Carcinoplax sinica Chen, 1984

Castro, Peter, 2007, A reappraisal of the family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) and revision of the subfamily Goneplacinae, with the description of 10 new genera and 18 new species, Zoosystema 29 (4), pp. 609-774 : 640

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Carcinoplax sinica Chen, 1984 View in CoL

Carcinoplax sinica Chen, 1984: 189 View in CoL [in key], 190, 197, 200, fig. 2, pl. 1, figs 6, 10; 1998: 266 [in key], 270, 310 [in list], fig. 3 [South China Sea]. — Dai et al. 1986: 366 [in key], 366, figs 190-2 to 190-4, pl. 53, fig. 5 [ China]. — Guinot 1989: 285 [discussion], figs 12-14, pl. 5 [Philippine Is]. — Dai & Yang 1991: 394 [in key], 395, figs 190-2 to 190-4, pl. 53, fig. 5 [ China]. — Hsueh & Huang 2002: 119 [in key], 126, figs 8D, 11 [ Taiwan].

Carcinoplax View in CoL ( purpurea View in CoL ?) – Stephensen 1946: 166, 208, fig. 44 (pl. 5, figs A-C 1 in Guinot [1989]) [Persian Gulf].

Carcinoplax purpurea View in CoL – Serène & Lohavanijaya 1973: 62 [in list], 63 [in key], 66, figs 148-155, pl. 14, figs B, C, pl. 15, fig. B [ Hong Kong, Vietnam, Gulf of Thailand]. — Serène & Vadon 1981: 118, 123 (part) [Philippine Is] (not Carcinoplax purpurea Rathbun, 1914 View in CoL ).

TYPE MATERIAL. — ♂ holotype ( IOAS K248 B-23) ; ♀ allotype ( IOAS X50 B-37) ; 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ paratypes ( IOAS K234 B-44) ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ paratypes ( IOAS Q129 B-39) .

TYPE LOCALITY. — South China Sea, 19°50’N, 109°00’W, 25 m.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Taiwan. Kaohsiung, Tungkang fishing port, L. S. Huang coll., 4.VIII.1996, 1 ♀ ( ZRC 2001.0136).

South China Sea. Stn 6269, 31 m, 13.V.1960, H. Chen leg., 1 ♀ ( MNHN-B 16939).

MUSORSTOM 1, stn 1, 14°28’N, 120°42’E, 36-37 m, 18.III.1976, 10 ♂♂, 1 pre-adult ♀, 14 ♀♀ ( MNHN-B 10142).

Indonesia. Tanimbar Is, KARUBAR, stn CP 63, 08°00’S, 132°58’E, 215- 214 m, 1.XI.1991, 1 ♂ ( MNHN-B 29307).

DISTRIBUTION. — Persian Gulf ( Stephensen 1946, as C. purpurea ) and western Pacific Ocean from Taiwan to Indonesia. Depth: 25- 215 m.

REMARKS

Carcinoplax sinica has often been confused with C. purpurea . Differences were outlined by Guinot (1989: 287). The most marked difference is in the morphology of the second anterolateral tooth: hook-like and more salient in C. sinica ( Guinot 1989: fig. 12) than in C. purpurea ( Guinot 1989: fig. 11). There are also differences in the colour patterns, a reddish carapace in C. sinica (see Hsueh & Huang 2002: fig. 8D) that is unfortunately readily lost in preservation and a purple-red band along the medial axis of the carapace in C. purpurea (see Hsueh & Huang 2002: fig. 8C).

Photographs of specimens identified as C. purpurea by Serène & Lohavanijaya (1973: pl. 14, figs B, C, pl. 15, fig. B) shows that the material belongs to C. sinica . It can also be confirmed that part of the MUSORSTOM 1 material originally identified as C. purpurea by Serène & Vadon (1981) actually belonged to C. sinica as previously reported by Guinot (1989: 287).