The Hymenosomatidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) of Southeast Asia, with notes on other species

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn 44, Issue 3 SUPPL., 1996, Pages 1-82

  Ng, Peter K L ^a   Chuang, Christina T N ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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