Automate dolichognatha de Man 1888

Automate dolichognatha De Man, 1888

Automate dolichognatha De Man, 1888:529, pl. 22: fig. 5.—Chace, 1988:64.

Automate gardineri.—Chace, 1972:74, fig. 23.

MATERIAL.—Manning 1971 Collection: Sta ASC-15, English Bay: 2 females [1.2–2.2].

Smithsonian 1976 Collection: Sta 3A–76, English Bay: 1 ovig. female [3.6].—Sta 5A–76, Shelly Beach: 1 female [1.9].

Other Collections: Olson (1970), McArthur Point, sandy bottom tide pool: 1 ovig. female [5.8].

SIZE.—Carapace lengths of females, 1.2–5.8 mm; of ovigerous females,3.6–5.8 mm.

HABITAT.—All five specimens were taken from tide pools.

DISTRIBUTION.—Pantropical, except for eastern Atlantic (see above); central Atlantic from Ascension; western Atlantic from North Carolina, Yucatan, and Antilles; eastern Pacific from Mexico to the Galapagos (Wicksten, 1981, synonymized A. haightae Boone, 1931, from the eastern Pacific with this species); Indo-West Pacific from Samoa to the Red Sea; intertidal to shallow sublittoral.

Automate dolichognatha De Man, 1888

Automate dolichognatha De Man, 1888a:529, pl. 22: fig 5 [type locality: “Insel Noordwachter,” presumably Djaga Utara in the southwestern Java Sea near Djakarta, Indonesia].—D.M. and A.H. Banner, 1973:299, fig. 1.

A[usomate] Gardineri Coutière, 1902:337 [type locality: 4 Maldive atolls, Gilbert Islands, Masqat, and Djibouti].

Automate kingsleyi Hay, 1917:72 [type locality: Beaufort, North Carolina].

Automate haighsae Boone, 1931:184, fig. 22 [type locality: north shore of Isla Taboguilla, Bahia de Panama].

Automate johnsoni Chace, 1955:13, fig. 7 [type locality: Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands].

DIAGNOSIS.—Rostrum acute, subrectangular or rounded, not nearly reaching anteriorly to level of extreme anterior margin of carapace; stylocerite not reaching level of distal margin of 1st antennular segment; antennal scale not overreaching 2nd antennular segment, with lateral margin nearly straight, distolateral tooth slightly overreaching distal margin of blade; basal segment of antennal peduncle (basicerite) armed with small distal tooth; major chela with margins smooth, not rugose; 3rd pereopod with dactyl simple, not subspatulate, with about 5 spinules on flexor margin of propodus; maximum carapace length to base of rostrum about 7 mm.

RANGE.—Pantropical, except for eastern Atlantic; usually intertidal or shallow subtidal.

*Batella Holthuis, 1955

Cheirothrix Bate, 1888:532 [type species, by monotypy: Cheirothrix parvimanus Bate, 1888:533; gender: feminine. Invalid junior homonym of Cheirothrix Pictet and Humbert, 1866:51 (Pisces)].

Batella Holthuis, 1955:92 [substitute name for Cheirothrix Bate, 1888; type species: Cheirothrix parvimanus Bate, 1888; gender: feminine].

DIAGNOSIS.—Body not unusually compressed from side to side; rostrum distinct, acute in dorsal and lateral aspects; carapace without high carina throughout length of dorsal midline; abdomen without triangular flap articulated at posteroventral angle of 6th somite; telson not terminating posteriorly in triangular tooth; eyes largely concealed from dorsal aspect, visible in anterior aspect; mandible with molar process but without palp; 3rd maxilliped not unusually broadened to form partial operculum over other mouthparts; 1st pereopods similar, not necessarily equal, carried extended with movable finger dorsal or lateral, not ventral, major chela without molar-like tooth on movable finger; 2nd chela with fingers about as long as palm, carpus with 5 articles; pereopods without strap-like epipods; appendix masculina not overreaching exopod of 2nd pleopod.

RANGE.—Northern East China Sea, Philippines, and Torres Strait; 15–296 meters.

Shallow-waters (0-100 m)