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| Leptarma biju Ng & Devi, 2020 |
Abstract
A new species of long-legged sesarmid crab of the Leptarma leptosoma (Hilgendorf, 1869) species-group is described from mangroves in south-western India. In the general carapace features as well as in the proportions of the long ambulatory legs, Leptarma biju n. sp. is most similar to L. gracilipes (Li, Rahayu & Ng, 2018), from eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, but can easily be distinguished by the structure of the gonopods as well as the leg proportions.
Keywords: Taxonomy; new species; sesarmid crab; Leptarma leptosoma species-group; Indian Ocean
Peter K. L. Ng and Suvarna S. Devi. 2020. A New Tree-spider Crab of the Genus Leptarma (Brachyura, Sesarmidae) from Mangroves in Kerala, India. Crustaceana. 93(7); 759–768. DOI: 10.1163/15685403-bja10030
