Pinnotheres villosulus Guérin­Méneville, 1831

Ahyong, Shane T. & Brown, Diane E., 2003, Description of Durckheimia lochi n. sp., with an annotated checklist of Australian Pinnotheridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), Zootaxa 254, pp. 1-20 : 15

Pinnotheres villosulus Guérin­Méneville, 1831

Pinnotheres villosulus Guérin­Méneville, 1831: 7 , pl. 4: fig. 6 [type locality: Timor, Indonesia]. — Miers, 1886: 277, pl. 22: fig. 2. — Tesch, 1918: 251, 252, 255, 256. — Rathbun, 1924: 13, 14, pl. 1: fig. 8, fig. 4. — Schmitt et al., 1973: 91. — Davie, 2001: 434.

Pinnotheres villosus . — Jones & Morgan, 2002: 202 (colour figure) (misspelling).

Material. QLD: AM P64671, 1 female (cw 11.6 mm, cl 10.9 mm), Lindeman Id., reef, Dec 1928, M. Ward; AM P45250, 1 female (cw 8.8 mm, cl 8.2 mm), Port Curtis and North West Island, 23°36’S, 151°33’E, M. Ward & W. Boardman, Jul 1929 – Jan 1930; AM G4226, 11 females (cw 10.4–13.2 mm, cl 10.2–12.9 mm), Gulf of Carpentaria, C. Hedley. WA: AM P10228, 2 females (cw 11.5–12.8 mm, cl 10.7–12.4 mm), Broome, 17°58’S, 122°14’E, H. Clark, Jun 1932; AM P64554, 24 females (cw 10.0– 15.4 mm, cl 10.2–15.1 mm), Roebuck Bay, Broome, 18°06’S, 122°20’E, 16.5 m, from pearl oysters, 15 Aug 1929.

Australian hosts. Bivalve molluscs. Pearl oysters (probably Pinctada sp., Pteriidae ) (this study).

Remarks. The female from Lindeman Island is not referable to Pinnotheres sp. reported by Ward (1967). Ward's (1967) Pinnotheres sp. was from a Pinna sp. in shallow water off a beach, rather than reef as in the present Lindeman Island specimen. Another Lindeman Island specimen collected by Ward could be the basis of his 1967 report (see above account of A. similis ).

Distribution. Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia ( Schmitt et al. 1973). The Australian range includes Torres Strait, Cape Jaubert, Western Australia, and now Broome, Western Australia, northeastern Queensland and the Gulf of Carpentaria.