Rediscovery of Orientotlos iishibai Sakai, 1980 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Leucosiidae) in Taiwan

By

Ng, Peter
Chan, Tin-Yam

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1053

Pages

185--195

Subjects

East Asia , Leucosioidea , new record , redescription , rubble crab , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1053.67326

 

Abstract

The leucosiid crabOrientotlos iishibaiSakai, 1980 was described from one female collected off western Japan and had never been reported since. The species is now recorded from southwestern Taiwan for the first time, and is redescribed and figured at length. Although Sakai argued thatOrientotlosSakai, 1980, is closely related toOreophorusRüppell, 1830 andAtlantotlosDoflein, 1904, the genus is actually morphologically most similar toMerocryptusA. Milne-Edwards, 1873. The two genera, however, still differ markedly in a number of key carapace and cheliped characters.