338 M. DE SAINT LAURENT & J. POUPIN
Ce travail comprend la liste commentée des espèces reconnues, précédée d'une clef d'identification, rédigée en français
et en anglais. De nouvelles diagnoses et des illustrations sont données pour des espèces encore rares et mal connues, ainsi
que des remarques sur leurs affinités. Le genre est subdivisé en deux sous-genres d'importance à peu près égale,
correspondant, respectivement, aux groupes A et B de
GORDON
(1930) : Eumunida (Eumunida) Smith, 1880, qui comprend
14 espèces, et Eumunida (Eumunidopsis) subgen. nov., auquel se rapportent 13 espèces.
ABSTRACT
Crustacea, Anomura : The Indo-West Pacific species of the genus Eumunida Smith, 1880
(Chirostylidae), with the description of six new species.
New spécimens of the genus Eumunida Smith hâve been collected in the Indo-West Pacific, including new or poorly
known species. The study of the material collected, together with the reexamination of types or published spécimens of
previously described species, demonstrated the need for a revision of the genus in the vast Indo-West Pacific area.
The two groups of species recognised by authors since the work of
GORDON
(1930) are elevated in the présent paper to
subgeneric rank. The nominal subgenus Eumunida includes those species bearing a pair of well-developed spines on the
anterior margin of the thoracic sternite 4 (group A of
GORDON).
The new subgenus Eumunidopsis, with Eumunida capillata
de Saint Laurent & Macpherson, 1990, as type species, includes the species in which the anterior margin of this sternite
is at most finely denticulated, most usually without any prominent spines.
Four new species are established in the subgenus Eumunida: E. (Eumunida) treguieri sp. nov., from French Polynesia,
E. (Eumunida) multilineata sp. nov., from the eastern coast of Australia, and E. (Eumunida) depressa and E. (Eumunida)
macphersoni spp. nov., both from Japan. Two new Indonesian species are described in the subgenus Eumunidopsis,
E. (Eumunidopsis) ampliata and E. (Eumunidopsis) karubar spp. nov.
Apart from the description of new taxa, the présent study includes a revised list of ail known species from the Indo-
West Pacific area, with an identification key, in French and English, along with références, types, remarks on the
affinities and distribution. Whenever it has seemed useful, new diagnoses and illustrations of poorly known species are
provided for each taxon.
Two species hâve been collected in French Polynesia, where the genus had never before been found. E. (Eumunida)
treguieri sp. nov. is a large species, close to E. (Eumunida) similior Baba, 1990, from Madagascar and to another new
species from Japan. The second Polynesian species is E. (Eumunida) keijii de Saint Laurent & Macpherson, 1990,
previously known only from New Caledonian waters.
The Franco-Indonesian cruise
KARUBAR,
in 1992, has provided a few Eumunida. This material includes three
spécimens of E. (Eumunidopsis) smithii Henderson, 1885, about 20 individuals of a closely-allied species,
E. (Eumunidopsis) karubar sp. nov., a very small spécimen of E. (Eumunidopsis) laevimana Gordon, 1930, never found
since its original description, and one young maie, provisionally identified as E. (Eumunida) pacifica Gordon, 1930. The
taxonomic problems centered around Eumunida smithii, already discussed in
DE SAINT LAURENT
&
MACPHERSON
(1990a),
hâve been solved ; the new
KARUBAR
material identified with it allows a better définition of the species and leads to the
proposai of the synonymy of Eumunida propior Baba, 1988 with
HENDERSON'S
species. The "Siboga" spécimens
identified as E. balssi by
VAN DAM
(1933) are conspecific with it, while the material identified by
GORDON
(1930) and
VAN DAM
(1933) as E. smithii Henderson represents the same new taxon, herein described as E. (Eumunidopsis) ampliata
sp.
nov. The small maie from the "Albatross" dredgings cited in
BABA
(1988) belongs to another species very close to, if
not identical with, E. (Eumunidopsis) capillata de Saint Laurent & Macpherson, 1990. The
KARUBAR
collections also
include two dozen individuals of another new species, E. (Eumunidopsis) karubar sp. nov., very close to
E. (Eumunidopsis) parva de Saint Laurent & Macpherson, 1990, and E. (Eumunidopsis) smithii. Thèse three species form
a small unit of related taxa, without a pad on the propodus of the chelipeds, and in which the maies hâve vestigial
pleopods on abdominal segments 3 to 5, absent in ail other Eumunida.
Examination of three Japanese spécimens of Eumunida cited by
MIYAKÉ
(1982: 144, pi. 48), and
BABA
(1986: 287,
fig.
116) under the names E. fumambulus and E. pacifica, respectively proved to belong to neither species: they represent
two différent, new species, which are hère described as E. depressa and E. macphersoni spp. nov. The first is close to the
new Polynesian species E. treguieri, the second to E. pacifica and E. keijii.
The geographical ranges of several species are extended: E. (Eumunida) keijii de Saint Laurent & Macpherson, 1990,
described from New Caledonian waters, has now been found in French Polynesia and off Wallis Islands in the South
Eastern Pacific. Spécimens attributed to E. (Eumunida) capillata, described by the same authors from New Caledonia, hâve
been collected in Indonesia during the French Indonesian cruise
KARUBAR;
the "Albatross" spécimen from the South of
Taiwan, refered to E. smithii by
BABA
(1988), is also hère attributed to E. capillata. Three small Eumunida
(Eumunidopsis) from the Marshall Islands (Bikini), provided by the National Muséum of Natural History, Washington,
are identified as E. (Eumunida) minor de Saint Laurent & Macpherson, 1990, previously known only from New Caledonia
and Madagascar.