| Abstract |
family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 sensu lato has resulted in the revision of
the subfamily Goneplacinae, which combines the subfamilies Goneplacinae
MacLeay, 1838 and Carcinoplacinae H. Milne Edwards, 1852. Most of the 66
species of Goneplacinae sensu stricto that are listed herein inhabit relatively deep
water and are infrequently collected. The subfamily Goneplacinae sensu stricto
now consists of 17 genera of which 10 are being described as new: Carcinoplax
H. Milne Edwards, 1852, with 18 species of which four are new; Entricoplax
n. gen., monotypic; Exopheticus n. gen., with two species; Goneplacoides n. gen.,
monotypic; Goneplax Leach, 1814, with four species; Hadroplax n. gen.,
monotypic; Menoplax n. gen., monotypic; Microgoneplax n. gen., with five
species of which four are new; Neogoneplax n. gen., with three species of which
two are new; Neommatocarcinus Takeda & Miyake, 1969, monotypic; Notonyx
A. Milne-Edwards, 1873, with three species; Ommatocarcinus White, 1852,
with four species; Paragoneplax n. gen., monotypic; Psopheticus Wood-Mason,
1892, with four species; Pycnoplax n. gen., with five species of which one is
new; Singhaplax Serène & Soh, 1976, with seven species of which four are new;
and Thyraplax n. gen., with five species of which three are new. All goneplacine
genera are exclusive to the Indo-West Pacific region (plus contiguous temperate
areas) except Goneplax, which is so far known mostly from the Atlantic and
Mediterranean regions. Four nominal species described by other authors were
found to be junior subjective synonyms for other species: Carcinoplax verdensis
Rathbun, 1914 and C. polita Guinot, 1989 synonymous of C. specularis Rathbun,
1914; Goneplax megalops Komatsu & Takeda, 2003 of Goneplacoides marivenae
(Komatsu & Takeda, 2003) n. comb.; and Psopheticus insolitus Guinot, 1990
of P. stridulans Wood-Mason, 1892. |
