Galathea labidolepta Stimpson 1858

• 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 labidolepta; Indian; White Island
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5136039; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5136039

Galathea labidolepta Stimpson, 1858 (Fig. 53) Galathea labidolepta Stimpson, 1858: 89 (Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 22 m).— Stimpson, 1907: 231, Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 22 m).— Doflein & Balss, 1913: 140, fig. 6 (South Africa near East London, 80–102 m).— Lenz & Strunk, 1914: 287, fig. 1.—Baba et al., 2008: 71 (compilation). Galathea intermedia.— Barnard, 1946: 378 (South African waters).— Barnard, 1950: 483, figs 91, a–e (Simon's Bay, Agulhas Bank, Algoa Bay, and East London, 37–77 m).— Tirmizi & Javed, 1993: 69, fig. 30 (western Indian Ocean off South Africa, 68–70 m) (not Galathea intermedia Liljeborg, 1851). Material examined. South Africa. Port Elizabeth, White Island, 18–20 m, 18 February 1999: 1 M 4.2 mm (UF 6885). South Africa, Agulhas Cape, R/S Valdivia, Stn 96, 35° 2 'S, 19 ° 58 'E, 80 m, 27 October 1898: 1 ov. F 5.9 mm (SMF 4570). Description. Carapace: as long as broad; transverse ridges with dense short setae, without long setae; cervical groove distinct, laterally bifurcated. Gastric region with 8 transverse ridges: 2 epigastric ridges, anterior ridge medially interrupted, with 2 median spines, posterior ridge scale-like; 2 protogastric ridges, anterior one uninterrupted, without parahepatic spines, posterior ridge scale-like; 1 mesogastric ridge uninterrupted, not extending laterally to anteriormost of branchial marginal spines; 3 metagastric ridges, anterior ridge uninterrupted and extending laterally to anterior branchial ridges. Hepatic region unarmed or with 1 small hepatic spine in one side near first anterolateral spine (only in one specimen). Anterior branchial region with distinct ridges. Midtransverse ridge uninterrupted, preceded by shallow cervical groove, followed by 6 ridges, 4 uninterrupted. Lateral margins well convex medially, with 7 spines: 1 spine in front of and 6 spines behind anterior cervical groove; first anterolateral, well-developed, slightly posterior to level of lateral limit of orbit, without spine ventral to between first and anteriormost spine of ...