A new species of the rare caridean genus Bresilia Calman (Crustacea: Decapoda: Bresiliidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, representing a family new to the North Pacific marine fauna

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 2450, 2010, Pages 41-52

  Komai, Tomoyuki ^a   Yamada, Yusuke ^b  

^a NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Ishikawa   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bresilia; Bresiliidae; Caridea; Crustacea; Decapoda; marine cave; new species; Okinawa

Indexed keywords

BRESILIA; BRESILIA ANTIPODARUM; BRESILIA SALDANHAI; BRESILIIDAE; CARIDEA; CARIDEAN; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 77953906710     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2450.1.3     Document Type: Article

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