: 77
.
Galathea algae
Baba, 1969b
: 11
, fig. 2 (
type
locality: Tosa Bay,
27 m
).
Material examined. South
China
Sea. Nansha Islands:
MBM
150175
,
1 male
(
1.7 mm
), 1 ovigerous female (
2.4 mm
), Zhubijiao,
26 May 1989
; MBM
150192
,
1 female
(
3.1 mm
), Xiantujiao, CN
SSFV
8-17, coral,
24 Jul.1988
; MBM
150202
,
1 male
(
2.6 mm
),
1 female
(
2.6 mm
), 2 ovigerous females (2.7,
3.1 mm
), Yongshujiao, CN
SSFJ
1-13, 3 m,
17 May 1990
.
Distribution.
Previously known from
Madagascar
, Providence,
Seychelles
, Cargados Carajos, Amirante, Saya de Malha Bank, Red Sea, Chagos, Muttuwar Par, Gulf of Martaban, Andaman Sea, South
China
Sea, Gorong
Island
,
Ternate
, Marsegu
Island
,
Moluccas
,
Palau
Islands, Yap
Island
, Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands), Waikiki Reef, Honolulu, Tuamotu Archipelago,
French Polynesia
; intertidal to
772 m
.
The present record from the South
China
Sea extends the bathymetric range of the species in the South
China
Sea from
22–410 m
to
3–
410 m
.
Remarks.
The specimens agree with the previous discriptions of the species.
Baba (1988)
was the first to report the species from the South
China
Sea.