Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity

The Korean Society of Systematic Zoology (한국동물분류학회)
권호 표지
DOI QR코드

DOI QR Code

First Report of Stilt Crab Crossotonotus spinipes (Decapoda: Palicoidea: Crossotonotidae) from Korea

  • Lee, Sang-Kyu (School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kim, Sa-Heung (Laboratory of Marine Biodiversity, IN THE SEA KOREA Co. Ltd.) ;
  • Kim, Won (School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University)
  • Received : 2010.10.23
  • Accepted : 2010.11.12
  • Published : 2010.11.30
Download PDF
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

A stilt crab Crossotonotus spinipes (De Man, 1888) is newly reported from Korean waters as a result of continuous taxonomic studies on crabs. The present specimen has a row of tubercles and a longitudinal lobe with denticles on the dorsal border of the propodus of the chelipeds, and a shorter Pereopod 5. The description and illustration of this species are provided.

Keywords

References

  1. Castro, P., 2000. Crustacea Decapoda: A revision of the Indowest pacific species of palicid crabs (Brachyura Palicidae). Mem. Mus. Natn. Hist. nat., Paris, 184: 1-813.
  2. Davie, P.J.F., 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Eucarida (Part 2): Decapoda-Anomura, Brachyura. Vol. 19.3B. In: Zoological Catalogue of Australia (Eds., A. Wells and W.W.K. Houston). pp. 1-641. CSIRO Publiching, Melbourne.
  3. De Man, J.G., 1888. Bericht uber die von Herrn Dr. J. Brock im indischen Archipel gesammelten Decapoden und Stomatopoden. Arch. Naturgesch, 53(1): 215-600. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.4747
  4. Moosa, M.K. and R. Serene, 1981. Observations on the Indo-West-Pacific Palicidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) with description of two new subfamilies, four new genera and six new species. Mar. Res. Indonesia, 22: 21-66.
  5. Ng, P.K.L., D. Guinot and P.J.F. Davie, 2008. Systema Brachyurorum: Part 1. An annotated checklist of extant brachyran crabs of the world. Raff. Bull. Zool., 17: 2-286.
  6. Rathbun, M.J., 1911. Marine Brachyura. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, Vol. 3, no. 11. Transactions of the Linnean Society, London, Ser. 2, 14(2): 191-261. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1911.tb00084.x
  7. Ward, M., 1933. New genera and species of marine Decapoda Brachyura from the coasts of New South Wales and Queensland. Aust. Zool., 7(5): 377-394.