The deep-water swimming crabs of the genus Benthochascon (Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae), with description of a new genus for the American B. Schmitti

Journal of Crustacean Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2000, Pages 310-324

  Ng, Peter K L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOCHASCON; BENTHOCHASCON HEMINGI;

EID: 0034211021     PISSN: 02780372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Alcock, A. 1899a. An account of the deep sea Brachyura collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigator. Calcutta, 85 pp.
2. -. 1899b. Materials for a carcinological fauna of India, no. 4. The Brachyura Cyclometopa, Part 2. A revision of the Cyclometopa with an account of the families Portunidae, Cancridae, and Corystidae. - Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 68(2): 1-104.
3. -, and A. R. S. Anderson. 1899. Natural history notes from H.M. Royal Indian marine survey ship Investigator, Commander T. H. Heming R.N., commanding. Series 3, number 2. An account of the deep-sea Crustacea dredged during the surveying-season of 1897-98. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 3: 1-27, 278-292.
4. -, and A. C. MacGilchrist. 1905. Illustrations of the zoology of the Royal Indian Marine surveying steamer Investigator. - Crustacea. Part 11: pls. 68-76.
5. Costa, O. G., and A. Costa. 1838-1871. Crostacei ed Aracnedi. In: Fauna del Regno di Napoli ossia enumerazione di tutti gli Animali che abitano le diverse regioni di questo regno e le acque che le bagnano contenente la descrizione de nuovi o poco esattamente conosciuti con figure ricavate da originali viventi e dipinte al naturale: foglia 1-43 (259 pp., 31 pls.), 1-4 (30 pp., 1 pl.), 1-5 (34 pp. 5 pls.)
6. Davie, P. J. F., and J. W. Short. 1989. Deepwater Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) from southern Queensland, Australia with descriptions of four species. - Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27: 157-187.
7. Doflein, F. 1904. Brachyura. Wiss. Ergebn. Deutschen Teifsee Valdivia Expedition 6: i-xiv, 1-314, figs. 1-68, pls. 1-57.
8. Manning, R. B. 1993. A new deep-sea crab, genus Chaceon, from Indonesia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Geryonidae). - Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 41: 169-172.
9. -, and L. B. Holthuis. 1989. Two new genera and nine new species of geryonid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Geryonidae). - Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 102: 50-77.
10. Miyake, S. 1983. Japanese crustacean decapods and stomatopods in color. Vol. I. Macrura, Anomura and Stomatopoda. Hoikusha Publishing Co., Osaka. 261 pp., 56 colour pls.
11. Moosa, K. M. 1996. Crustacea Decapoda: Deep-water swimming crabs from the South-West Pacific, particularly New Caledonia (Brachyura, Portunidae). Pp. 503-550 in A. Crosnier, ed. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM. vol. 15. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (A)168.
12. Ng, P. K. L., T.-Y. Chan, and S. H. Tan. 1998. The deep-water geryonid crab, Chaceon granulatus (Sakai) in Taiwan (Decapoda, Brachyura). - Crustaceana 71: 73-80.
13. -, D.-A. Lee, and H.-P. Yu. 1994. A new deep sea crab of the genus Chaceon (Decapoda, Geryonidae) from the South China Sea. - Crustaceana 67: 371-380.
14. -, and R. B. Manning, 1998. A new deep-water crab from Belau, Micronesia, with a key to the Pacific species of Chaceon (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Geryonidae). - Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 111: 389-397.
15. Rathbun, M. J. 1931. New crabs from the Gulf of Mexico. - Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 21: 125-128.
16. Sakai, T. 1965. The Crabs of Sagami Bay collected by His Majesty, The Emperor of Japan. Maruzen Co., Tokyo. xvi + 206 pp., pls. 1-100, 1 map.
17. -. 1969. Two new genera and twenty-two new species of crabs from Japan. - Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 82: 243-280.
18. -. 1976. Crabs of Japan and the adjacent seas. In three volumes; English text, pp. xxix + 773 pp., Japanese text, pp. 1-461, Plates volume, pp. 1-16, pls. 1-251. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.
19. Serène, R. 1968. The Brachyura of the Indo Pacific Region. Pp. 33-120 in Prodromus for a check list of the non-planctonic marine fauna of South East Asia. Singapore National Academy of Science, Special Publication No. 1.
20. Stephenson, W. 1972a. Portunid crabs from the Indo-West Pacific and western America in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen (Decapoda, Brachyura, Portunidae). - Steenstrupia 2: 127-156.
21. -. 1972b. An annotated check list and key to the Indo-West Pacific swimming crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda, Portunidae). - Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 10: 1-64.
22. Stev̌cić, Z. 1991. Note on some rare and aberrant Auś tralian crabs. - Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Science 8: 121-134.
23. Stimpson, W. 1871. Preliminary report on the Crustacea dredged in the Gulf Stream in the Straits of Florida, by L. F. de Pourtales, Assist. U. S. Coast Survey. - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 2: 109-160.
24. Wee, D. P. C., and P. K. L. Ng. 1995. Swimming crabs of the genera Charybdis de Haan, 1833, and Thalamita Latreille, 1829 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae) from Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. -Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 1, 128 pp.