Deep-sea spider crabs of the genus Oxypleurodon Miers, 1885 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea, Epialtidae), from the Nan Hai 2014 Cruise in the South China Sea, with a description of a new species

Crustaceana ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 88 (12-14) ◽  
pp. 1255-1263
Author(s):  
B. Y. Lee ◽  
L. Corbari ◽  
B. Richer de Forges
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
New Records ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sea Spider ◽  
A New Species

During a recent expedition in the South China Sea, three species of the deep-sea epialtid genusOxypleurodonMiers, 1885 were collected. Two species,O. stimpsoniMiers, 1886, andO. auritum(Rathbun, 1916), are new records for the area. The third species, one of the largest knownOxypleurodonspecies, is described here as new. It is most similar toO. luzonicum(Rathbun, 1916) andO. sanctaeclausiRicher de Forges & Ng, 2009, in possessing a rounded cardiac plate, but can be separated by the structures of the branchial and pseudorostral spines.

scholarly journals On the clawed lobsters of the genus Nephropsis Wood-Mason, 1872 recently collected from deep-sea cruises off Taiwan and the South China Sea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Nephropidae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 833 ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Su-Ching Chang ◽  
Tin-Yam Chan
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
New Records ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
China Sea

Recent deep-sea cruises using Taiwanese research vessels off Taiwan and in the South China Sea yielded seven species of the clawed lobster genus Nephropsis Wood-Mason, 1872. Four species are new records for Taiwan (Nephropsisacanthura Macpherson, 1990, N.holthuisi Macpherson, 1993, N.serrata Macpherson, 1993, and N.suhmi Bate, 1888) and three species are new records of Dongsha (under the jurisdiction of Taiwan) in the South China Sea (N.ensirostris Alcock, 1901, N.stewarti Wood-Mason, 1872, and N.suhmi). Altogether, five and four species of this genus are now known from Taiwan and Dongsha, respectively. The diagnostic characters and coloration are illustrated for most, if not all, of these species.

A new species of the deep-sea shrimp genus Spongicoloides (Decapoda: Spongicolidae) from the South China Sea

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5005 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-290
Author(s):  
YU ZHAO ◽  
TING XU ◽  
WEIDI YANG ◽  
JIAN-WEN QIU
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Western Pacific

Spongicoloides zhoui sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Spongicolidae), a species of deep-sea hexactinellid sponge-associated shrimp, is described based on specimens collected from the Zhenbei Seamount in the South China Sea. The new species is morphologically most similar to the Western Pacific congeneric species Spongicoloides iheyaensis Saito, Tsuchida & Yamamoto, 2006 in that the ischium of the third pereiopod is unarmed and the fixed finger of the third pereiopod is armed with small teeth on the distoventral margin. However, S. zhoui sp. nov. can be distinguished from S. iheyaensis in that its female antennal basicerite has three large spines on the distolateral margin. Molecular analyses based on nuclear histone H3, and mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI), 12S ribosomal RNA (rRNA), and 16S rRNA gene fragments confirmed the placement of S. zhoui sp. nov. within a clade of Spongicoloides/Spongiocaris species, and their sequence divergences were large enough to justify the recognition of this new species.

scholarly journals Deep-sea spider crabs of the families Epialtidae MacLeay, 1838 and Inachidae MacLeay, 1838, from the South China Sea, with descriptions of two new species (Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bee Yan Lee ◽  
Bertrand Richer de Forges ◽  
Peter K.L. Ng
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
New Records ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Deep Waters ◽  
Sea Spider ◽  
Two New Species

Recent expeditions (NANHAI 2014, DONGSHA 2014 and ZHONGSHA 2015) conducted in deep waters of the South China Sea obtained interesting material of various spider crabs (Majoidea) including several new records for the area, and two new species of epialtids of the genera Oxypleurodon Miers, 1885 and Stegopleurodon Richer de Forges & Ng, 2009. Two poorly known species, previously only known from their types, Rochinia strangeri Serène & Lohavanijaya, 1973 and R. kagoshimensis (Rathbun, 1932) comb. nov., are redescribed, refigured, and their taxonomy discussed.

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