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| Lepidothelphusa menneri Ng & Wowor. 2024 |
Abstract
The gecarcinucid freshwater crab genus, Lepidothelphusa Colosi, 1920, is known only from Sarawak in northern Borneo, with six recognised species i.e. Lepidothelphusa cognettii (Nobili, 1903); L. flavochela Grinang & Ng, 2015; L. limau Grinang & Ng, 2015; L. loi Grinang & Ng, 2015; L. padawan Grinang & Ng, 2015; and L. sangon Grinang & Ng, 2015. The genus is now reported from Indonesian Borneo for the first time, from specimens recently collected from Gunung Kelam in Sintang Regency, Kalimantan Barat Province. Lepidothelphusa menneri n. sp. has a very distinctive tri-coloured pattern in life, unique among congeners. It can also easily be separated from congeners by carapace, epistome, male pleonal and male first gonopod characters.
Crustacea, taxonomy, Gecarcincoidea, new taxon, freshwater crab, western Borneo, Southeast Asia.
Peter K. L. Ng and Daisy Wowor. 2024. Lepidothelphusa menneri n. sp. (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae), First Record of the Genus from Kalimantan, Indonesia. Zootaxa. 5397(2); 218-224. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5397.2.3
Researchgate.net/publication/377151155_Lepidothelphusa_menneri_n_sp__first_record_of_the_genus_from_Kalimantan_Indonesia
