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Issue: Vol. 4109 No. 4: 10 May 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-05-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.4.5
Page range: 471–478
Abstract views: 63
PDF downloaded: 1

A new Theosbaena (Thermosbaenacea: Halosbaenidae) from Thailand

Kansas Biological Survey and the Natural History Museum (Biodiversity Institute), Kansas University, Higuchi Hall, 2101 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047-3759 USA
Applied Taxonomic Research Center, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand
Malacostraca stygobionts Southeast Asia cave fauna Crustacea

Abstract

We present a second species of Theosbaena, which also represents the second species of Thermosbaenacea from mainland Asia. This new species is apparently endemic to a limestone cave in Nakhon Sawan Province in central Thailand. Theosbaena kiatwongchai n. sp. is separated from T. cambodjiana by the form of the gnathopod, the form of the pereopod exopodites, the lack of a pleopod I, and a cleft telson.

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