Paramunida scabra
Creators: name: Cabezas, Patricia
name: Chan, Tin-Yam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Galatheidae
Paramunida
Paramunida scabra

description: Paramunida scabra (Henderson, 1885)
Munida scabra. — Henderson, 1885: 409 (type locality: off the Kei Islands, 236 m). — Henderson, 1888: 134, pl. 15, figs 4, 4a, 4b (off Little Kei Islands, 256 m). — Yokoya, 1933: 63 (S of Inuboe-zaki, Sagami Bay, E of Miyazaki, W of Muroto-zaki, Bungo Strait, vicinity of Goto I., E of Chejudo, S of Tsushima, 106–393 m). — Yanagita, 1943: 30, figs 9, 10 (off Miya, Aichi Prefecture, 360 m). — Miyake & Baba, 1967: 242, fig. 13 (East China Sea, 100–158 m). — Baba, 1969: 49 (East China Sea, 310 m). — Kim, 1973: 178 (no new material). — Miyake, 1982: 149, pl. 50, fig. 2 (E of Koshiki-jima, Kagoshima, 300–350 m). — Baba in Baba et al., 1986: 175, 292, fig. 125 (Okinawa Trough and Tosa Bay, 150–550 m).
Paramunida scabra. — Baba, 1988: 180 (off NE Borneo, Balabac Strait off N Borneo, Sulu Archipelago, off N Mindanao, off Pacific coast of S Luzon, South China Sea off SW Luzon, off Hong Kong and off SW Formosa, 70–1630 m). — Baba, 1990: fig. 15a (reexamination of type material). — Macpherson, 1993: 462, fig. 8 (in part, Philippines and Indonesia, 143–1075 m). — Baba, 1994: 19 (off Central Queensland, 497–503 m). — Komai, 2000: 360 (list). — Davie, 2002: 66 (no new material). — Baba, 2005: 199, 303 (key, synonymies, Japan and Kei Islands, 180–325 m). — Baba et al., 2008: 174 (list of occurrences). — Baba et al., 2009: 281, figs. 257–258 (Taiwan, 520–640 m). — Cabezas, Macpherson & Machordom, 2010: 42–43, figs. 15B, 18D (Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, Kei Islands, 206–225 m).
Not Paramunida scabra. — Wu et al., 1998: 145, figs 41, 42G (Taiwan) — Macpherson, 1993: 462 (in part) (= P. tricarinata (Alcock, 1894)).
Dubious identity:
Munida scabra var. Longipes. — Borradaile, 1900: 422 (type locality: Talili Bay, New Britain Talili Bay, New Britain; 3 syntypes not located).
Paramunida scabra Tirmizi & Javed, 1993: 131, figs 58, 59 (off Tanzania and off Mozambique, 100–347 m).
Material examined. PANGLAO 2005, Philippines, 17 males (CL 5.5–11.3 mm), 7 females (CL 6.4–8.3 mm), 1 ovigerous female (CL 11.3 mm) (NTOU A01377), station CP2343, 9°27.4'N, 123°49,4'E, 273–302 m, 23 May 2005. — 1 male (CL 6.3 mm), 1 female (CL 11.2 mm) (NTOU A01378), station CA2345, 9°28.3'N, 123°54.1'E, 276 m, 23 May 2005. — 4 males (CL 6.4–12.2 mm), 1 female (CL 10.3 mm) (NTOU A01379), station DW2346, 9°28.4'N, 123°54.5'E, 261–280 m, 24 May 2005. — 1 ovigerous female (CL 10.0 mm) (NTOU A01380), station CP2348, 9°29.6'N, 123°52.5'E, 164–196 m, 24 May 2005. — 19 males (CL 4.8–14.0 mm), 19 females (CL 5.3–11.6 mm), 2 ovigerous females (CL 11.4–12.7 mm) (NTOU A01381), station CP2380, 8°41.3'N, 123°17.8'E, 163–271 m, 28 May 2005. — 1 male (CL 6.7 mm) (NTOU A01382), station CP2381, 8°43.3'N, 123°19.0'E, 275–280 m, 28 May 2005. — 1 female (CL 6.5 mm) (NTOU A01383), station CP2406, 9°40.6'N, 123°46.8'E, 379–389 m, 1 June 2005.
Colour. Ground colour of carapace and abdomen pale pink. Epigastric and cardiac regions reddish. Ground colour of P1–4 whitish, with red bands and some small red spots; P1 fingers white, distal portion reddish (from Baba et al., 2009).
Distribution. Hong Kong, East and South China Sea (Dongsha), Indonesia (Kei Islands), Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia (off Central Queensland), between 70 and 1630 m. The records along the Eastern Africa (off Tanzania and off Mozambique) should be revised in order to determine its taxonomic status.
description: Published as part of Cabezas, Patricia & Chan, Tin-Yam, 2014, Deep-sea squat lobsters of the genus Paramunida Baba, 1988 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Munididae) from the Philippines Panglao 2004, Panglao 2005 and Aurora 2007 expeditions, with the description of three new species, pp. 302-316 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62 on pages 311-312, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4502233