A new species of Geothelphusa Stimpson, 1857, from Taiwan (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae) based on morphological and molecular evidence, with notes on species from western Taiwan

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1877, 2008, Pages 37-48

  Shih, Hsi Te ^a   Naruse, Tohru ^b   Yeo, Darren C J ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Cytochrome oxidase I; G. Candidiensis; G. olea; Geothelphusa siasiat; Taiwan; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BRACHYURA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GEOTHELPHUSA; GEOTHELPHUSA CANDIDIENSIS; GEOTHELPHUSA OLEA; POTAMIDAE;

EID: 52649162888     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1877.1.2     Document Type: Article

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