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Issue: Vol. 3266 No. 1: 11 Apr. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-04-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3266.1.4
Page range: 53–61
Abstract views: 65
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of the hermit crab genus Ciliopagurus Forest (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from southern India

Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, 955-2 Aoba-cho, Chuo-ku, Chiba, 260-8682 Japan
Department of Aquatic Biology & Fisheries, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram 695581, Kerala, India
Department of Aquatic Biology & Fisheries, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram 695581, Kerala, India
Crustacea Decapoda Anomura Diogenidae Ciliopagurus new species Kerala India

Abstract

The diogenid hermit crab genus Ciliopagurus Forest, 1995 is currently represented by 18 recent species, 17 species fromthe Indo-West Pacific and one species from the eastern Atlantic. In this paper, we describe a new species, Ciliopagurusgrandis, from off Kerala State, southern India. This new species is compared with six congeneric species, C. albatrossiForest, 1995, C. caparti (Forest, 1952), C. krempfi (Forest, 1952), C. liui Forest, 1995, C. macrolepis Forest, 1995, and C. shebae (Lewinsohn, 1969). It is characteristic in having weakly armed antennal acicles.

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