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Issue: Vol. 2405 No. 1: 22 Mar. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-03-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2405.1.2
Page range: 48–54
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 3

Metadynomene tuamotu, a new species of dynomenid crab from French Polynesia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)

Tropical Marine Science Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore
School of Biological Sciences, Canterbury University Christchurch, 8004, New Zealand
Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura Dynomenidae new species taxonomy

Abstract

A large dynomenid specimen from the Tuamotu Archipelago previously thought to belong to Metadynomene tanensis (Yokoya, 1933) is shown to be a new species, M. tuamotu sp. nov. Metadynomene tanensis is a widespread Western Pacific species occurring from Japan to New Zealand; while M. tuamotu sp. nov. joins M. devaneyi (Takeda, 1977) as the second species of this genus known from French Polynesia. A key to the genus is provided.

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