TY - JOUR
T1 - First record of the thalassinidean genus Callianopsis De Saint Laurent, 1973 (Decapoda, Ctenochelidae) in the West Pacific, with the description of a new species from Taiwan
AU - Lin, Feng Jiau
AU - Komai, Tomoyuki
AU - Chan, Tin Yam
N1 - Funding Information:
Grateful acknowledgements are extended to R. Lemaitre of the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., for sending us on loan material of Callianopsis goniophthalma for comparison; to L. B. Holthuis of the Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden for providing suggestions on the new name; and to G. C. B. Poore of the Museum Victoria, and D. L. Felder of the University of Louisiana for their valuable comments on the generic status of the new species. This work is a contribution from a research grant supported by the National Science Council, Taiwan, R.O.C. and the Center for Marine Bioscience and Biotechnology of the National Taiwan Ocean University to the third author.
PY - 2007/10/1
Y1 - 2007/10/1
N2 - Callianopsis anovalis sp. nov. is described from a specimen collected by a deep-sea commercial trawler off northeastern Taiwan at around 300 m deep. The new species is unique in the genus by lacking a dorsal oval on the carapace. The genus Callianopsis De Saint Laurent, 1973 is recorded hereby for the first time in the western Pacific.
AB - Callianopsis anovalis sp. nov. is described from a specimen collected by a deep-sea commercial trawler off northeastern Taiwan at around 300 m deep. The new species is unique in the genus by lacking a dorsal oval on the carapace. The genus Callianopsis De Saint Laurent, 1973 is recorded hereby for the first time in the western Pacific.
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U2 - 10.1163/156854007782321191
DO - 10.1163/156854007782321191
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:35548984458
SN - 0011-216X
VL - 80
SP - 1193
EP - 1203
JO - Crustaceana
JF - Crustaceana
IS - 10
ER -