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Issue: Vol. 5194 No. 4: 7 Oct. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-10-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5194.4.8
Page range: 595-600
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On the identity of Myopilumnus andamanicus Deb, 1989 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Pilumnidae) from India

1Animal Taxonomy and Ecology Laboratory, Department of Life sciences, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan-384265, Gujarat, India
Animal Taxonomy and Ecology Laboratory, Department of Life sciences, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan-384265, Gujarat, India. 2Marine Biodiversity and Ecology Lab, Department of Zoology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara,Gujarat, India.
3Zoological Survey of India, F.P.S. Building, 27 J. L. Nehru Road, Kolkata–700016, West Bengal, India.
4Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 2 Conservatory Drive, 117377, Republic of Sin­gapore.
Crustacea Myopilumnus Lophoplax Neil Island Indian Ocean mangrove taxonomy diagnosis

Abstract

The identity of the poorly known pilumnid crab Myopilumnus andamanicus Deb, 1989 originally described from Neil Island, South Andaman Islands, India, is clarified. A re-examination of the holotype female shows that Deb’s taxon is actually a species of Lophoplax Tesch, 1918. Myopilumnus is synonymized with Lophoplax. Lophoplax andamanica n. comb. is redescribed and compared with congeners. This is the first record of Lophoplax from the Indian Ocean.

 

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