Pisidia gordoni
Creators
- 1. Fishery Survey of India, Beach Road, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
- 2. Fishery Survey of India, New Fishing Jetty, Sasson Dock, Colaba, Mumbai, India
Description
Pisidia gordoni (Johnson, 1970)
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Restricted synonymy: Porcellana (Pisidia) gordoni Johnson, 1970: 29–31, fig. 3. Pisidia gordoni.— Haig, 1973: 283.— Haig, 1978: 707.— Haig, 1981: 277.— Tirmizi et al., 1989: 34, fig. 21.— Morgan, 1990:
32.— Yang & Sun, 1990: 4, figs. 5, 6.— Haig, 1992: 318, fig.14.— Komai, 2000: 366.— Siddiqui & Kazmi, 2003: 88.— Patel et al. 2022: 37.
Material examined. FSI/ CRUST: 235, 1 male (CL 5.2 mm, CW 4.6 mm), 18°14.0’N, 84°10.1’E, 42–43 m, on desmosponges, coll. K. Silambarasan, 15 December 2020.
Distribution. Delagoa Bay, Mozambique, Madagascar, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Gulf of Iran, Hong Kong, Singapore, Java, Sri Lanka and tropical Australia (Haig 1981); India (Patel et al. 2022); recorded here for the first time reported from Bay of Bengal.
Commensalism. This species is usually observed in lower intertidal areas, exclusively inhabiting the cavity of Desmospongiae. In the present study, P. gordoni was collected from the Desmospongiae on the northeast coast of India at a depth of 42– 43 m. Similarly, Haig (1966c) also reported the species from around 50 m depth. Hiller et al. (2010) collected P. gordoni from under stones of the lower intertidal zone of St George Island, Goa. Similarly, Beleem et al. (2017) also reported P. hendersoni from cavities of yellow sponges from intertidal zone of Gulf of Kutch, Gujarat.
Remarks. This species is endemic to the Indian Ocean, and closely resembles Polyonyx splendidus (Sankoli, 1963), which also occurs in the cavities of sponges. Polyonyx splendidus differs from P. hendersoni by the meral lobe of the chelipeds, carpus and chelipeds being covered with plumose setae (Hiller et al. 2010).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CRUST
- Event date
- 2020-12-15
- Family
- Porcellanidae
- Genus
- Pisidia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Species
- gordoni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2020-12-15
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pisidia gordoni (Johnson, 1970) sec. Silambarasan, Kar, Prasad, Pattnayak, Das, Reddy & Ramalingam, 2023
References
- Johnson, D. S. (1970) The Galatheidea (Crustacea Decapoda) of Singapore and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the National Museum Singapore, 35, 1 - 44.
- Haig, J. (1973) Galatheidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) collected by the F. I. S. Endeavour. Records of the Australian Museum, 28, 269 - 289. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.28.1973.411
- Haig, J. (1978) Contribution toward a revision of the procellanid genus Porcellana (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 91 (3), 706 - 714.
- Haig, J. (1981) Porcellanid crabs from the Indo-West Pacific, Part II. Steenstrupia, 7 (12), 269 - 291.
- Tirmizi, N. M., Yaqoob, M. & Siddiqui, F. A. (1989) Marine fauna of Pakistan: 3 Porcellanid crabs (Crustacea, Anomura). Centre of Excellence, Marine Biology, University of Karachi, Pakistan, 6, 1 - 46.
- Morgan, G. J. (1990) A collection of Thalassinidea, Anomura and Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 265, 1 - 90.
- Yang, S. L. & Sun, Z. X. (1990) On the porcellanid crabs from the coast of Fujian Province, China. Bejing Natural History Museum, 45, 1 - 15.
- Haig, J. (1992) Hong Kong's porcellanid crabs. In: Morton, B. (ed.), The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China III. Proceedings of the Fourth International Marine Biological Workshop. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, pp. 303 - 327.
- Komai, T. (2000) A checklist of Thalassinidae and Anomura (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the South China Sea. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement 8, 343 - 376.
- Siddiqui, F. A. & Kazmi, Q. B. (2003) A checklist of marine anomurans (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Pakistan, northern Arabian Sea. Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 60 (1), 87 - 89. https: // doi. org / 10.24199 / j. mmv. 2003.60.12
- Patel, K., Padate, V., Osawa, M., Tiwari, S., Vachhrajani, K. & Trivedi, J. (2022) An annotated checklist of anomuran species (Crustacea: Decapoda) of India. Zootaxa, 5157 (1), 1 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5157.1.1
- Haig, J. (1966 c) The Porcellanidae (Crustacea Anomura) of the Iranian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. Videnskabelige Meddelelser Dansk Naturhistrisk Forening i Kjrbenhavn, 129, 49 - 65.
- Hiller, A., Harkantra, S. & Werding, B. (2010) Porcellanid crabs from Goa, Eastern Arabian Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Porcellanidae). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 107 (3), 201 - 212.
- Beleem, I., Poriya, P. & Gohil, B. (2017) Diversity and distribution of porcelain crabs of Gujarat, India. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 13 (1), 41 - 51. https: // doi. org / 10.22067 / ijab. v 13 i 1.58903
- Sankoli, K. N. (1963) On a new species of porcellanid crab (Decapoda, Anomura) from India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association India, 5 (2), 280 - 283.