TY - JOUR
T1 - A new mud shrimp species of Calastacus (Crustacea
T2 - decapoda: Thalassinidea) from the South China Sea
AU - Komai, Tomoyuki
AU - Lin, Feng Jiau
AU - Chan, Tin Yam
PY - 2009/5/1
Y1 - 2009/5/1
N2 - A new mud shrimp species of the deepwater calocaridid genus Calastacus Faxon, 1893, C. inflatus, is described on the basis of a single specimen from the South China Sea off the Pratas Islands. It is unique in the genus in having a faint cervical groove on the carapace, lacking spiniform projection at the dorsolateral distal angle of the second segment of the antennal peduncle, the possession of only one spine on the ventral margin of the merus of the cheliped, and the unarmed suture on the uropodal exopod. With the addition of the present new species, two species of the genus are now known from the West Pacific.
AB - A new mud shrimp species of the deepwater calocaridid genus Calastacus Faxon, 1893, C. inflatus, is described on the basis of a single specimen from the South China Sea off the Pratas Islands. It is unique in the genus in having a faint cervical groove on the carapace, lacking spiniform projection at the dorsolateral distal angle of the second segment of the antennal peduncle, the possession of only one spine on the ventral margin of the merus of the cheliped, and the unarmed suture on the uropodal exopod. With the addition of the present new species, two species of the genus are now known from the West Pacific.
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U2 - 10.11646/zootaxa.2088.1.3
DO - 10.11646/zootaxa.2088.1.3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67649386188
SN - 1175-5326
SP - 24
EP - 30
JO - Zootaxa
JF - Zootaxa
IS - 2088
ER -