Eriocheir ogasawaraensis Komai, a new species of mitten crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Varunidae) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, with notes on the systematics of Eriocheir De Haan, 1835
Komai, T.; Yamasaki, L.; Kobayashi, S.; Yamamoto, T.; Watanabe, S. (2006). Eriocheir ogasawaraensis Komai, a new species of mitten crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Varunidae) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, with notes on the systematics of Eriocheir De Haan, 1835. Zootaxa 1168(1): 1-20. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1168.1.1
In: Zootaxa. Magnolia Press: Auckland. ISSN 1175-5326; e-ISSN 1175-5334, more
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Taxa > Species > New taxa > New species
Brachyura [WoRMS]; Crustacea [WoRMS]; Decapoda [WoRMS]; Eriocheir De Haan, 1835 [WoRMS]; Varunidae H. Milne Edwards, 1853 [WoRMS]
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- Komai, T.
- Yamasaki, L.
- Kobayashi, S.
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- Yamamoto, T.
- Watanabe, S.
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| Abstract |
A new mitten crab species of the genus Eriocheir De Haan, 1835, E. ogasawaraensis n. sp., is described from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. It is morphologically most similar to E. japonica (De Haan, 1835), found on the Japanese mainland, the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, the Russian Far East, Korea and China, but diagnostic is the proportionately broader and dorsally flattened carapace which usually lacks the fourth anterolateral tooth, the ornamentation of the epistome, the male first gonopod and its the coloration. The biology of the new species and the different interpretations concerning the systematics of Eriocheir are briefly discussed. |
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