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Issue: Vol. 4032 No. 5: 20 Oct. 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-10-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4032.5.8
Page range: 595–599
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 1

First record of the Nephropid genus Acanthacaris Bate, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Nephropidae) from Taiwan

Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 20224, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 20224, Taiwan, R.O.C. Center of Excellence for the Oceans, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 20224, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Crustacea Acanthacaris new record deep-sea Taiwan

Abstract

The giant deep-sea lobster genus Acanthacaris Bate, 1888 is reported for the first time from Taiwan. The single specimen with a total length of 36 cm was collected near a cold seep off southwestern Taiwan at about 1300 m deep and identified as A. tenuimana Bate, 1888.