A new large oregoniid spider crab of the genus Pleistacantha Miers, 1879, from the Bay of Bengal, India (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majoidea)
| Autor: | Peter K. L. Ng, Raveendhiran Ravinesh, S. Ravichandran |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | ZooKeys, Vol 716, Iss , Pp 127-146 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1313-2970 1313-2989 |
| DOI: | 10.3897/zookeys.716.21349 |
| Popis: | A new species of deep-water oregoniid spider crab of the genus Pleistacantha Miers, 1879, is described from the Indian Ocean. The species is distinct in possessing a prominently inflated carapace in which the median parts of the branchial regions almost meet. It can also be distinguished from its closest congeners, P. moseleyi (Miers, 1885), P. pungens (Wood-Mason, in Wood-Mason and Alcock 1891), and P. ori Ahyong & Ng, 2007, in its more elongate and less spinose chelipeds and ambulatory legs, shorter third maxilliped, trapezoidal male pleon and a male first gonopod which is relatively stout with a short subdistal dorsal papilla. |
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