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Type: Article
Published: 2014-04-09
Page range: 135–140
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A new species of Coleusia Galil, 2006 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae) from southern Asia

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hatyai, Songkla, 90112.
Excellence Centre for Biodiversity of Peninsular Thailand (CBIPT), Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hatyai, Songkhla 90112, Thailand.
National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa 31080, Israel
Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura Leucosiidae new species India Thailand Singapore taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of leucosiid crab of the genus Coleusia Galil, 2006, is described from South and Southeast Asia. Coleusia huilianae n. sp. is distinguished from the superficially similar C. urania (Herbst, 1801) in the shape of the apical process of the first male gonopod which is digitate and curved laterally in the former (beak-like and curved interiorly in the latter); possessing smaller and sparser granulation on the posterior and lower margin of the cheliped and ambulatory meri; and the granulation is entirely missing from the lower external surface of the palm.