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Issue: Vol. 5512 No. 1: 18 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5512.1.10
Page range: 120-126
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Pseudolitochira spinosa, a new species of pilumnid crab from Panglao, Philippines, with a note on P. setosa (A. Milne-Edwards, 1873) (Crustacea, Brachyura, Pilumnoidea)

Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum; Faculty of Science; National University of Singapore; 2 Conservatory Drive; Singapore 117377; Republic of Singapore
Crustacea Western Pacific Bohol taxonomy new taxon spinose carapace

Abstract

A new species of pilumnid crab, Pseudolitochira spinosa sp. nov., is described from a seagrass bed in Panglao, Bohol, central Philippines. The new species is morphologically most similar to P. maenosonoi Ng & Clark, 2022, from Okinawa, Japan, in its proportionately wide carapace, but can be distinguished by the possession of prominent anterolateral spines, distinct spines on the merus of the cheliped and the presence of a well-developed sharp tooth on the inner angle of the cheliped carpus. The taxonomy of the poorly known P. setosa (A. Milne-Edwards, 1873) from New Caledonia is also discussed and a lectotype selected.

 

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