Myra hainanica Chen & Türkay, 2001

Myra hainanica Chen & Türkay, 2001 View in CoL

Myra affinis — Hill 1982: 198, pl. 2A [not M. affinis Bell, 1855 ].

Taxonomy: Chen and Türkay (2001), Chen and Sun (2002).

Type locality: Off west coast of Hainan, China.

Type: Holotype ò IOCAS K 218 View Materials B-40 and paratypes in IOASQ (now IOCAS) and SMF.

Distribution: South China (Hainan and Hong Kong).

Habitat: Subtidal; substrates of sandy mud or soft mud; depths 18 to 30 m ( Chen and Sun 2002).

Nursia plicata (Herbst, 1803) #

Nursia plicata View in CoL — Stimpson 1858c: 161; Stimpson 1907: 160; Alcock 1896: 180; Wong et al. 2021: 21, fig. 31a, b, pl. 6E.

Nursia hardwickii View in CoL — Gee 1926: 161 [list] [not N. hardwichii Leach, 1817 = Cancer lar Fabricius, 1793 ].

Nursia lar View in CoL — Shen 1940a: 217 [no new specimens] [not C. lar Fabricius, 1793 View in CoL ].

Taxonomy: Alcock (1896), Sakai (1965 1976), Campbell and Stephenson (1970), Serène and Soh (1976), Chen and Sun (2002: as N. lar View in CoL ), Naruse and Ng (2006).

Type: Holotype ò ZMB HERBST 2198 (K Sakai 1999).

Type locality: East Indies.

Distribution: Arabian Sea to East Asia: Iranian Gulf, India, South China, Taiwan and Japan ( Sakai 1976).

Habitat: Subtidal; substrates of sand or muddy sand; depths 20 to 35 m ( Sakai 1976).

Remarks: The record of N. lar is based on the list by Shen (1940a), who cited work of Ihle (1918) who regarded N. hardwickii Leach, 1817 and N. plicata Bell, 1855 as junior synonyms of Parthenope lar Fabricius, 1798 . According to Alcock (1896), Campbell and Stephenson (1970) and Sakai (1976), however, N. lar and N. plicata are morphologically distinct. We have little doubt that material as N. plicata recorded by Stimpson (1858 1907) and Alcock (1896), and N. lar of Shen (1940a) are conspecific, and hence list both under N. plicata as above.