Geothelphusa miyakoensis, a new species of freshwater crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Miyako Island, Southern Ryukyus, Japan

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 443-448

  Shokita, Shigemitsu ^a   Naruse, Tohru ^a   Fujii, Haruhiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b Okinawa Pref Pub Hlth Association   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geothelphusa miyakoensis; Japan; Miyako Island; New species; Potamidae; Southern Ryukyus; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BRACHYURA; CAESIA; CLITELLARIA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; POTAMIDAE;

EID: 0042665817     PISSN: 02172445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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