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Decapoda - Astacidea - Nephropidae - Thaumastocheles

Thaumastocheles japonicus Calman, 1913

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World Distribution
(Chan & de Saint Laurent, 1999, JCB) - IWP from Japan, Taiwan, South China Sea, the Phlippines, Indonesia, New Caledonia and Madagascar (Mayotte-Glorieuses area). 360-1110 m.

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)

Vertical range : Deep (more than 100 m) - Min-Max observed: 430-110 m

Mayotte data
Thaumastocheles japonicus - Chan & de Saint Laurent, 1999; 899, Madagascar, st. CH135, 13°01'S, 48°01'E, 1075-1110 m, trawl, 21 January 1975, 1 damaged right (large) chela MNHN As 175.

Remark Madagascar = Mayotte Region including Glorieuses Islands 'rectangle delimited by longitudes 43-48° E and latitudes 11-13°10’ S' in Poupin et al. 2013, ARB, ANOMURA (CRUSTACEA DECAPODA) FROM THE MAYOTTE REGION, WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN).

New Caledonia data
Bathus 2 Nouvelle Caledonie, CP743 — Chan TY & de Staint Laurent M, Crustacean Biology 19.
Halipro 1 Nouvelle Caledonie, CP868 — Chan TY & de Staint Laurent M, Crustacean Biology 19.
Nouvelle Caledonie, STATION — Chan TY & de Staint Laurent M, Crustacean Biology 19.

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

This species in Worms Database