Glyphocrangon smithii Wood-Mason & Alcock 1891

• Main Authors: Komai, Tomoyuki, Chan, Tin-Yam
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Glyphocrangonidae; Glyphocrangon; Glyphocrangon smithii; Fridtjof Nansen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6015725; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/96367D76FF82FFE0F6D82806FE3FFA8A

Glyphocrangon smithii Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891 Figs 3–8 Glyphocrangon smithii wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891 b: 357 (type locality: Bay of Bengal, near Andaman Islands, 561 fathoms).—wood-Mason 1894: pl. 7, fig. 3, 3a.— Alcock 1901: 129.— Chace 1984: 6 (key, in part).— Komai 2004: 583. Not Glyphocrangon smithii : Calman 1939: 216 [= Glyphocrangon boletifera Komai 2004 (material from the Gulf of Aden); Glyphocrangon amblytes Komai, 2004 (material from the Maldives)]. Not Glyphocrangon smithii : Monod 1973: 124, fig. 34. (= G. armata Komai, 2004). Not Glyphocrangon smithii : Hayashi 1986: 149, 279, fig. 99.— Miya 1995: 194 (in part).— Takeda 1997: 250, pl. 3, fig. G.— Sakaji 2001: 211, pl. 2, fig. E. (= G. perplexa Komai, 2004). Material examined. Andaman Sea, “Dr. Fridtjof Nansen”, stn 135, 12°36.63’N, 96°62.18’E, 523 m, 23 May 2015, beam trawl, 1 ovigerous female (cl 31.5 mm), NTOU M02041. Description. Body (Fig. 3) moderately robust; integument firm, entirely glabrous. Rostrum (Figs 4 A, B; 7A, B) descending at base and upturned distally, gradually tapering in dorsal view, 0.6 times as long as carapace, armed with 2 pairs of spines on dorsolateral ridges; anterior pair located at 0.7 of rostral length, proximal pair just above orbital margin; dorsal margin of proximal spine evenly convex; dorsal surface faintly rugose in distal half (middorsal ridge hardly discernible in proximal 0.3 of rostrum); dorsolateral ridges between 2 lateral spines strongly raised, bluntly carinate, those anterior to lateral spines weakly elevated, sharply carinate; ventral surface sulcate medially in proximal two-thirds, distal one-third nearly flat, ventrolateral margins bluntly carinate. Carapace (Fig. 4 A, B) 1.3 times as long as width between tips of anterior spines of posterior third carinae; surfaces of carinae and tubercles etched with reticulate pattern of minute pits; major carinae moderately high; anterior and cervical grooves deep. Anterior first (submedian) carina composed of 6 tubercles, these tubercles forwardly ...