Bathypaguropsis kuroshioensis

• Main Author: Mclaughlin, Patsy A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2003
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Paguridae; Bathypaguropsis; Bathypaguropsis kuroshioensis; Southern Ocean; Pacific; New Zealand
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4890616; https://zenodo.org/record/4890616

Bathypaguropsis kuroshioensis (Miyake, 1978) Pagurus kuroshioensis Miyake, 1978: 115, fig. 48; 1982: 197 (list), 225 (key); 1991: 198 (list), 225 (key); 1999: 198 (list), 225 (key). — Baba 1986: 203, fig. 150. Bathypaguropsis rahayuae McLaughlin, 1997: 539, figs 291-h, 42c, d. Bathypaguropsis kuroshioensis – de Saint Laurent & McLaughlin 2000: 117. — Komai & Lemaitre 2002: 43, figs 4-7. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Southwest Pacific. Combe Bank, MUSORSTOM 7, stn CP 552, 12°16’S, 177°28’W, 786-800 m, 18. V.1992, 1 3.7 mm (MNHN Pg. 6341). DISTRIBUTION. — Sagami and Tosa bays, Japan, Banda Sea, Indonesia, Combe Bank, southwestern Pacific; 120-786, possibly 800 m. REMARKS The female specimen from MUSORSTOM 7 is slightly smaller than the majority of specimens reported by Komai & Lemaitre (2002), and slightly larger than the holotype of B. rahayuae as describ- ed by McLaughlin (1997). The armature of the right cheliped of the present specimen agrees more closely with the Indonesian specimen than with those described from Japan. In particular, the tubercles on the surfaces of the chela of the right cheliped are much weaker and do not show the pits ascribed to the Japanese specimens. Although Komai & Lemaitre (2002) did not discuss armature variation among their 30 specimens, the variation seen in the specimens from the southwestern Pacific and Indonesia follows patterns seen in B. yaldwyni from New Zealand. McLaughlin (1994) and de Saint Laurent & McLaughlin (2000) have pointed out that B. yaldwyni exhibits considerable variability, particularly in chela morphology. In that species cheliped armature increases in strength with increase animal size regardless of sex. Neither McLaughlin (1994) nor de Saint Laurent & McLaughlin (2000) directly addressed variations in telson armature; although in their descriptions of B. marionensis and B. cruentus , variation in armature is apparent. In the MUSORSTOM specimen, the terminal margins of the telson are unarmed, whereas they were each described as being armed with a row of small spines by Komai & Lemaitre (2002) for Japanese specimens or five very small spinules by McLaughlin (1997) for the holotype of B. rahayuae . Colour in life Shield, antennal peduncles, chelipeds and ambulatory legs red-orange; antennular peduncles with basal and penultimate segments red, ultimate segment fading to colorless distally (Komai & Lemaitre 2002). : Published as part of Mclaughlin, Patsy A., 2003, Reassignment and redescription of " Eupagurus " microps Balss, 1911 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Paguridae), with notes on Bathypaguropsis kuroshioensis (Miyake, 1978), pp. 635-642 in Zoosystema 25 (4) on page 640, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4689535 : {"references": ["MIYAKE S. 1978. - The Crustacean Anomura of Sagami Bay. Biological Laboratory, Imperial Household, Tokyo: 1 - 200 (English), 1 - 161 (Japanese), figs 1 - 72, pls 1 - 4.", "BABA K. 1986. - in BABA K., HAYASHI K. - I. & TORIYAMA M. (eds), Decapod Crustaceans from Continental Shelf and Slope around Japan. The Intensive Research of Unexploited Fishery Resources on Continental Slopes. Japan Fisheries Resource Conservation Association, Tokyo, 336 p., 176 col. figs.", "MCLAUGHLIN P. A. 1997. - Crustacea Decapoda: hermit crabs of the family Paguridae from the KARUBAR cruise in Indonesia, in CROSNIER A. & BOUCHET P. (eds), Resultats des campagnes MUSORSTOM, vol. 16. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle 172: 433 - 572, figs 1 - 44.", "SAINT LAURENT M. DE & MCLAUGHLIN P. A. 2000. - Superfamily Paguroidea, family Paguridae, in FOREST J., SAINT LAURENT M. DE, MCLAUGHLIN P. A. & LEMAITRE R. (eds), The marine fauna of New Zealand: Paguridea (Decapoda: Anomura) exclusive of the Lithodidae. National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Biodiversity Memoir 114: 104 - 209, figs 33 - 66, pls 3 - 6.", "KOMAI T. & LEMAITRE R. 2002. - A new species of Bathypaguropsis McLaughlin, 1994 from Japan, and redescription of B. kuroshioensis (Miyake, 1978) (Decapoda, Anomura, Paguridae). Crustaceana 75 (3 - 4): 423 - 441, figs 1 - 7.", "MCLAUGHLIN P. A. 1994. - A new genus and two new species of deep-water hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Southern Ocean. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 107 (3): 469 - 481, figs 1 - 5."]}