Uca Jocelynae sp. nov., a new species of fiddler crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) from the Western Pacific

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 2337, 2010, Pages 47-62

  Shih, Hsi Te ^a   Naruse, Tohru ^b   Ng, Peter K L ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Cytochrome oxidase I; Taxonomy; U. neocultrimana; U. vocans complex; Uca jocelynae; Western Pacific islands

Indexed keywords

BRACHYURA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA;

EID: 77953986100     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2337.1.4     Document Type: Article

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