Atergatis floridus ( Linnaeus, 1767 )

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Atergatis floridus ( Linnaeus, 1767) ( Fig. 20B )

Cancer floridus Linnaeus 1767: 1041 .

Atergatis floridus Dai et al. 1986: 261 , text-fig. 150A(1), pl. 35(8); Dai and Young 1991: 282, text-fig. 150A(1), pl. 26(8); Ng and Davie 2007: 169–172, figs. 2A–C, 3A, 4A, C (for the discussion of synonymy); Ng et al. 2008: 205, 209; Ng et al. 2017: 94 (for complete collection records from Taiwan).

Material examined: 1 ñ, NMNS 8772-66, 5.8 × 4.0, Jihuei, Taitung County, 13 December 2012.

Distribution: Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific (Dai and Young 1991).

Remarks: The morphology of the present specimen ( Fig. 20B ) aligns with the neotype of this species as designated by Ng and Davie (2007). Reports of this species in Taiwan have been documented over the past century ( Ng et al. 2017).

Figures

Fig. 20. Xanthias lamarckii (H. Milne-Edwards, 1834) (female, CW 6.3 mm; NMNS 8772-65), A; Atergatis floridus (Linnaeus, 1767) (female, CW 5.8 mm; NMNS 8772-66), B; Zozymodes pumilus (Hombron and Jacquinot, 1846 [in Hombron and Jacquinot, 1842–1854]), female (CW 9.1 mm; NMNS 8772-70); male (CW 5.6 mm; NMNS 8772-67), C, D: A–C, habitus, dorsal view; D, G1, right, distal area, external view. Scale bars: A = 2.0 mm; B = 1.0 mm; C = 3.0 mm; D = 0.1 mm.