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Thalamita admete

Description

Thalamita admete (Herbst, 1803)

Material examined. 1 female (15.0 x 10.7 mm) (DABFUK), Kavaratti, 18 January 2015. This species was also observed from Minicoy (R. Ravinesh) but specimens not collected.

Remarks. Thalamita admete was also observed from Minicoy but specimens were not collected. This is a widespread species in the Indo-West Pacific (Wee & Ng 1995; Apel & Spiridinov 1998); and it has previously been recorded from Lakshadweep by Thomas (1969), Rao et al. (1989), and Venkataraman et al. (2004).

Notes

Published as part of Devi, S. Suvarna, Mendoza, Jose C. E., Ravinesh, R., Idress Babu, K. K., Kumar, A. Biju & Ng, Peter K. L., 2019, On a collection of brachyuran crabs from Lakshadweep, Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 477-501 in Zootaxa 4613 (3) on page 484, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4613.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3239869

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
DABFUK
Event date
2015-01-18
Verbatim event date
2015-01-18
Scientific name authorship
Herbst
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Portunidae
Genus
Thalamita
Species
admete
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Thalamita admete (Herbst, 1803) sec. Devi, Mendoza, Ravinesh, Babu, Kumar & Ng, 2019

References

  • Wee, D. P. C. & Ng, P. K. L. (1995) Swimming crabs of the genera Charybdis De Haan, 1833, and Thalamita Latreille, 1829 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae) from Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 1 (Supplement), 1 - 128.
  • Thomas, M. M. (1969) Catalogue of crabs and hermit-crabs in the reference collections of the central marine fisheries research institute. Bulletin of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, 7, 41 - 50.
  • Rao, G. S., Suseelan, C. & Kathirvel, M. (1989) Crustacean resources of the Lakshadweep Islands Islands. In: Suseelan, C. (Ed.), Marine living resources of the Union Territory of Lakshadweep Islands: An Indicative Survey with Suggestions for Development. Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Cochin, pp. 72 - 76.
  • Venkataraman, K., Jeyabaskaran, R., Raghuram, K. P. & Alfred, J. R. B. (2004) Bibliography and checklist of corals and coral reef associated organisms of India. Records of Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 226, 1 - 468.