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Notonyx gigacarcinus Clark & Ng 2006

Creators

  • 1. Biological Sciences Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA 91768 - 4032 (USA) pcastro @ csupomona. edu

Description

Notonyx gigacarcinus Clark & Ng, 2006

Notonyx gigacarcinus Clark & Ng, 2006: 544, figs 4, 5, 6B, 7 [colour] [Thailand].

TYPE MATERIAL. — P. Clark & P. K. L. Ng coll., ♂ holotype, cl 12.1 mm, cw 8.7 mm; ♀ paratype cl 13.7 mm, cw 8.9 mm (ZRC 2000.0981).

TYPE LOCALITY. — Thailand, Andaman Sea coast, Phuket I.

DISTRIBUTION. — Known only from the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand.

REMARKS

Notonyx gigacarcinus has so far only been collected living deep in coral rubble.

Notes

Published as part of Castro, Peter, 2007, A reappraisal of the family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) and revision of the subfamily Goneplacinae, with the description of 10 new genera and 18 new species, pp. 609-774 in Zoosystema 29 (4) on page 755, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4525564

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZRC
Family
Goneplacidae
Genus
Notonyx
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
ZRC 2000.0981
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Clark & Ng
Species
gigacarcinus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Notonyx gigacarcinus Clark, 2006 sec. Castro, 2007

References

  • CLARK P. F. & NG P. K. L. 2006. - A new species of Notonyx A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 (Crustacea, Barchyura, Goneplacidae) from the intertidal zone of Phuket, Thailand. Zoosystema 28 (2): 539 - 551.