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Issue: Vol. 1255 No. 1: 10 Jul. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-07-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1255.1.5
Page range: 57–61
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 5

A new species of Mursia Desmarest, 1823 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Calappidae) from the Andaman Sea

Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 11920, Republic of Singapore
National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research P.O.B. 8030, Haifa 31080, Israel
Crustacea Calappidae Mursia new species Andaman Sea

Abstract

An examination of a series of calappid crabs collected from the Andaman Sea and deposited in the Zoological Reference Collection of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, revealed a new species, Mursia xianshengi n. sp. It differs from the closely related M. buwaya Galil & Takeda, 2004, in its larger size, wider carapace, and the anteriorly curved lateral spines of the carapace.

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