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Issue: Vol. 2291 No. 1: 17 Nov. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-11-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2291.1.2
Page range: 24–34
Abstract views: 109

Lithoselatium tantichodoki, a new species of intertidal crab (Crustacea:
Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from southern Thailand

Reference Collection, Phuket Marine Biological Center, Phuket Marine Biological Center, P.O. Box 60, Phuket, 83000, Thailand
Tropical Marine Science Institute and Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University of Singapore, 14, Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore
Crustacea Brachyura Lithoselatium new species Thailand

Abstract

A new species of intertidal sesarmid crab, Lithoselatium tantichodoki new species, is described from the Gulf of Thailand. The species is superficially similar to L. kusu Schubart, Liu & Ng, 2009, from Singapore and Malaysia, but differs in the proportions of the ambulatory legs and the structure of the male first gonopod.

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