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Issue: Vol. 3731 No. 1: 29 Oct. 2013
Type: Article
Published: 2013-10-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3731.1.2
Page range: 58–76
Abstract views: 70
PDF downloaded: 4

On the genus Scalopidia Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea: Scalopidiidae), with the description of one new genus and three new species

Tropical Marine Science Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore
Biological Sciences Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California 91768–4032, USA.
Decapoda Brachyura Scalopidiidae revision Indian Ocean Papua New Guinea taxonomy new genus new species

Abstract

A revision of Scalopidia Stimpson, 1858 (Brachyura: Goneplacoidea: Scalopidiidae) has resulted in the description of two new species of Scalopidia from the Indian Ocean and Papua New Guinea, as well as a new genus and new species from Madagascar. The type species of Scalopidia, S. spinosipes Stimpson, 1858, is redescribed and Hypophthalmus leuchochirus Richters, in Lenz & Richters, 1881, is synonymised with S. spinosipes.