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Issue: Vol. 4027 No. 1: 1 Oct. 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-10-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4027.1.7
Page range: 135–139
Abstract views: 52
PDF downloaded: 1

First record of Albunea occulta (Boyko) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Albuneidae) from the Andaman Islands, India

Department of Ocean Studies and Marine Biology, Pondicherry University, Brookshabad Campus, Port Blair – 744 112, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
Zoological Survey of India, Regional Centre, Port Blair – 744 102, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
Department of Ocean Studies and Marine Biology, Pondicherry University, Brookshabad Campus, Port Blair – 744 112, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
Department of Ocean Studies and Marine Biology, Pondicherry University, Brookshabad Campus, Port Blair – 744 112, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
Department of Ocean Studies and Marine Biology, Pondicherry University, Brookshabad Campus, Port Blair – 744 112, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
Crustacea Decapoda Albuneidae

Abstract

The anomuran crabs of the family Albuneidae Stimpson, 1858 are specialized forms, living buried in sand. Because of their preferred habitat, they are very rarely encountered, and thus have been poorly studied in general (Osawa & Fujita 2012). They are commonly called “Sand crabs” (Boyko 2002). Worldwide, the Albuneidae family currently includes 48 species belonging to nine genera (Boyko & McLaughlin 2010). Among these species, the present study reported Albunea occulta Boyko, 2002 as new record to Indian coastal regions particularly from Andaman Islands.