| Author | Keiji Baba |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 9782856538227 |
| Publisher | Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle |
| Pages | 612 |
| Size | 228 x 276 mm |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Images | B/w line drawings, includes DVD-ROM |
| Year published | 2018 |
Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, a continuation of Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, is a series dedicated to the inventory and description of the deep-sea fauna of the world, with special emphasis on the most extensive, yet remote and least explored, region – the Indo-West Pacific. The comprehensive series of marine expeditions undertaken by the French Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) continue to collect many new, strange and sometimes colourful invertebrates.
Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos Volume 30 - Chirostylidae of the Western and Central Pacific in the series deals with a huge amount of material assembled by numerous French cruises to the western and central Pacific. This book describes Chirostylidae of the Western and Central Pacific: Uroptychus and a New Genus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura).
Among chirostylid squat lobsters of the anomuran Crustacea, the genus Uroptychus is the most speciose. The majority of species are common in deep-waters, usually found associated with soft corals, black corals, and rarely with sea pens and crinoids. One hundred fifty species are reported from this region, including 106 new species, six of which are placed in a new genus Heteroptychus. Now more than 50 per cent of Indo-West Pacific species occur in New Caledonia and its vicinity, demonstrating high species richness in this region.
The language of Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos Volume 30 - Chirostylidae of the Western and Central Pacific is in English, but has a bilingual abstract in English and French.
