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- Title
Two new species of the freshwater crab genus Sundathelphusa Bott, 1969 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from Negros Island, Philippines.
- Authors
Husana, Daniel Edison M.; Kase, Tomoki; Mendoza, Jose Christopher E.
- Abstract
Two new, long-legged species of the freshwater crab genus Sundathelphusa Bott, 1969, are described from the island of Negros in the central Philippines. These are Sundathelphusa orsoni, new species, from the forested foothills of Mount Kanlaon in the northern region of the island, and S. niwangtiil, new species, a troglophilic species from the hilly southern region. These two species are similar to Philippine congeners such as S. longipes (Balss, 1937), S. wolterecki Balss, (1937), S. sutteri (Bott, 1970), S. celer (Ng, 1991), and S. holthuisi Ng, 2010, but can be distinguished from these, and from each other, by the morphology of the carapace, pereopods, male thoracic sternum, pleon, and gonopods.
- Subjects
NEGROS Island (Philippines); FRESHWATER crabs; SUNDATHELPHUSIDAE; MOUNTAIN ecology; CRAB anatomy
- Publication
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2015, Vol 63, p226
- ISSN
0217-2445
- Publication type
Article