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Vol. 63, 2024
(update: 2024.12.10)
An Integrated Taxonomy Approach
Identified the Final Stage of Giant Phyllosoma of Parribacus antarcticus (Lund, 1793)
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae) from Taiwan Waters
Guo-Chen
Jiang1 , Chien-Hui Yang2, Kaori Wakabayashi3, and Tin-Yam Chan2,*
doi:10.6620/ZS.2024.63-56
1Department
of Aquaculture, National Penghu University of Science and Technology,
Penghu 880, Taiwan. E-mail: gcjiang@gms.npu.edu.tw (Jiang)
2Institute of Marine Biology and Centre of Excellence
for the Oceans, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2 Pei-Ning Road,
Keelung 202301, Taiwan. *Correspondence: E-mail:
tychan@mail.ntou.edu.tw (Chan)
E-mail: chyang@ntou.edu.tw (Yang)
3Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life and
Graduate School of Innovation and Practice for Smart Society, Hiroshima
University, Kgaminaya, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8528, Japan.
E-mail: kaoriw@hiroshima-u.ac.jp (Wakabayashi)
Received 7 September 2024 /
Accepted 27 November 2024 / Published 27 December 2024
Communicated by Benny K.K. Chan
A
bizarre marine planktonic organism giant phyllosoma with a body length
of 79 mm was collected off Taiwanese waters for the first time. The
specimen is positively identified as Parribacus
antarcticus (Lund, 1793) by DNA barcoding, representing the
largest and the first final stage giant phyllosoma with identification
confirmed. The characteristics of the phyllosoma from Taiwan is
described and illustrated in detail. As morphometric ratios previously
proposed for identifying phyllosomae of Parribacus failed to assign
correctly the species of the Taiwanese specimen, there is still no
reliable morphological character for separating these giant
phyllosomae. A key to the different phyllosoma stages of P. antarcticus is provided.
Key words: Lobsters, Larvae,
New record, DNA barcoding
Citation: Jiang GC, Yang CH, Wakabayashi
K, Chan TY. 2024. An integrated taxonomy approach identified the final
stage of giant phyllosoma of Parribacus
antarcticus (Lund, 1793) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae) from
Taiwan waters. Zool Stud 63:56.
doi:10.6620/ZS.2024.63-56.
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