Homola mieensis Sakai 1979
- 1. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, BPA 5, Nouméa cedex, New Caledonia. E-mail: richer @ noumea. ird. nc Tropical Marine Science Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore. E-mail: peterng @ nus. edu. sg
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Homola mieensis Sakai, 1979
(Fig. 1A, C)
Homola mieensis Sakai, 1979: 3, fig. 1c, 3b, pl. frontispiece, fig. 2. — Guinot & Richer de Forges 1981: 531, 534, fig. 2 D, pl. 2, fig. 3, 3a–b, pl. 8, fig. 2, 2a. — Guinot & Richer de Forges 1995: 335, fig. 9h, 11 a–b, 13c. – Ng et al. 2001: 6, fig. 1A. — Ng et al. 2008: 40.
Material examined. New Caledonia: CONCALIS cruise, stn. DW 2997, New Caledonia, 18°01.98’S 163°01.51’E, 430–438 m, 6 May 2008: 1 male (27.9 x 21.7 mm) (ZRC 2008.0978).
Remarks. Homola mieensis is a relatively large-size species but rarely recorded. Described from Sagami Bay in Japan (Sakai 1979), it has been found in Taiwan (Ng et al. 2001) and New Caledonia (Guinot & Richer de Forges 1981, 1995). The species has a very distinctive colour pattern (Ng et al. 2001: Fig. 1A). Compared to congeners, the subhepatic spine is proportionately longer and stronger than the anterolateral one, pointing anteriorly and diverging only slightly. There are no fissures at the extremity of the rostrum on the male specimen on hand; it appears to be single. Very few specimens of H. mieensis are known because its preferred habitat appears to be steep rocky slopes. The material from Loyalty Islands off New Caledonia (Guinot & Richer de Forges 1981, 1995) was caught by traps and the present specimen from the north of New Caledonia by dredging. The dredge is generally used when the bottom is too rough or too steep for trawling.
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZRC
- Event date
- 2008-05-06
- Family
- Homolidae
- Genus
- Homola
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- ZRC 2008.0978
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Sakai
- Species
- mieensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2008-05-06
- Taxonomic concept label
- Homola mieensis Sakai, 1979 sec. Forges & Ng, 2008
References
- Sakai, T. (1979) Description of three new species of crabs of the family Homolidae from Japan. Researches on Crustacea, 9, 1 - 8, 8 - 12, figs. 1 - 3, 1 frontispiece.
- Guinot, D. & B. Richer de Forges (1981) Homolidae, rares ou nouveaux de l'Indo-Pacifique (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, (4) 3 (A 2): 523 - 581.
- Guinot, D. & Richer de Forges, B. (1995) Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura: Revision de la famille des Homolidae de Haan, 1839. In: A. Crosnier (ed.), Resultats des campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 13. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, 163, 283 - 517.
- Ng, P. K. L., Wang, C. - H., Ho, P. - H. & Shih, H. - T. (2001) An annotated checklist of brachyuran crabs from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda). National Taiwan Museum Special Publication Series, Taipei, 11, 1 - 86, 8 colour plates.
- Ng, P. K. L., Guinot, D. & Davie, P. J. F. (2008) Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 17, 1 - 286.