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Issue: Vol. 5318 No. 2: 19 Jul. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-07-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5318.2.3
Page range: 217-236
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On the identities of the sesarmid crabs, Sesarma villosum A. Milne-Edwards, 1869, and Clistocoeloma suvaense Edmondson, 1951, with the description of a new species from the West Pacific (Decapoda, Brachyura, Thoracotremata)

Tropical Marine Science Institute; National University of Singapore; 18 Kent Ridge Road; Singapore 119227; Republic of Singapore. Systematics and Ecology Laboratory; Department of Biological Sciences; National University of Singapore; Block S3 Level 2; 4 Science Drive 4; Singapore 117543; Republic of Singapore.
Tropical Marine Science Institute; National University of Singapore; 18 Kent Ridge Road; Singapore 119227; Department of Biological Sciences; National University of Singapore; 14
Tropical Marine Science Institute; National University of Singapore; 18 Kent Ridge Road; Singapore 119227; Science Drive 4; Singapore 117543. Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum; National University of Singapore; 2 Conservatory Drive; Singapore 117377
Crustacea Sesarmidae mangrove crab taxonomy revision of species-group new species re-description

Abstract

The identities of two sesarmid crabs, Clistocoeloma villosum (A. Milne-Edwards, 1869), and C. suvaense Edmondson, 1951, both currently in Clistocoeloma A. Milne-Edwards, 1873, are poorly known and the types have not been studied in detail since their description. Clistocoeloma villosum, supposedly widespread, has been recorded from Madagascar and East Africa to Singapore, Japan, Korea, and Samoa. Clistocoeloma suvaense is only known for certain from one male collected from its type locality, Fiji. The taxonomy of C. villosum, and C. suvaense is clarified on the basis of the type specimens from Samoa and Fiji, respectively. A new species, which has long been confused with C. villosum, is described from Southeast Asia and Western Pacific.

 

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