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Issue: Vol. 2025 No. 1: 2 Mar. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-03-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2025.1.2
Page range: 21–31
Abstract views: 59
PDF downloaded: 4

Two new species of sesarmid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) associated with limestone formations in West Papua, Indonesia

Division of Zoology, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jalan Raya Jakarta Bogor Km 46, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia
Tropical Marine Science Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore
Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura Sesarmidae Karstarma new species Indonesia

Abstract

Two new species of karst sesarmid crabs of the genus Karstarma Davie & Ng, 2007, are described from western Papua, Indonesia. Karstarma ardea n. sp. differs from the allied K. ultrapes (Ng, Guinot & Iliffe, 1994) from the Solomon Islands by its proportionately shorter ambulatory legs and the shape of its vulva. Karstarma waigeo n. sp. is closest to K. balicum (Ng, 2002) from Bali, Indonesia, but differs in its proportionately longer ambulatory legs and in the morphology of the male first gonopod.

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