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Issue: Vol. 3635 No. 1: 25 Mar. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-03-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3635.1.2
Page range: 15–26
Abstract views: 40
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Parapleisticantha Yokoya, 1933, a valid genus of deep-sea inachid spider crab from Japan and the Philippines (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea), with the description of a new species

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Tropical Marine Science Institute & Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore
Australian Museum, 6 College St., Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
Crustacea Inachidae Pleistacantha Parapleisticantha Indo-West Pacific taxonomy

Abstract

The inachid spider crab genus, Parapleisticantha Yokoya, 1933 [type species: Parapleisticantha japonica Yokoya, 1933] is removed from the synonymy of Pleistacantha Miers, 1879 [type species: Pleistacantha sanctijohannis Miers, 1879], and recognised as a valid genus. Parapleisticantha differs from Pleistacantha sensu stricto primarily by having a less spiny carapace, stouter and more inflated male chelipeds, and by lacking a slender subdistal process on the male first gonopod. We redescribe Parapleisticantha japonica based on the Japanese type material and describe as new a second species, Parapleisticantha ludivinae n. sp., recently discovered in thePhilippines.

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