Atergatopsis germaini A. Milne-Edwards, 1865

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Atergatopsis germaini A. Milne-Edwards, 1865 # ( Figs. 26 , 39C )

Atergatopsis germaini — present record.

Taxonomy: Buitendijk (1960), Sakai (1976).

Type: Syntypes in MNHN and probably also RMNH ( Buitendijk 1960; Guinot 1964).

Type locality: Côn SƠn Island (as Poulo-Condore), Vietnam.

Distribution: West Pacific: New Guinea, the Philippines, Vietnam, East Asia to Japan ( Buitendijk 1960; Sakai 1976; S-k Lee et al. 2008).

Habitat: Shallow subtidal; rocky reefs near coral communities.

Remarks: This species had been reported to be toxic, containing human-lethal levels of paralytic shellfish poison by Tsai et al. (1996). This species is a new record for the fauna of Hong Kong.

Lophozozymus pictor (Fabricius, 1798) #

Lophozozymus epheliticus — Shen 1940a: 224.

Taxonomy: Sakai (1976), Ng and Holthuis (1993), Ng and Chia (1997).

Type: Lectotype ò ZMUC 109-1 (now NHMD) (designated by Ng and Chia 1997).

Type locality: Unknown.

Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean to South China Sea and East Asia: Western Australia, Southeast and East Asia to Japan ( Ng and Chia 1997).

Habitat: Intertidal and subtidal; under rocks or in crevices of coral reefs, to depths of 30 m ( Dai and Yang 1991).

Remarks: The local record of L. epheliticus by Shen (1940a), which cited Miers (1880) and L. octodentatus in Alcock (1898), should be referred to as L. pictor (cf. Ng and Chia 1997). Like several members of this subfamily, the present species had been reported to be toxic, with tetrodotoxin and paralytic shellfish poison in its tissues (Chia et al. 1993; Tsai et al. 1995).

Figures

Fig. 26. Atergatopsis germaini A. Milne-Edwards, 1865 (male, 64.4 × 43.8 mm, off Kau Sai Chau): A, carapace; B, frontal region and maxilliped 3, ventral view; C, left chela; D, left P5; E, thoracic sternites and pleon; F, left G1, mesial view; G, tip of left G1, mesial view.

Fig. 39. A–D, F, Overall habitus. A, Demania reynaudii (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) (male, 72.6 × 52.5 mm, off Clear Water Bay); B, inset, Leptodius davaoensis Ward, 1941 (male, 19.4 × 12.3 mm, Starfish Bay); C, Atergatopsis germaini A. Milne-Edwards, 1865 (male, 64.4 × 43.8 mm, off Kau Sai Chau). D, Percnon sinense Chen, 1977 (male, 28.1 × 30.2 mm, off High Island); E, F Clistocoeloma nobile B.Y. Lee, N.K. Ng & Ng, 2023 (male, 16.5 × 12.0 mm, To Gwa Peng). F preserved coloration.