Scyramathia hertwigi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Majoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Brachyura Sectio: Eubrachyura Subsectio: Heterotremata Superfamilia: Majoidea

Familia: Epialtidae
Genus: Scyramathia
Species: Scyramathia hertwigi

Name

Scyramathia hertwigi Doflein in Chun, 1900

Type locality: Off Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Lectotype: ZMB 13699, ♂ (33.7 × 27.0 mm), Atlantic, South Atlantic Ocean, Agul-hasstrom [= Agulhas current], coll. Deutsche Tiefsee Expedition, 2 November 1898.

Paralectotypes:

ZMB 13700, 3 ♂♂ (24.7 × 19.0 mm, 23.6 × 17.7 mm, 18.7 × 3.7 mm), 2 ♀♀ (28.3 × 22.6 mm, 26.4 × 20.2 mm), stn 103, Agulhasstrom [= Agulhas current], 500 m, coll. Deutsche Tiefsee Expedition, 2 November 1898;
SMF 23085, 8 ♂♂ (2 largest: 22.8 × 17.9 mm, 21.6 × 16.5 mm; 2 smallest: 16.2 × 12.3 mm, 16.0 × 11.9 mm), 2 ovigerous ♀♀ (25.9 × 20.5 mm, 24.3 × 19.2 mm), 8 ♀♀ (2 largest: 25.1 × 19.4 mm, 22.6 × 17.3 mm; 2 smallest: 20.1 × 15.2 mm, 14.3 × 10.3 mm), stn 103, Atlantic, South Atlantic, Agulhasstrom [= Agulhas current], 35°10'S, 23°2'E, 500 m, coll. FS ‘Valdivia”, 2 November 1898.

Synonymy

Rochinia hertwigi (Doflein, 1900) (superseded recombination)

References

Primary references

Chun, C. 1900. Aus den Tiefen des Weltmeeres. Schilderungen von der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. Mit 6 Chromolithographieen, 8 Heliogravüren, 32 als Tafeln gedruckten Vollbildern, 2 Karten und 390 Abbildungen im Text. Gustav Fischer, Jena, vi + 549 pp. [46 pls., 2 maps] Reference page.
Lee, B.Y., Richer de Forges, B., Ng, P.K.L. 2020. Revision of the deep-water spider crab genus, Scyramathia A. Milne-Edwards, 1880, with the description of a new species from the Mediterranean and notes on Rochinia A. Milne-Edwards, 1875, and Anamathia Smith, 1885 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Epialtidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution. 90(2): 133-146. DOI: 10.3897/zse.96.48041 Reference page. [page 51, Figs 10A–C, 14C, D, 15A–D; redescription]

Additional references

Doflein, F. 1904. Brachyura. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer 'Valdivia' 1898–1899. 6: xiv + 314 pp., 58 pls. BHL Reference page. [page 81, page 171]
Stebbing, T.R.R. 1902. South African Crustacea. Part II. Marine Investigations in South Africa. 2: 1-92; Pls. 5-16. BHL Reference page. [page 7]
Stebbing, T.R.R. 1910. General catalogue of South African Crustacea (Part V of S.A. Crustacea, for the Marine Investigations of South Africa). Annals of the South African Museum 8: 281-593. BHL Reference page. [page 289]

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