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Issue: Vol. 5476 No. 1: 4 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5476.1.28
Page range: 347-357
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A new hermit crab species of the genus Catapaguroides A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1892 (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from Okinawa Island, southwestern Japan

Estuary Research Center; Shimane University; 1060 Nishikawatsu-cho; Matsue; Shimane 690-8504; Japan
Graduate School of Engineering and Science; University of the Ryukyus; 1 Senbaru; Nishihara; Okinawa; 903-0213 Japan
Crustacea micro-pagurid new species coral reef western Pacific

Abstract

Catapaguroides ngankeeae n. sp., a new diminutive species of Paguridae, is described from shallow reef environments in Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan. The new species is morphologically similar to C. brevidactylus Komai & Rahayu, 2013 and C. melini de Saint Laurent, 1968, but is distinguished from the two species primarily by the ornamentation of the palm and dactylus of the right cheliped and the length of the right sexual tube in the male. Catapaguroides ngankeeae n. sp. represents the eleventh species of the genus from Japanese waters.

 

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