Epigodromia areolata Balicasag
Creators: name: Mclay, Colin L.
name: Ng, Peter K. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Dromiidae
Epigodromia
Epigodromia areolata

description: <i>Epigodromia areolata</i> (Ihle, 1913) <i>Cryptodromia areolata</i> Ihle, 1913: 47, pl. 2, figs. 10–11.— Campbell 1971: 29.— Serène &amp; Lohavanijaya 1973: 18, figs. 5–7, pl. 2A.— Sakai 1976: 17, pl. 4: fig 2. <i>Cryptodromia ihlei</i> Balss, 1921: 177.— Balss 1922: 107, fig. 2. <i>Epigodromia areolata.</i> — McLay 1993: 217, fig. 19e–f.— McLay 1998: 347. <b>Material.</b> 2 males, 13.2 x 11.9 mm, 15.1 x 14.0 mm, 200–300 m, 28 Nov 2001, ZRC 2001.521; 2 males, 16.9 x 15.0 mm, 16.7 x 15.2 mm, 200–300 m, Jun 2002, ZRC 2002.632; 2 males, 15.3 x 13.4 mm, 17.3 x 15.6 mm, 1 ovigerous female, 14.0 x 12.5 mm, 200–300 m, 25–30 Jul 2003, ZRC 2003.671; 1 male, 13.5 x 11.7 mm, 200–300 m, Nov 2003, ZRC; 4 males, 15.2 x 13.3 mm, 16.7 x 14.6 mm, 16.7 x 14.7 mm, 18.4 x 15.9 mm, 1 female, 10.8 x 10.6 mm, 200–300 m, Mar 2004, ZRC; 5 males, 12.7 x 11.9 mm, 12.8 x 11.5 mm, 14.6 x 12.8 mm, 15.3 x 13.1 mm, 16.8 x 15.4 mm, 200–300 m, 3 Mar 2004, ZRC /NMCR/ MNHN; 1 male, 16.2 x 14.3 mm, 200–300 m, Apr 2004, ZRC; 1 male, 14.9 x 13.2 mm, 200–300 m, Nov 2003 – Apr 2004, ZRC; 1 male, 15.8 x 14.7 mm, 200–300 m, 29 May 2004, ZRC. All above locations in Balicasag Island, Panglao, Bohol, Visayas, Philippines; purchased from local shell fishermen, obtained by tangle nets. 1 female, 6.7 x 5.8 mm, station B39, Pontod Lagoon, Panglao, Bohol, Philippines, 9°0.033'N 123°0.042'E, substrate wall reef with small caves, soft coral and dead corals, coll. PANGLAO Expedition 2004, 3 Jul 2004, ZRC; 1 male, 14.2 x 13.1 mm, station P4, Balicasag Island, Panglao, Bohol, Philippines, 9°0.031'N 123°0.041'E, 60–80m, coll. PANGLAO Expedition 2004, 31 May 2004, ZRC. <b>Remarks</b>. <i>Epigodromia areolata</i> has a distinctive white, areolate carapace. Males have much larger chelipeds than females. This species is not known to carry pieces of camouflage. <b>Distribution</b>. <i>Epigodromia areolata</i> was originally described from Timor Island, Indonesia and is common in collections from Japan, South China Sea and New Caledonia, including the Loyalty and Chesterfield Islands. <i>Epigodromia areolata</i> is newly recorded for the Philippines.
description: Published as part of <i>Mclay, Colin L. &amp; Ng, Peter K. L., 2005, On a collection of Dromiidae and Dynomenidae from the Philippines, with description of a new species of Hirsutodynomene McLay, 1999 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1029 (1)</i> on pages 15-16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1029.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5050213
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