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Ligia novae-zealandiae Dana.
Ligia novae-zealandiae Dana, U.S. Expl. Exped., 14, Crust., pt. 2, p. 739, pl. 49, fig. 2, 1853; Chilton, Trans. Linn. Soc., 8, p. 107, pl. 11, fig. 1, 1901.
Several specimens from Sunday Island.
I refer these to L. novae-zealandiae with some hesitation. They agree in most respects, but have the body narrower than is usually the case in that species, and the uropoda are somewhat longer and, especially in the peduncle, slightly more slender. These specimens agree closely with the description given by Miers of specimens from Port Molle which, he describes under the name “Ligia gaudichaudii var. australiensis Dana.” As Miers pointed out, L. novae-zealandiae (indluding L. quadrata G. M. Thomson) is very close to the species which he was then describing. I have numerous
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specimens from Victoria and Hobart which I have considered to be L. australiensis Dana, and these, though very close to L. novae-zealandiae, differ in a few details in the appendages, especially in the male, and until a careful comparison can be made of specimens from different localities I prefer to keep the two species distinct, and in the meantime to look upon the Kermadec Islands specimens as a local variety of the New Zealand species.