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Issue: Vol. 1861 No. 1: 1 Sep. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-09-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1861.1.2
Page range: 17–28
Abstract views: 54
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New records of deep-sea spider crabs of the genus Cyrtomaia Miers, 1886, from the Pacific Ocean, with description of a new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majidae)

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, BPA5, Nouméa cedex, New Caledonia
Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore
Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura Majidae Cyrtomaia taxonomy new species

Abstract

Recent collections of deep-sea majid crabs from the South Pacific Ocean and Taiwan provide new records of five species of Cyrtomaia Miers, 1886, and a new species from French Polynesia, C. polynesica n. sp. The news species is most similar to the recently described C. micronesica Richer de Forges & Ng, 2007, but differs from this species in the morphology of its carapace and pereopods.

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