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Issue: Vol. 5357 No. 3: 19 Oct. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-10-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.3.4
Page range: 398-422
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Coral reef-associated brachyuran fauna (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Angria Bank off the west coast of India

Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology; Ministry of Earth Sciences; Government of India; Atal Bhavan; LNG Terminus Road; Puthuvype; Kochi; 682508; India
CSIR – National Institute of Oceanography; Dona Paula; Goa; 403004; India
School of Earth; Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences; Goa University; Goa; 403206; India
CSIR – National Institute of Oceanography; Dona Paula; Goa; 403004; India; National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research; Ministry of Earth Sciences; Government of India; Headland Sada; Vasco-Da-Gama; Goa; 403804; India
Crustacea Brachyura reef-associated India new records range extension

Abstract

Underwater sampling via SCUBA and grab at the Angria Bank coral reefs off the central west coast of India in January 2014 revealed 11 species of Brachyura. Seven species, namely, Thusaenys irami (Laurie, 1906), Tanaocheles bidentata (Nobili, 1901), Portunus convexus De Haan, 1835, Xiphonectes macrophthalmus (Rathbun, 1906), Thalamita gatavakensis Nobili, 1906, Serenius ceylonicus (Laurie, 1906), and Soliella flava (Rathbun, 1894) are reported for the first time from Indian waters. Furthermore, the geographical distribution of T. irami and S. ceylonicus is extended westwards of hitherto known ranges.

 

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