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Issue: Vol. 3616 No. 5: 22 Feb. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-02-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.5.6
Page range: 495–500
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 28

A new species of false spider crab of the genus Elamena H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae), from Davao Gulf, Philippines

Institute of Biology, College of Science, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City 1101, Philippines
Department of Geology and Paleontology, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki 305-0005
Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, 117543 Singapore
Crustacea Brachyura Hymenosomatidae Elamena Elamena samalensis Samal Island Davao Gulf Mindanao Philippines

Abstract

A new species of hymenosomatid crab of the genus Elamena H. Milne Edwards, 1837, is described from the island of Samal, in the Davao Gulf, Mindanao, southern Philippines. Elamena samalensis sp. nov. belongs to the Elamena truncata species-group and is most similar to E. simplidenta Ng & Chuang, 1996, in the general form of the carapace and in the presence of only one subdistal tooth on the ambulatory dactyli. It can be distinguished from this species, however, by its more projecting rostrum, relatively longer and more slender ambulatory legs, and by the pointed apex of the female ple-otelson.

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