Lamoha murotoensis ( Sakai, 1979 )

Ng, Peter K. L. & Forges, Bertrand Richer de, 2017, On a collection of Homolidae from the South China Sea, with descriptions of two new species of Homologenus A. Milne-Edwards, in Henderson, 1888, and the identities of Homologenus malayensis Ihle, 1912, and Lamoha superciliosa (Wood-Mason, in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65, pp. 243-268 : 247

Lamoha murotoensis ( Sakai, 1979)

( Fig. 24B )

Hypsophrys murotoensis Sakai, 1979: 6 . – Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1981: 541. – Miyake, 1983: 197. – Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995: 449.

Hypsophrys longipes – Matsuzawa, 1977: pl. 87, figs. 1, 2. – Sakai, 1977: 54.

Lamoha murotoensis – Tan et al., 2000: 185. – Ng et al., 2001: 6. – Ng & Wang, 2002: 14. – Richer de Forges & Ng, 2008: 21. – Ahyong et al., 2009: 96.

Material examined. 1 ovigerous female (24.8 × 21.8 mm) ( ZRC 2009.0786 ), station P4, Balicasag, Panglao, Bohol, Visayas, Philippines, 9°31.1′N 123°41.5′E, coll. 31 May 2004. – 1 male (21.8 × 18.9 mm) ( ZRC 2001.2276 ) , NE Taiwan, Ilan Province , Nangfangao, Shu-Ao, coll. J.-F. Huang, 3 July 1992. – 1 male (20.4 × 18.4 mm) ( ZRC 2016.0200 ) , station CP 4153, north of Macclesfield Bank , 16°13.94′N 114°27.21′E – 16°14.24′N 114°29.55′E, Taiwan, South China Sea, 318 m, sponge substrate with sea pens and echinoderms, trawl, coll. ZHONGSHA 2015 Cruise, 27 July 2015 .

Colour. In life, the carapace, chelipeds and ambulatory legs are pink, with the stronger cristae and larger granules and spines on the carapace white ( Fig. 24B ) (see also Richer de Forges & Ng, 2007: fig. 8B; Ahyong et al., 2009: fig. 64).

Remarks. This distinctively coloured species is widely distributed from Japan to Madagascar ( Ahyong et al., 2009).

Figures

Fig. 24. Colour in life, A–H from South China Sea; I, J from Papua New Guinea and Bismarck Sea. A, Lamoha longirostris (Chen, 1986), female (24.9 × 20.3 mm) (ZRC 2016.0555); B, Lamoha murotoensis (Sakai, 1979), male (20.8 × 18.4 mm) (ZRC 2016.0200); C, Paromola macrochira Sakai, 1961, female (16.5 × 11.4 mm) (ZRC 2016.0560); D, Paromola macrochira Sakai, 1961, female (16.3 × 11.1 mm) (ZRC 2016.0562); E, Moloha majora (Kubo, 1936), male (54.8 × 47.8 mm) (ZRC 2016.0197); F, Homolochunia gadaletae Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995, ovigerous female (34.1 × 26.4 mm) (ZRC 2016.0198); G, Homolomania sibogae Ihle, 1912, male (15.4 × 11.3 mm) (ZRC 2016.0199); H, Paromolopsis boasi Wood-Mason, in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891, male (20.1 × 17.7 mm) (ZRC 2016.0565); I, Homologenus malayensis Ihle, 1912, ovigerous female (16.0 × 13.9 mm) (MNHN-IU-2015-80); J, Homologenus malayensis Ihle, 1912, ovigerous female (14.9 × 9.9 mm) (MNHN-IU-2014-8052).