Phoxokalliapseudes gobinae Bamber 1998

Phoxokalliapseudes gobinae (Bamber, 1998)

Kalliapseudes (Kalliapseudes) gobinae Bamber, 1998: 181 –184, figs 8,9.

Phoxokalliapseudes gobinae.— Drumm & Heard, 2011: 39 –43, figs 22–24.

Non- Kalliapseudes (Kalliapseudes) gobinae.— Bamber & Sheader, 2005 = Kalliapseudes bamberi Drumm & Heard, 2011

Material examined: 633, 10Ƥ, 1 subadult, Brunei Darussalam, 0 4°40.5ʹN 114°26.5ʹE, sand, 2–8 m depth, March 2009. 333, 9Ƥ, Sungai Besar, Sungai Brunei Estuary and Bay, Brunei Darussalam, 4º56'N, 115º1'E, mud flat and algae covering the pneumatophores of Avicennia marina, coll T Chatterjee and David J Marshall, 10 March 2011.

Remarks. This species was originally described from 26 specimens collected off the Brunei coast at some 69 m depth (Bamber 1998), where it was the second commonest tanaidacean in the benthic community. Bamber and Sheader (2005) attributed further material from 23 to 35 m depth off the islands of Gave and Labuan, in Sabah, to this species. Subsequently, Drumm and Heard (2011) re-examined the Sabah material and described it as a distinct species, Kalliapseudes bamberi. These authors also reassigned the present species to their new genus Phoxokalliapseudes, on the basis of its cuspidate labrum and distal plumose setae on the pleotelson, inter alia. This species also shows variation in the morphology of the mature male chela (see remarks under Aponychos hyperaesthesia, above).

P. gobinae remains at present endemic to Brunei waters.