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Type: Article
Published: 2015-12-01
Page range: 127–134
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Leucosiid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Taiwan, with three new records

Department of Environment Biology and Fishery Science, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2 Pei-Ning Road, Keelung, Taiwan 202, R.O.C.
Department of Environment Biology and Fishery Science, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2 Pei-Ning Road, Keelung, Taiwan 202, R.O.C
Institute of Marine Biology and Center of Excellence for the Oceans, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2 Pei-Ning Road, Keelung, Taiwan 202, R.O.C.
Crustacea Ebalia Galilia Myra Nursia taxonomy

Abstract

Four leucosiid species from Taiwan are presented. Ebalia nudipes Sakai, 1963, with its male first gonopod figured for the first time. Galilia petricola Komai & Tsuchida, 2014, is recorded on the basis of a larger specimen, and distinguishing features with its only congener, G. narusei Ng & Richer de Forges, 2007, reappraised. Nursia rhomboidalis (Miers, 1879), previously known only from Japan, Korea, and mainland China, is also recorded from Taiwan. Myra fugax (Fabricius, 1798) is now formally recorded from Taiwan, and female characters identified to help separate the three known Taiwanese species of Myra.