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Issue: Vol. 5476 No. 1: 4 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5476.1.37
Page range: 514-521
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Description of a new genus and new species of freshwater crab (Crustacea, Decapoda, Potamidae) from Yunnan, China

Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum; National University of Singapore; 2 Conservatory Drive; Singapore 117377; Republic of Singapore.; Department of Biological Sciences; National University of Singapore; 14 Science Drive 4; Singapore 117543; Republic of Singapore
Research lab of Freshwater Crustacean Decapoda & Paragonimus; School of Basic Medical Sciences; Nanchang University; 461 Bayi Avenue; 330006 P.R. China.; Key Laboratory of Payang Lake Environment and Resource Utilization; Ministry of Education; Nanchang University; 461 Bayi Avenue; 330006 P.R. China
Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum; National University of Singapore; 2 Conservatory Drive; Singapore 117377; Republic of Singapore.; Department of Biological Sciences; National University of Singapore; 14 Science Drive 4; Singapore 117543; Republic of Singapore
Crustacea Taxonomy primary freshwater crab Potamiscinae new taxa description comparative morphology

Abstract

A new genus and new species of freshwater crab is described from Yunnan Province, China. Proboscimon keeae gen. n., sp. n. belongs to a group of Chinese genera that lack a flagellum on the exopod of the third maxilliped. Of these, it is superficially most similar to Arquatopotamon Chu, Zhou & Sun, 2017 from Yunnan, but is distinguished from it and other genera mainly by the form of its male first pleopod as well as characters of the carapace, thoracic sternum, and male sternopleonal cavity.

 

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