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Issue: Vol. 1038 No. 1: 19 Aug. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-08-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1038.1.5
Page range: 53–63
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Lissoporcellana (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae) from Okinawa, southwestern Japan

Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Graduate School of Engineering and Science, University of the Ryukyus, 1 Senbaru, Nishihara-cho, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
University Education Center, University of the Ryukyus, 1 Senbaru, Nishihara-cho, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
Crustacea Anomura Porcellanidae Lissoporcellana new species Japan

Abstract

Lissoporcellana flagellicola, a new porcellanid crab associated with an unidentified species of unbranched sea whip (Ellisellidae), is described from Okinawa-jima Island, the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan. The new species appears close to L. quadrilobata (Miers) but differs by the less elongate carapace and the shape of the lateral lobes of the rostrum and terminal claws of the ambulatory dactyli.

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