Macrophthalmus

Rahayu, Dwi Listyo & Nugroho, Dharma Arif, 2012, The Indonesian species of Macrophthalmus Desmarest, 1823, with the description of a new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae), Zootaxa 3158, pp. 20-36 : 34-35

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.211286
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3505590
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Macrophthalmus View in CoL (Ven i tu s) latreillei (Desmarest, 1877)

( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8. A, B E, F)

Gonoplax latreillei Desmarest, 1922: 99 , pl. 9, fig. 1, 4.

Macrophthalmus (Venitus) latreille View in CoL — Barnes 1967: 232, pl. 3 c, fig. 11; 1971: 31.

Material examined. 2 males (13.82 x 18.00 mm – 28.00 x 36.00 mm), 1 female (21.50 x 25.10 mm) ( MZB Cru 3280), Kamora, Papua, 25.06.2008; 2 males (20.79 x 28.84 mm, 26.8 x 38.5 mm), 1 female (24.50 x 34.40 mm), 1 ovig. (21.20 x 28.10 mm), Port Site, Timika, Papua, 0 8.07.2008 (RCLA-C.B.0277); 1 male, 14.18 x 17.20 mm, Ajkwa, Papua, 02.04.2008; 1 male (8.50 x 10.36 mm), 4 females (8.18 x 9.45 mm – 12.91 x 12.91 mm), Ajkwa I., Papua, 22.06.2008 ( ZRC 2011.1007).

Remarks. This species is characterized by three prominent and one small anterolateral teeth, the heavily granular surface of the carapace and pereopods, deep carapace furrows particularly circumgastric, and thick setae that covers the inner surface of the fingers and upper distal part of the palm. Some male specimens in the collection have small chelipeds that resemble those of the females, and their carapace surface is only sparsely granular. Habitat. Muddy substrate along river banks in mangrove forests.

Geographical distribution. Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific from South Africa to the Philippines, Japan and Australia ( Barnes 1970). In Indonesia it was recorded from Halmahera, Maluku ( Tesch 1915) and Pulau Kaledupa, Sulawesi (Barnes 2010), and now Papua.

References

Barnes, R. S. K. (1967) The macrophthalminae of Australasia with a review of the evolution and morphological diversity of the type genus Macrophthalmus (Crustacea: Brachyura). Transaction of the Zoological Society of London, 31, 195 - 262

Barnes, R. S. K. (1970) The species of Macrophthalmus (Crustacea: Brachyura) in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology, 20 (7), 206 - 250

Tesch, J. J. (1915) The catometopous genus Macrophthalmus as represented in the collection of the Leiden Museum. Zoologische Mededeelingen, 1 (3 - 4), 149 - 204.

Figures

FIGURE 8. A, B, Macrophthalmus (Paramareotis) erato De Man, 1888, male (7.97 x 11.27 mm) (RCLA-C. B. 0274); C, D, Macrophthalmus (Paramareotis) quadratus A. Milne-Edwards, 1873, male (6.36 x 8.01 mm) (RCLA-C. B. 0276); E, F, Macrophthalmus (Venitus) latreille Desmarest, 1877, male (20.79 x 28.84 mm) (RCLA-C. B. 0277).