ON 2 NEW SPECIES OF GEOTHELPHUSA STIMPSON, 1858 (DECAPODA, BRACHYURA,POTAMIDAE) FROM THE RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN

Authors
SHY JY NG PKL
Citation
Jy. Shy et Pkl. Ng, ON 2 NEW SPECIES OF GEOTHELPHUSA STIMPSON, 1858 (DECAPODA, BRACHYURA,POTAMIDAE) FROM THE RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN, Crustaceana, 71, 1998, pp. 778-784
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Marine & Freshwater Biology",Zoology
Journal title
Crustaceana → ACNP
ISSN journal
0011216X
Volume
71
Year of publication
1998
Part
7
Pages
778 - 784
Database
ISI
SICI code
0011-216X(1998)71:<778:O2NSOG>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
Two new species of potamid freshwater crabs of the genus Geothelphusa are described from the Ryukyu Islands in southern Japan. Although both G. shokitai sp. nov, and G. minei sp. nov. are allied to G. candidien sis (type locality Taiwan), they differ from that species and from eac h other in the form of their carapaces, ambulatory leg proportions, an d structure of their male first pleopods.