Mighty claws: A new genus and species of lobster from the Philippine deep sea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Nephropidae);Les pinces de la terreur: Un nouveau genre et une nouvelle espèce de langoustine du bathyal des Philippines (Crustacea, Decapoda, Nephropidae)

Zoosystema

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 525-535

  Ahyong, Shane T ^a   Chan, Tin Yam ^b   Bouchet, Philippe ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Census of marine life; Crustacea; Decapoda; Deep water; Lobster; Nephropidae; New genus; New species; Philippines

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); NEPHROPIDAE; THAUMASTOCHELES; THAUMASTOCHELOPSIS; UROPODA;

EID: 77957823619     PISSN: 12809551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5252/z2010n3a11     Document Type: Article

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