Mathildellidae Karasawa & Kato, 2003, 1862

Arnes-Urgelles, Camila, Buglass, Salome, Ahyong, Shane T., Salinas-de-Leon, Pelayo, Wicksten, Mary K. & Marsh, Leigh, 2020, Arthropoda; Crustacea; Decapoda of deep-sea volcanic habitats of the Galapagos Marine Reserve, Tropical Eastern Pacific, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 54482-54482 : 54482

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Mathildellidae Karasawa & Kato, 2003
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Mathildellidae Karasawa & Kato, 2003 View in CoL View at ENA

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: CDF Volunteer; behavior: on seafloor; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Image only; associatedMedia: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1976/31778722608_435173cc58_o.png; occurrenceID: H1435_082740_Mathildellidae_gen_indet.; Taxon: scientificNameID: urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:439044; scientificName: Mathildellidae; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Malacostraca; order: Decapoda; family: Mathildellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Karasawa & Kato, 2003; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location: locationID: MRGID8403; waterBody: Pacific Ocean; country: Ecuador; stateProvince: Galapagos; locality: North ; verbatimLocality: East of Wolf; minimumDepthInMeters: 640; maximumDepthInMeters: 640; decimalLatitude: 1.2261; decimalLongitude: -91.1076; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 15; Identification: identifiedBy: Shane Ahyong; dateIdentified: 2017; identificationRemarks: ID from imagery only; identificationQualifier: Mathildellidae gen. indet.; Event: eventID: NA064; samplingProtocol: Remotely Operated Vehicles; eventDate: 06-27-15; eventTime: 8:27:40 AM; habitat: Seamount; Record Level: language: en; bibliographicCitation: WoRMS (2019). Mathildellidae Karasawa & Kato, 2003. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=439044 on 2019-08-23; institutionCode: CDF; collectionCode: Arthropoda; datasetName: Video transect framegrabs; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation GoogleMaps Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: CDF Volunteer; behavior: on seafloor; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: Image only; associatedMedia: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1962/44926123184_df7f396d15_o.png; occurrenceID: H1435_085954_Mathildellidae_gen_indet.; Taxon: scientificNameID: urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:439044; scientificName: Mathildellidae; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Malacostraca; order: Decapoda; family: Mathildellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Karasawa & Kato, 2003; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location: locationID: MRGID8403; waterBody: Pacific Ocean; country: Ecuador; stateProvince: Galapagos; locality: North ; verbatimLocality: East of Wolf; minimumDepthInMeters: 512; maximumDepthInMeters: 512; decimalLatitude: 1.2271; decimalLongitude: -91.1099; geodeticDatum: WGS84; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 15; Identification: identifiedBy: Shane Ahyong; dateIdentified: 2017; identificationRemarks: ID from imagery only; identificationQualifier: Mathildellidae gen. indet.; Event: eventID: NA064; samplingProtocol: Remotely Operated Vehicles; eventDate: 06-27-15; eventTime: 8:59:54 AM; habitat: Seamount; Record Level: language: en; bibliographicCitation: WoRMS (2019). Mathildellidae Karasawa & Kato, 2003. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=439044 on 2019-08-23; institutionCode: CDF; collectionCode: Arthropoda; datasetName: Video transect framegrabs; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation GoogleMaps

Notes

Appears to be a goneplacoid crab. The overall habitus, aspects of the shape and colouration of the claws and shape of the carapace all fit well with Mathildellidae , based on the author's (S.Ahyong) extensive examination of many species of this group. Fig. 24