A new species of the freshwater crab, previously assigned to Geothelphusa miyazakii (Miyake & Chiu, 1965) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Potamidae), from Yaeyama Group, Southern Ryukyus, Japan

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 555-562

  Naruse, Tohru ^a,b   Shokita, Shigemitsu ^a   Shy, Jhy Yun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b Sea Turtle Association of Japan   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL PENGHU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

G. m. fulva; Geothelphusa marginata marginata; New species; Potamidae; Southern Ryukyus; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GEOTHELPHUSA; POTAMIDAE;

EID: 15944372343     PISSN: 02172445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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