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Cyclax suborbicularis

Description

Cyclax suborbicularis (Stimpson, 1858)

Material examined. 2 males (11.0 x 10.9 mm, 26.4 x 24.2 mm) (DABFUK), Kavaratti, 30 December 2014; 1 female (30.2 x 29.4 mm) (DABFUK), Amini, 26 May 2014; 1 ovigerous female (27.2 x 24.6 mm) (DABFUK), Kavaratti, 25 May 2014

Remarks. The species has been recorded from Tamil Nadu (Alcock 1895; Jeyabaskaran et al. 2000), the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Alcock 1895; Dev Roy 2008), and from Lakshadweep (Suvarna Devi et al. 2014). This species was observed at Kadamat but specimens were not collected.

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 483, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4613.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3239869

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
DABFUK
Event date
2014-05-25 , 2014-05-26 , 2014-12-30
Verbatim event date
2014-05-25 , 2014-05-26 , 2014-12-30
Scientific name authorship
Stimpson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Decapoda
Family
Majidae
Genus
Cyclax
Species
suborbicularis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cyclax suborbicularis (Stimpson, 1858) sec. Devi, Mendoza, Ravinesh, Babu, Kumar & Ng, 2019

References

  • Jeyabaskaran, R., Khan, A. S. & Ramaiyan, V. (2000) Biodiversity project on Gulf of Mannar biosphere reserve. Parangipettai, India. Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, 177 pp.
  • Dev Roy, M. K. (2008) An annotated checklist of mangrove and coral reef inhabiting brachyuran crabs of India. Records of Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper, 289, 1 - 212.
  • Suvarna Devi, S., Biju Kumar, A. & Ravinesh R. (2014) Diversity of brachyuran crabs of Kavaratti Island, Lakshadweep, with notes on two new reports. Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, 2, 792 - 794.