Galathea whiteleggii Grant & McCulloch 1906

• Main Authors: Macpherson, Enrique, Robainas-Barcia, Aymee
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Galatheidae; Galathea; Galathea whiteleggii; McNeill; Moreton; Moreton Bay; Queensland; Low Island
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3512158; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3512158

Galathea whiteleggii Grant & McCulloch, 1906 (Fig. 114) Galathea whiteleggii Grant & McCulloch, 1906: 45, pl. 4, figs 2, 2a (off Wata Mooli (= Wattamolla) and Port Jackson, NSW, 99–108 m).— Davie, 2002: 62 (no record).— Baba, 2005: 245 (key, synonymies).—Baba et al., 2008: 81 (compilation). Not Galathea whiteleggii. — Dong & Li, 2010: 22, fig. 14 (South China Sea, 46–105 m) (= Galathea halia n. sp.). Dubious identifications: Galathea whiteleggii. — McNeill, 1968: 33 (Great Barrier Reef, off Low Island, 22 m).— Haig, 1973: 278, fig. 2g (off Dunwich, Moreton Bay Queensland, 7.3 m).— Poore, 2004: 232, fig. 63 h (compilation). Galathea whiteleggei.— Tirmizi, 1966: 186, fig. 9 (South Arabian Sea, 38 m).— Tirmizi & Javed, 1993: 57, fig. 25 (Bay of Bengal, 2417 m (depth remains questionable)). Material examined. Syntypes. New South Wales. 5.5–6.5 Km off Wattamolla, 34.17 °S, 151.18 °E, 99 m, 22 March 1898: 2 F 3.0– 3.1 mm (AM-G 2394) Description. Carapace: As long as broad; transverse ridges with dense short or moderately long fine setae, without long plumose setae; cervical groove distinct, laterally bifurcated. Gastric region with 8 transverse ridges; 2 epigastric ridges, anterior one medially convex anteriorly, with 2 median spines, posterior ridge scale-like and placed medially; 2 protogastric ridges, anterior one uninterrupted and not reaching carapace margins; 2 mesogastric ridges, anterior one uninterrupted and not extending laterally to anteriormost branchial spines, posterior ridge scale-like; 2 metagastric ridges, anterior one uninterrupted, continuing laterally to anteriorbranchial ridges, posterior ridge short. Anterior branchial region with distinct ridges. Mid-transverse ridge uninterrupted, preceded by shallow cervical groove, followed by 5 ridges, 4 of them uninterrupted. Lateral margins well convex medially, with 7 spines: 2 spines in front of, and 5 spines behind, anterior cervical groove; first anterolateral, second small, located at midlength between first spine and anterior cervical ...