Chlorodiella barbata (Borradaile, 1900)

Chlorodiella barbata (Borradaile, 1900) View in CoL ( Fig. 2C–G View Fig )

Chlorodiella barbata Rathbun 1911: 225 View in CoL ; Balss 1934: 515; 1938: 53; Ward 1932: 250; 1939: 10; 1942: 97; Tweedie 1950: 121; Holthuis 1953: 14; Barnard 1954: 98; Forest and Guinot 1961: 96, figs. 93, 94, 99, 100; Michel 1964: 23; Guinot 1967b: 262 [List]; Serène 1968: 81 [List]; 1984: 260, fig. 170, pl. XXXVI A (for complete synonymy); Takeda and Nunomura 1976: 74; Peyrot-Clausade 1977a: 26; 1977b: 213; 1989: 112; Chen and Lan 1978: 270, figs. 4, 7 (4–5), pl. 1, fig. 4; Ribes 1978: 126; Thomassin, 1978: 3, 64; Dai et al. 1986: 314, fig. 168 (1), pl. 45 (3) [Review]; Dai and Yang 1991: 339, fig. 168 (1), pl. 45 (3); Davie 2002: 518 [Review]; Ng et al. 2008: 196 [List]; Lasley et al. 2015: 171.

Material examined: 1 ò, NMNS 8772-11, 4.1 × 2.5, Wanlitong, Pingtung County, 13 May 2009.

Distribution: Indo-West Pacific; French Polynesia ( Serène 1984; Poupin 1996).

Remarks: The morphology of the present specimen ( Fig. 2C–G View Fig ) matches key characters of Chlorodiella barbata (Borradaile, 1900) as described by Serène (1984: 257, fig. 170, pl. XXX VI A). Serène noted that this species can be easily distinguished from its congeners by the presence of a tuft of numerous setae on the external surface of the chelae at the articulation of the finger and a relatively simple, truncate tip of G1. This is the first report of this species from Taiwan.