Pyrhila pisum Galil 2009, n. comb.
Creators: name: Galil, Bella S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Leucosiidae
Pyrhila
Pyrhila pisum

description: Pyrhila pisum (De Haan, 1841) n. comb.
(Figs 12D; 20)
Philyra pisum De Haan, 1841: 131, pl. 33 fig. 7. — Bell 1855a: 365; 1855b: 300; 1855c: 15. — Herklots 1861: 27. — Targione-Tozzetti 1877: 197, pl. 12.2. — Walker 1887: 111. — Ives 1891: 216. — Ortmann 1892: 582, pl. 26, fig. 16. — Doflein 1902: 654. — Parisi 1914: 294. — Balss 1922: 129. — Gee 1925: 161. — Kellogg 1928: 353. — T. Sakai 1934: 285; 1935: 63, pl. 12, fig. 2; 1937: 163, pl. 15, fig. 8; 1965: 49, pl. 19, fig. 6. — Shen 1932: 22, text fig. 13, 14, 16a, pl. 1.5-8; 1940: 78. — Uchida 1949: 717, fig. 2074. — Lin 1949: 15. — Miyake 1961a:15; 1961b:171. — Miyake et al. 1962:127. — Park 1964: 16. — Shen & Dai 1964: 32. — Serène 1968: 46. — Kim 1973: 308, pl. 14, fig. 69, text fig. 101. — Yamaguchi et al. 1976: 34. — Takeda 1982: 101, fig. 296; 1987: 10; 1989: 140. — Hill 1982: 199, pl. 3a. — Dai et al. 1986: 80, pl. 10.1, fig. 41.2. — Dai & Yang 1991: 88, pl. 10.1, fig. 41.2. — Yamaguchi 1993: 587. — Fransen et al. 1997: 89. — Ng et al. 2001: 9. — Chen & Sun 2002: 387, text fig. 173, pl. 15.8.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Japan. coll. H. Bürger, 7 ♂♂ cl 13.7-17.6 mm, cl 3 ♀♀ 14.4-16.7 mm (RMNH D797) (the ♂ cl 17.6 mm was designated as the lectotype by Yamaguchi & Baba [1993: 322] and the remaining specimens are considered to be paralectotypes).
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Japan. 1877, 1 ♂, 1 ovig. ♀ (NMW 19043). — 1876, 2 ♂♂, 1 ovig. ♀ (NMW 19044). — Ariake Bay, Kyushu, 8.IX.1968, coll. T. Sakai & L. B. Holthuis, 2♂♂ cl 17.2, 20.1 mm (RMNH D25905). — Marsushima, Amakusa Archipelago, Kyushu, 3.VIII.1975, coll. T. Yamaguchi, 3 ♂♂ cl 15.8-18.8 mm, 2 ovig. ♀♀ cl 17.5, 18.0 mm (RMNH D41933). — Yokohama, 24. V.1917, coll. P. Buitendijk, 1♂ cl 22.2 mm (RMNH D50038). — Ex. Leiden, type series, 3 spec. damaged (MNHN 17040). — Ex. Leiden, type series, 1877, 2♂♂ cl 17.2, 17.4 mm, 1 ovig. ♀ cl 17.5 mm, 3 juvs (NMW 19043). — Tokyo Bay, 1881, coll. L. Döderlein, 1 ♂ cl 20.3 mm, 1 ♀ cl 20.3 mm (NHM). — 1883-1898, id. E. L. Bouvier, 6 ♂♂ cl 11.8-19.1 mm, 1 ovig. ♀ cl 13.8 mm (MNHN 16982).— Miyagi Prefecture, IX.1912, id. M. J. Rathbun, 1 ♂ cl 16.3 mm, 1 ♀ cl 18.0 mm (USNM 54494). — Sagami Bay, pres. T. Sakai, 2 ♂♂ cl 18.8, 23.2 mm (NHM 1961.6.5.34-35). — Tsushima, 4 ♂♂ cl 15.2-17.2 mm, 1 ovig. ♀ cl 15.4 mm (NHM 1955.3.31.17).— Atami Province, 1♂ cl 22.6 mm (USNM 18865). — Higo, 7 ♂♂ cl 14.8-22.4 mm, 6 ovig. ♀♀ cl 17.7-20.6 mm (USNM 45862). — 1 ♂ cl 18.9 mm, 1 ovig. ♀ cl 17.5 mm (NSMT-Cr 3620). — 1 ♂ cl 23.6 mm (NSMT-Cr 3834). — Tokyo Bay, 7.IV.1992, coll. M. Takeda, 1♂ cl 20.0 mm (ZRC 1995.548). — Ariake Sea, IV.1973, coll.Y.Koyama, 2 ♂♂ cl 15.9, 20.9 mm (NSMT-Cr 4845). — Kumanoura, Tanegashima, 10. VI.1975, 12♂♂ cl 10.4-15.3 mm, 4 ♀♀ cl 13.1-16.8 mm (NSMT-Cr 5200). — Kensai, 27. V.1999, 18 ♂♂ cl 14.1-20.3 mm, 8 ovig. ♀♀ cl 17.3-19.9 mm (NSMT-Cr 6058). — 4 ♂♂ cl 16.8- 19.8 mm, 2 ovig. ♀♀ cl 16.9-18.1 mm (NSMT-Cr 6165). — 2 ♂♂ cl 17.4, 18.2 mm, 1 ovig. ♀ cl 16.9 mm (NHM 1904.6.22.9-11).
China. Peitaiho, Peichihli Bay, 4. VI.1929, coll. C. J. Shen, 1 ♂ cl 23.2 mm, 1 ♀ cl 23.6 mm (USNM 99349).
Taiwan. Kagi, Tainan, VIII.1918, 2 ♂♂ cl 19.5, 20.2 mm, 2 ovig. ♀♀ cl 19.6- 20.8 mm (USNM 55381). — Canton?, coll. M. Dabry, preserved dry, 2 ♂♂ cl 15.2, 13.1 mm (MNHN D 202).
South Korea. Kang-Wha, intertidal, 6.IX.1989, coll. C. Swennen, 4 ♂♂ cl 21.1-25.7 mm, 2 ovig. ♀♀ cl 20.8, 21.7 mm (RMNH D39231). — Asan Bay, intertidal, 9.IX.1989, coll. C. Swennen, 2 ♂♂ cl 23.7, 23.8 mm, 1 ♀ cl 18.5 mm (RMNH D39232).
DISTRIBUTION. — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan.
DESCRIPTION
Dorsal surface of carapace minutely granulate, bearing perliform granules on branchial, gastric regions, and several aggregates of granules medially on mesogastric region. Hepatic region slightly tumescent. Branchio-cardiac grooves shallow. Front medially grooved. Anterior margin of epistome medially notched; anterior margin of efferent channel concave. Upper, lower margins of subhepatic facet granulate, granules on lower margin larger. Lateral margin of carapace posteriorly to subhepatic facet closely beaded, granules smaller posteriorly. Posterior margin straight in male, arcuate in female. Epimeral surface smooth; epimeral margin minutely beaded. Margins of external maxillipeds minutely granulate, exopod distally granulate, punctate. Sternum minutely granulate. Anterior margin of abdominal sulcus prominently granulate. Fused male abdominal segments 2-6 bearing granulate basal knobs laterally. Margins of fused abdominal segments in female granulate, prominently granulate areas basally. Cheliped merus 0.6 as long as carapace in male; its dorsal surface minutely granulate, anterior and posterior surfaces bearing perliform granules, diminishing in size posteriorly. Carpus with strip of granules on inner and upper margins. Upper and lower surfaces of propodus granulate, arcuate strip of granules medially on inner margin. Fingers fluted, granulate, granulation most prominent proximally on outer margins; inner margins denticulate. Granulation in female specimens less prominent. Pereiopodal propodi dorsally and ventrally carinate, first pereiopodal propodus with two minutely granulate carinae. Male first pleopod sinuous; apical process filiform, arcuate, bent distad.
Colour
“[G]rigio-plumbeo di sopra, grigio-violaceo chiaro nelle parti inferiori e nelle zampe posteriori. Estremità delle dita della mano, tarsi anco più chiari.” (Targione-Tozzetti 1877: 198). “Surface of carapace dark olive gray to dark grayish olive, ventral surface vinaceous buff to avellaneous.Punctiform depressions on carapace gray or colourless.” (Shen 1932: 25).
REMARKS
Ng et al. (2001: 9) cited Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese authors whose publications I was unable to obtain.
description: Published as part of Galil, Bella S., 2009, An examination of the genus Philyra Leach, 1817 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Leucosiidae) with descriptions of seven new genera and six new species, pp. 279-320 in Zoosystema 31 (2) on pages 308-309, DOI: 10.5252/z2009n2a4, http://zenodo.org/record/5399261