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Issue: Vol. 3367 No. 1: 4 Jul. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-07-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3367.1.19
Page range: 204–210
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 4

Kume tigra, a new genus and new species of carupine swimming crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae) from Kume Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan

Transdisciplinary Research Organization for Subtropical and Island Studies, University of the Ryukyus, 870 Uehara, Taketomi, Okinawa 907-1541, Japan Current affiliation: Iriomote Station, Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus, 870 Uehara, Taketomi, Okinawa 907-1541, Japan
Tropical Marine Science Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore
Crustacea Kume tigra new genus new species taxonomy Kumejima Ryukyu Islands Japan

Abstract

A new genus and species of swimming crab of the family Portunidae Rafinesque, 1815, is described from Kume Island,Ryukyus, Japan. The new genus of the subfamily Carupinae Paul’son, 1875 is allied to the genera Pele Ng, 2011, andLibystes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867, but differs in the shapes of the carapace, thoracic sternum, third maxilliped, merus of the cheliped, fifth pereiopod, male abdomen and gonopods.

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