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Issue: Vol. 2128 No. 1: 9 Jun. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-06-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2128.1.3
Page range: 61–68
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 1

Redescription and mitochondrial identification of Chiromantes boulengeri (Calman, 1920) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) based on fresh material from the Persian Gulf, Iran

Marine Zoologie, Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Biologie, Institut für Zoologie, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
Crustacea Brachyura Sesarmidae Chiromantes molecular phylogeny mtDNA

Abstract

Chiromantes boulengeri (Calman, 1920) is redescribed based on fresh material from Iran. The species is morphologically more similar to C. dehaani (H. Milne Edwards, 1853) than both of these species are to the type species of the genus, C. haematocheir (De Haan, 1833). Results from mitochondrial DNA, however, propose a closer sister species relationship of the two East Asian species, C. haematocheir (De Haan, 1833) and C. dehaani.

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