Cyrtomaia murrayi Miers, 1885

Lee, Bee Yan, Forges, Bertrand Richer De & Ng, Peter K. L., 2017, Deep-sea spider crabs of the families Epialtidae MacLeay, 1838 and Inachidae MacLeay, 1838, from the South China Sea, with descriptions of two new species (Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea), European Journal of Taxonomy 358, pp. 1-37 : 28

Cyrtomaia murrayi Miers, 1885

Cyrtomaia murrayi Miers, 1885: 588 , fig. 196 (type locality: Kai Islands, Indonesia).

Cyrtomaia murrayi – Miers 1886: 15, 26 (list), 43 (list), pl. 3 fig. 1. — Serène & Lohavanijaya 1973: 44, 46 (key). — Sakai 1976: 178 (key), 180, pl. 62. — Guinot & Richer de Forges 1982: 7–8, 13, 15 (list), 16 (key), 17–18, 49 (list), 80 (table), 83, 85, figs 5A–B, 6A–B, 7A–B, 54; 1986: 86 (list), 115–116, pl. 6 fig. I. — Griffin & Tranter 1986a: 24 (key), 29, fig. 9h–i, pl. 2. — Ng & Huang 1997: 269–270, fig. 5F. — Ng et al. 2001: 13 (list). — Richer de Forges & Ng 2007: 56 (list), 57; 2009: 1207 (key). — Ng et al. 2008: 111 (list).

(For complete synonymy, see Guinot & Richer de Forges 1986: 115.)

Material examined

SOUTH CHINA SEA: 1 ♂ (15.7 × 28.7 mm) ( ZRC 2016.0086), north of Zhongsha, stn CP4149, 16°06.54′ N, 114°20.05′ E to 16°06.75′ N, 114°22.97′ E, 165– 162 m, coll. ZHONGSHA 2015 Expedition, 26 Jul. 2015; 1 ♀ (14.4 × 17.5 mm) ( ZRC 2016.0083), north of Zhongsha, stn CP4150, 162– 163 m, 16°06.83′ N, 114°24.04′ E to 16°06.60′ N, 114°21.45′ E, coll. ZHONGSHA 2015 Expedition, 26 Jul. 2015.

Distribution

This species seems common in relatively shallower waters, between 150 and 250 m in Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan ( Richer de Forges & Ng 2007) and Taiwan ( Ng & Huang 1997). The species has also been recorded from East Africa, western Australia and South China Sea ( Griffin & Tranter 1986a).