Pleisticanthoides piccardorum Ng & Richer de Forges, 2012

Pleisticanthoides piccardorum Ng & Richer de Forges, 2012: 75, figs. 1D, 7, 8B, 9C, 10B, 11 E–G.

Material examined. 1 male (soft) (MNHN-IU-2015-1196), stn CP 4420, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 2°24’S 150°36’E, 425–442 m, coll. N.O. Alis, KAVIENG 2014 expedition, 28 August 2014.

Remarks. The species has previously been reported from Papua New Guinea by Ng & Richer de Forges (2012) and is also known from Vanuatu. The present specimen is poorly preserved with most of the structure soft and most of the chelipeds and ambulatory legs detached and/or broken. The diagnostic G1, however, is intact.