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A New Fiddler Crab of Austruca Bott, 1973, Closely Related to A. perplexa (H. Milne Edwards, 1852) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae), from the South Pacific Islands

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  • 1. Department of Life Science and Research Center for Global Change Biology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan. *Correspondence: E-mail: htshih@dragon.nchu.edu.tw (Shih)
  • 2. Ecole Navale, CC 600, 29240 Brest Cedex 9, France. E-mail: joseph.poupin@ecole-navale.fr (Poupin)

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Shih, Hsi-Te, Poupin, Joseph (2020): A New Fiddler Crab of Austruca Bott, 1973, Closely Related to A. perplexa (H. Milne Edwards, 1852) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae), from the South Pacific Islands. Zoological Studies 59 (26): 1-28, DOI: 10.6620/ZS.2020.59-26, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8069123

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