Goniopugettia sagamiensis (Gordon, 1930)

Fig. 1 A–B

Pugettia brevirostris Parisi, 1915: 287–289, text-fig. 2, pl. 7 fig.1 [not Hyastenus brevirostris Doflein, 1906 = Rochina brevirostris (Doflein, 1904)].

Pugettia sagamiensis Gordon, 1930: 520 (list), 521 (type locality: Sagami Bay, Japan).

Pugettia sagamiensis – Gordon 1931: 557, 558, text-figs 35, 36c. — Sakai 1935: 87, 88, fig. 36; 1938: 253 (key), 253–254, pl. 25 fig. 3; 1965: 73, 74, pl. 33 fig. 2; 1976: 194 (key), 195, pl. 69 fig. 2. — Takeda 1982: 120, un-numbered text-fig. — Miyake 1983: 36, pl. 12 fig. 4. — Baba et al. 1986: 225, 313, pl. 169. — Ikeda 1998: 34, pl. 36.

Rochinia sagamiensis – Griffin & Tranter 1986 a: 176 (key), 187, fig. 62g–h. — Takeda 1997: 242, pl. 1 fig. E; 2001: 242, 251 (table), 255 (table), 259 (table). — Takeda & Kubodera 1998: 217–218. — Huang & Hsueh 1998: 224, fig. 1E–H.

Goniopugettia sagamiensis – Sakai 1986: 1, frontispiece fig. 4, pl. 1 figs 1–6. — Miyake 1991: 36, pl. 12 fig. 4. — Ng et al. 2001: 13. — Ng et al. 2008: 103 (list). — Wang et al. 2013: 513 (table).

Material examined

SOUTH CHINA SEA: 1 ♀ (41.8 × 30.1 mm) (ZRC 2016.0064), Dongsha, stn CP 4120, 22°12.98′ N, 120°24.69′ E to 22°13.11′ N, 120°22.53′ E, 327–372 m, coll. DONGSHA 2014 Expedition, 29 Apr. 2014.

Remarks

The species was first briefly described as Pugettia sagamiensis by Gordon (1930), followed by a more detailed description by Gordon (1931). This species was transferred to Goniopugettia by Sakai (1986). In the same year, however, Griffin & Tranter published a large revision on all the Indo-West Pacific Majoidea and placed this species in Rochinia (Griffin & Tranter 1986a: 187) . Ng et al. (2001) was the next to recognise Goniopugettia and used this name for the Taiwanese material.

Distribution

This species is known from Japan (Sakai 1965; 1986) and Taiwan (Ng et al. 2001; Wang et al. 2013). The specimen caught during the DONGSHA cruise within the South China Sea is the most southern known record.