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- Title
Taxonomy of the two nominal species of the deep-sea clawed lobsters Nephropsis serrata Macpherson, 1993 and N. hamadai Watabe & Ikeda, 1994 (Decapoda: Astacidea: Nephropidae).
- Authors
Chan, Tin-Yam; Wakabayashi, Kaori; Chen, Chien-Lin; Kato, Mikio; Chang, Su-Ching
- Abstract
The deep-sea clawed lobster Nephropsis hamadai Watabe & Ikeda, 1994 , described from Japan, has been suspected to be a synonym of Nephropsis serrata Macpherson, 1993 , recorded from Australia (type locality) to Taiwan. The availability of recently collected material from Japan referred to N. hamadai allowed detailed morphological and molecular comparisons of topotypic specimens of N. serrata and N. hamadai. Re-examination of the holotype of N. serrata revealed that the major difference proposed for separating N. hamadai from N. serrata was based on an error in the original description of the latter species. As there are very low genetic divergences and no morphological differences between the Australian and Japanese materials referable to N. serrata and N. hamadai , these two names are now confirmed to be synonyms.
- Subjects
JAPAN; DECAPODA; TAXONOMY; SPECIES; SYNONYMS; CRUSTACEA; DEEP-sea fishes; LOBSTERS
- Publication
Journal of Crustacean Biology, 2024, Vol 44, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0278-0372
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jcbiol/ruae028