Phylladiorhynchus pusillus

Martin, Joel W. & Haney, Todd A., 2005, Decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: a review through 2005, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (4), pp. 445-522 : 481

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PHYLLADIORHYNCHUS PUSILLUS View in CoL ( HENDERSON, 1885)

Type locality: South Pacific Ocean, off New South Wales, Challenger Expedition sta. 163; 220 m (120 fathoms) .

Known range: Eastern Indian Ocean, Japan, New Caledonia, New Zealand and Australia, intertidal to 310 m ( Poore, 2004); possibly eastern Pacific ( Baba, 1991; see below).

Occurrence at vents or seeps: Kermadec Ridge ( Clark & O’Shea, 2001).

Material: See Baba (1991: 486) for material and additional references to western Pacific localities.

Remarks: The genus Phylladiorhynchus currently includes four species, all from the Indian Ocean and/or Indo-West Pacific, and possibly one eastern Pacific species, although the latter might be synonymous with P. pusillus . If so, it would extend the range of P. pusillus significantly ( Baba, 1991). Phylladiorhynchus pusillus , originally described by Henderson (1885: 407) as Galathea pusilla , was transferred to Phylladiorhynchus by Baba (1969; see also Baba, 1991), and the species has been the source of some taxonomic confusion (discussed in Baba, 1991). The only record associated with vents or seeps is the listing by Clark & O’Shea (2001) from the Kermadec Ridge system.

References

Baba K. 1969. Four new genera with their representatives and six new species of the Galatheidae in the collection of the Zoological Laboratory, Kyushu Univesity, with redefinition of the genus Galathea. OHMU, Occasional Papers of the Zoological Laboratory, Facility of Agriculture Kyushu University 2: 1 - 32.

Baba K. 1991. Crustacea Decapoda: Alainius gen. nov., Leiogalathea Baba, 1969, and Phylladiorhynchus Baba, 1969 (Galatheidae) from New Caledonia. In: Crosnier A, ed. Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, volume 9. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 152: 479 - 491.

Clark MR, O'Shea S. 2001. Hydrothermal vent and seamount fauna from the southern Kermadec Ridge, New Zealand. InterRidge News 10 (2): 14 - 17.

Henderson JR. 1885. Diagnoses of new species of Galatheidae collected during the ' Challenger' expedition. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series V 16: 407 - 421.

Poore GCB. 2004. Marine decapod Crustacea of southern Australia: A guide to identification. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.