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Issue: Vol. 2509 No. 1: 17 Jun. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-06-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2509.1.2
Page range: 30–38
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 3

Two new species of Notonyx A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacidae) from the Philippines and Fiji

Tropical Marine Science Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore
Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, England
Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura Goneplacidae Notonyx new species Fiji Philippines

Abstract

Two new species of goneplacid crabs assigned to Notonyx A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Goneplacidae) are described from the Philippines and Fiji. Notonyx sagittifer n. sp. from Philippines is superficially similar to N. latus Ng & Clark, 2008, from the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia, but the carapace of the new species is proportionately less broad and the morphologies of the male first and second gonopods are significantly different. Notonyx rayneri n. sp. is closest to N. kumi Naruse & Maenosono, 2009, from Japan and Indonesia but differs markedly in its carapace proportions as well as the structures of the male first and second gonopods.

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