Hamiger novaezealandiae Borradaile 1916

• Main Author: Bruce, A. J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Palaemonidae; Hamiger; Hamiger novaezealandiae; Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6267305; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6267305

Hamiger novaezealandiae (Borradaile, 1916) (Fig. 8 B) Periclimenes (Hamiger) novae­zealandiae Borradaile, 1916: 87, fig. 4. Periclimenaeus novae­zealeandiae — Holthuis, 1952: 130. Hamiger novaezealandiae — Bruce, 1986: 911 ­919, figs. 1­4. — Li, 2000: 55­56, fig. 58. Material examined. (1) 1 ♂, CL 8.6, NORFANZ stn: 133, Reinga Ridge, 33 ° 23.74 ’S 170 ° 13.03 ”E, orange roughy trawl, 456­490 m, 1 June 2003, coll. P.F.Davie and R.Webber, RMNH D 51027. (2) 3 ♂, CLs 7.5, 6.2, 6.2, NORFANZ stn. 136, South Norfolk Ridge, 33 ° 23.60 ’S 170 ° 12.38 ’E, beam trawl, 469­490 m, 1 June 2003, coll. P.F.Davie and R.Webber, NMNZ CR. 9992, CR. 9993, CR. 9994. (3) 1 ♂, 1 ovig. Ψ, CLs 6.0, 8.3, NORFANZ stn. 139, West Norfolk Ridge, 34 ° 24.50 ’S 168 ° 23.19 ’E, orange roughy trawl, 382­390 m, 2 June 2003, coll. P.F.Davie and R.Webber, QM W 27569 Host. Lophocalyx sp. nov., [Porifera: Hexactinellida], (det. K.Tabachnick, 24 July 2004). Colouration ( Fig. 8 B). (From colour photo). Body and antennae translucent whitish, eyestalks white, ovary pale yellowish, first and second pereiopods, ambulatory pereiopods and caudal fan coppery brown, fingers of minor second pereiopod transversely banded with white Remarks. The specimens agree precisely with the previous descriptions (Borradaile, 1916; Bruce, 1986). All specimens had both second pereiopods attached. The largest male had a rostral dentition of 9 / 2, with three teeth on the carapace. The female has a dentition of 6 / 2, but the distal rostrum appeared slightly damaged. One specimen, from stn. 136, has three ventral rostral teeth. The unusual major chela, missing in the female type specimen, is exactly as in the male. The type specimens were collected in 1910 from the H.M.S. Terra Nova¸ the vessel of the British Antarctic Exploring Expedition, lead by Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The Biologist­in­Charge was Denis G. Lillie, a marine biologist, who presumably collected the type material, but is not mentioned on the original specimen label. No further specimens have since been ...