Decapoda - Brachyura - Pilumnidae - Parapleurophrycoides

Parapleurophrycoides roseus Nobili, 1906

2 Illustration(s)

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 0-5 m

Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
Parapleurophrycoides roseus Nobili, 1906a: 264; 1907: 402, pl. 2, fig. 5 (Marutea; gen. nov. and sp. nov. described from a very small specimen, 1.3x1.7mm). - Poupin, 1996a: 75, 77, 78 (Checklist). - Remark: for this species, Forest & Guinot (1962: 41) indicate: "...nous les considérons comme des juvéniles difficilement identifiables."
February 2024 - P. Ng has rexamined this specimen, type MNHN-IU-2024-2 in Paris, with this comment: This strange beast called Parapleurophrycoides roseus is a pilumnid. The original figure is just awful and wrongly drawn. Its a pilumnid. Looks sort of like a Viaderiana (with only 2 anterolateral teeth, excluding the external orbital tooth) but impossible to speculate with this being a juvenile'

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

This species in Worms Database