A revision of the spider crabs of the genus Paratymolus Miers, 1879, with descriptions of two new genera and six new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majidae)

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 365-407

  Loh, L W ^a   Ng, Peter K L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Crustacea; Majidae; New genera; New species; Revision; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033272115     PISSN: 02172445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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