Paromola macrochira Sakai 1961
Creators: name: Ng, Peter K. L.
name: Forges, Bertrand Richer de
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Homolidae
Paromola
Paromola macrochira

description: <i>Paromola macrochira</i> Sakai, 1961 (Fig. 24C, D) <i>Paromola macrochira</i> Sakai, 1961: 146, pl. 4, fig. 5. – Griffin, 1965: 87 (part); Serène &amp; Lohavanijaya, 1973: 26, 27, fig. 28 (list). – Sakai, 1976: 40, pl. 10. – Jenkins, 1977: 4 (list). – Matsuzawa, 1977: pl. 85, figs. 1, 2. – Miyake, 1983: 13, 197, pl. 5 fig. 2. – Guinot &amp; Richer de Forges, 1995: 367: figs. 21c–e, 27 f. – Ng &amp; Huang, 1997: 262, fig. 1B, C. – Ikeda, 1998: 68–69, pl. 10. – Miyake, 1998: 13, 197, pl. 5 fig. 2. – Muraoka, 1998: 15; Tan et al., 2000: 186. – Ng et al., 2001: 6. – Chen &amp; Sun, 2002: 140, fig. 58. – Marumura &amp; Kosaka, 2003: 21. – Richer de Forges &amp; Ng, 2007: 36. – Ahyong et al., 2009: 111, figs. 78–81. – Ng et al., 2008: 41. – Ng, 2015: 1447, figs. 1–5. <i>Paromola alcocki faughni</i> Serène &amp; Lohavanijaya, 1973: 27, fig. 32–38, pl. 3C. – Kensley, 1980: 25. <i>Moloha</i> ? <i>alcocki faughni</i> – Guinot &amp; Richer de Forges, 1995: 376, 383. <b>Material examined.</b> 1 female (soft, 26.5 × 22.7 mm) (ZRC 2016.0558), station DW 4095, 21°13.20′N 121°33.75′E – 21°12.41′N 121°32.62′E, 517–573 m, Taiwan, South China Sea, trawl, coll. TAIWAN 2013 Cruise, 19 May 2013. – 1 juvenile (11.1 × 8.7 mm) (ZRC 2016.0559), station CP 4117, continental slope off Tungsha Island, 20°00.88′N 114°08.80′E – 20°01.87′N 114°09.36′E, Taiwan, South China Sea, 333–421 m, coll. trawl, NANHAI 2014 Cruise, 11 January 2014. – 2 females (16.5 × 11.4 mm, 16.5 × 11.5 mm) (ZRC 2016.0560), station CP 4155, northeast of Macclesfield Bank, 16°13.60′N 115°01.61′E – 16°11.21′N 114°59.77′E, Taiwan, South China Sea, 510–526 m, trawl, coll. ZHONGSHA 2015 Cruise, 28 July 2015. – 1 soft male specimen (damaged) (ZRC 2016.0561), station CP 4156, northeast of Macclesfield Bank, 16°09.80′N 114°58.73′E – 16°12.19′N 115°00.53′E, Taiwan, South China Sea, 503–511 m, trawl, coll. ZHONGSHA 2015 Cruise, 28 July 2015. – 1 female (16.3 × 11.1 mm) (ZRC 2016.0562), station CP 4137, continental slope off Tungsha Island, 19°53.06′N 114°21.67′E – 19°53.03′N 114°24.74′E, Taiwan, South China Sea, 524–536 m, trawl, coll. ZHONGSHA 2015 Cruise, 23 July 2015. <b>Colour.</b> Adult <i>Paramola macrochira</i> are orangish-brown overall (Ahyong et al., 2009: figs. 78, 79). The smaller specimens obtained from the South China Sea are pale orangish-pink overall, with the ambulatory legs mostly white (Fig. 24C, D). <b>Remarks.</b> On the juveniles of this large species, the rostral horns appear to be relatively longer than in the adults. Ng (2015) demonstrated that the <i>Paromola alcocki faughni</i> from Serène &amp; Lohavanijaya (1973) is a juvenile of <i>P. macrochira</i>.
description: Published as part of <i>Ng, Peter K. L. &amp; Forges, Bertrand Richer de, 2017, On a collection of Homolidae from the South China Sea, with descriptions of two new species of Homologenus A. Milne-Edwards, in Henderson, 1888, and the identities of Homologenus malayensis Ihle, 1912, and Lamoha superciliosa (Wood-Mason, in Wood-Mason &amp; Alcock, 1891), pp. 243-268 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65</i> on page 250, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5356049
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