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Taxonomic revision of the freshwater crab genera Travancoriana Bott, 1969, and Vanni Bahir & Yeo, 2007 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gecarcinucidae), with descriptions of eight new genera and two new species from the Western Ghats, southern India
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Z, Sameer Kumar Pati (2025): Taxonomic revision of the freshwater crab genera Travancoriana Bott, 1969, and Vanni Bahir & Yeo, 2007 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gecarcinucidae), with descriptions of eight new genera and two new species from the Western Ghats, southern India. Zootaxa 5634 (1): 1-77, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5634.1.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5634.1.1
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