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Parapleisticantha Yokoya 1933

Description

Genus Parapleisticantha Yokoya, 1933

Type species. Parapleisticantha japonica Yokoya, 1933, by monotypy.

Remarks. Yokoya (1933) established the genus for one new species, P. japonica Yokoya, 1933, from Japan; but it has generally been regarded as a junior synonym of Pleistacantha Miers, 1879 by most workers (e.g., see Takeda & Miyake 1969; Sakai 1976; Guinot & Richer de Forges 1982). Sakai (1986: 238; 1940: 55) suggested that the taxon was a valid subgenus, Pleistacantha (Parapleisticantha) but Ahyong et al. (2005: 2) preferred to treat it as a synonym of Pleistacantha s. str. until the genera could be reappraised. Richer de Forges et al. (2013: 65) re-examined Japanese material and resurrected Parapleisticantha as a valid genus with two species, P. japonica Yokoya, 1933, and P. ludivinae Richer de Forges, Ng & Ahyong, 2013, from the Philippines.

Notes

Published as part of Ng, Peter K. L., Forges, Bertrand Richer De & Lee, Bee Yan, 2023, New and rare deep-sea majoid crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 5318 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5318.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8158079

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Oregoniidae
Genus
Parapleisticantha
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Yokoya
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Parapleisticantha Yokoya, 1933 sec. Ng, Forges & Lee, 2023

References

  • Yokoya, Y. (1933) On the distribution of Decapod Crustaceans inhabiting the continental shelf around Japan, chiefly based upon the materials collected by the S. S. Soyo-Maru, during the year 1923 - 1930. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Imperial University of Tokyo, 12 (1), 1 - 226.
  • Miers, E. J. (1879) On a collection of Crustacea made by Capt. H. C. St. John, R. N., in the Corean and Japanese Seas. Part I. Podophthalmia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1879, 18 - 61, pls. 1 - 3. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1879. tb 02624. x
  • Takeda, M. & Miyake, S. (1969) Crabs from the East China Sea. III Brachygnatha Oxyrhyncha. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 15 (4), 469 - 525. https: // doi. org / 10.5109 / 22797
  • Sakai, T. (1976) Crabs of Japan and the Adjacent Seas. Vols. 1 - 3. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, pp. xxix + 773 pp. (English Txt), 461 pp. (Japanese Txt), 16 pp., 251 pls. (Pls. Vol.)
  • Guinot, D. & Richer de Forges, B. (1982) Nouvelles recoltes des genres Cyrtomaia Miers et Pleistacantha Miers (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Series 4, 3, Section A (4), 1087 - 1125. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / p. 304626
  • Sakai, T. (1986) Rare crabs and their genus in Japan. Research on Crustacea, 15, 1 - 4. https: // doi. org / 10.18353 / rcustacea. 15.0 _ 1
  • Ahyong, S. T., Chen, H. & Ng, P. K. L. (2005) Pleistacantha stilipes, a new species of spider crab from the South China Sea (Decapoda: Brachyura: Majidae). Zootaxa, 822 (1), 1 - 10. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 822.1.1
  • Richer de Forges, B., Ng, P. K. L. & Ahyong, S. T. (2013) Parapleisticantha Yokoya, 1933, a valid genus of deep-sea inachid spider crab from Japan and the Philippines (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea), with the description of a new species. Zootaxa, 3635 (1), 15 - 26. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3635.1.2