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Issue: Vol. 4500 No. 4: 18 Oct. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-10-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.4.8
Page range: 587–595
Abstract views: 81
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Teretamon Yeo & Ng, 2007 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India

Zoological Survey of India, F.P.S. Building, 27 J. L. Nehru Road, Kolkata-700016, West Bengal, India
Zoological Survey of India, M- block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, West Bengal, India
Zoological Survey of India, M- block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, West Bengal, India
Crustacea taxonomy Teretamon kempi Namdapha Tiger Reserve

Abstract

A new species of potamid crab of the genus Teretamon Yeo & Ng, 2007, is described from Namdapha Tiger Reserve in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh, India. The new species, T. kempi n. sp., can be distinguished from its congeners by a distinct combination of carapace and gonopod characters: a relatively high carapace with a bilobed frontal margin; subquadrate sixth abdominal somite with nearly parallel lateral margins; and a relatively small G1 terminal segment with a semicircular to bluntly triangular dorsal flap. All known Teretamon species are compared with the new species, and a key for this genus is provided.

 

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