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Issue: Vol. 4433 No. 1: 11 Jun. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-06-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4433.1.13
Page range: 195–200
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A new pea crab species of the genus Arcotheres Manning, 1993 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) from India

Department of Life Sciences, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat, India.
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Km. 103 Carretera Tijuana – Ensenada, Ensenada, 22800 Baja California, Mexico.
Marine Biodiversity and Ecology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
Crustacea Pinnotheridae new species dactylus length Gulf of Mannar India

Abstract

A new species of pinnotherid crab, Arcotheres shahi n. sp., is described on the basis of specimens collected during a crustacean survey along the coastal areas of Pamban fishing harbor in the Gulf of Mannar, Tamil Nadu state, east coast of India. The new species resembles A. pernicola (Bürger, 1895), A. winckworthi (Gordon, 1936) and A. rayi Ahyong & Ng, 2007, in having the dactyli of the longer fourth pereopod longer than that of fifth pereopod. Arcotheres shahi n. sp. differs from these three known species in the shape of female carapace, frontal region and chela, setal pattern on the dactyli of the fourth and fifth pereopods and relative length of the ambulatory pereiopods.

 

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