Mendoza Jose C E, Ng Peter K L
Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 2 Conservatory Drive, 117377 Singapore.
Zookeys. 2017 Jan 23(647):23-35. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.647.11455. eCollection 2017.
, a new genus and species of coral rubble-dwelling pseudozioid crab is described from the island of Guam in the western Pacific Ocean. The unusual morphological features of its carapace, thoracic sternum, eyes, antennules, pereopods and gonopods place it in the family Christmaplacidae Naruse & Ng, 2014. A suite of characters on the cephalothorax, pleon and appendages distinguishes from the previously sole representative of the family, Naruse & Ng, 2014, described from Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean. This represents the first record of Christmaplacidae in the Pacific Ocean. With the discovery of a second genus, a revised diagnosis for Christmaplacidae is provided.
在西太平洋的关岛发现了一种新的珊瑚礁栖息伪螯蟹属和新物种。其头胸甲、胸腹板、眼睛、触角、步足和交接器的异常形态特征使其归入2014年Naruse和Ng建立的圣诞蟹科。头胸部、腹部和附肢上的一系列特征使其有别于该科之前唯一的代表物种,即2014年在印度洋东部圣诞岛描述的物种。这是圣诞蟹科在太平洋的首次记录。随着第二个属的发现,提供了圣诞蟹科的修订诊断。