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Issue: Vol. 5501 No. 2: 30 Aug. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-08-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5501.2.4
Page range: 291-314
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Galatheoid squat lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from the epipelagic bottom of the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone, with descriptions of five new species

Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology; Ministry of Earth Sciences; Government of India; Atal Bhavan; LNG Terminus Road; Puthuvype; Kochi; 682508; India; Faculty of Marine Sciences; Cochin University of Science and Technology; Kochi 682016; India
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology; Ministry of Earth Sciences; Government of India; Atal Bhavan; LNG Terminus Road; Puthuvype; Kochi; 682508; India
Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology; Ministry of Earth Sciences; Government of India; Atal Bhavan; LNG Terminus Road; Puthuvype; Kochi; 682508; India
Estuary Research Center; Shimane University; 1060 Nishikawatsu-cho; Matsue; Shimane 690-8504; Japan
Crustacea Galatheidae Munididae new species new record India

Abstract

Seven species of galatheoid crustaceans, including five new species, are reported from the southeastern Arabian Sea, southwestern Bay of Bengal, and western Andaman Sea, India, based on material collected from 56 to 113 m depths. Distinctions between the five new species (Galathea bharata sp. nov., G. kalingasagara sp. nov., G. quadrangularis sp. nov., Nanogalathea longispina sp. nov., and Sadayoshia brevirostrum sp. nov.) and their morphological close congeners are given in detail. The genus Nanogalathea Tirmizi & Javed, 1980 is rediagnosed to include N. longispina sp. nov. Trapezionida latior Baba, 2005 is recorded for the first time from Indian waters, indicating northward extension of its known geographical range. A specimen tentatively referred to Galathea aff. nasimae Karasawa, 2019 is also reported from the Andaman Sea.

 

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