A new stygiobiont species of Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from an anchialine cave on Miyako Island, Ryukyu Islands

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1021, 2005, Pages 13-27

  Komai, Tomoyuki ^a   Fujita, Yoshihisa ^b  

^a NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anchialine cave; Caridea; Crustacea; Decapoda; Macrobrachium; Miyako Island; New species; Palaemonidae; Ryukyu Islands

Indexed keywords

CARIDEA; CARIDEAN; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MACROBRACHIUM; MACROBRACHIUM ACHERONTIUM; MACROBRACHIUM CAVERNICOLA; MACROBRACHIUM MICROPS; MACROBRACHIUM POETI; MACROBRACHIUM VILLALOBOSI; PALAEMONIDAE;

EID: 33745268873     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1021.1.2     Document Type: Article

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