Vol. 37 No. 3, 1998

New Records of Two Interesting Deep Water Crabs, Homolochunia gadaletae Guinot and Richer de Forges, 1995 (Homolidae) and Rochinia sagamiensis (Gordon, 1931) (Majidae) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), from Taiwan

Jung-Fu Huang¹ and Pan-Wen Hsueh^2,*

¹Department of Aquaculture, National Kaohsiung Institute of Marine Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 811
²Department of Zoology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan 402

Jung-Fu Huang and Pan-Wen Hsueh (1998) The present note records the presence of 2 interesting species of deep water brachyuran crabs from Taiwan. Homolochunia gadaletae Guinot and Richer de Forges, 1995 (Homolidae) and Rochinia sagamiensis (Gordon, 1931) (Majidae) were both previously regarded as Japanese endemics, and their presence in Taiwan is of biogeographical interest. Notes on the egg size and fecundity of R. sagamiensis are also presented.

Key words: New records, Homolochunia gadaletae, Rochinia sagamiensis.

*Correspondence: Tel: 886-4-2840319. Fax: 886-4-2851797. E-mail: pwhsueh@dragon.nchu.edu.tw