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Issue: Vol. 2982 No. 1: 2 Aug. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-08-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2982.1.2
Page range: 27–32
Abstract views: 74
PDF downloaded: 6

A new species of Notonyx A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacidae) from the Philippines

Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, England
Tropical Marine Science Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore
Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura Goneplacidae Notonyx new species Sulu Islands Philippines

Abstract

A new species of Notonyx A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Goneplacidae) is described from the Sulu Archipelago, southern Philippines. It is closest to the type species, N. nitidus A. Milne-Edwards, 1873, but differs in the form of the abdomen and third maxillipeds, and most significantly, in the structures of the male first and second gonopods.

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