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Issue: Vol. 4323 No. 2: 21 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.2.5
Page range: 219–228
Abstract views: 84
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of the swimming crab genus, Laleonectes Manning & Chace, 1990 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae), from the western Indian Ocean

Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 2 Conservatory Drive, 117377 Singapore
Department of Aquatic Biology & Fisheries, University of Kerala, Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram—695581, Kerala, India
Crustacea Decapoda Portunoidea Laleonectes kuriya Réunion Tamil Nadu India taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of swimming crab, Laleonectes kuriya, is described from the western Indian Ocean (Réunion and southwestern India). The new species is morphologically most similar to the Pacific species, L. nipponensis (Sakai, 1938), but differs primarily in the relative length of the ambulatory legs, as well as in the shape of the malesixth pleomere and the form of the first and second male pleopods.

 

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