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Coleusia Galil 2006, n. sp.

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Distribution of Coleusia Galil 2006

The current distribution of all species of the genus Coleusia (based in Galil 2006; Ng et al. 2014; Promdam et al. 2014) is illustrated in Figure 3 and can be summarised as follows:

C. biannulata — northwestern Indian Ocean: Red Sea, Arabian Sea (Karachi), Persian Gulf?, India / Sri Lanka (Bombay, Palk Straits).

C. huilianae — northeastern Indian Ocean: India (Tamil Nadu and Andaman Is.), Gulf of Thailand, Andaman Sea, Singapore.

C. janani n. sp. —West Arabian Gulf: Qatar.

C. magna — southwestern Pacific Ocean: Australia (NW coast and Queensland).

C. rangita — western Indian Ocean: Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa (Natal).

C. signata — western Indian Ocean and East Mediterranean: Red Sea (Egypt, Somalia), Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar, Comoro Is; Turkey, Lebanon, Israel (entering Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal).

C. urania — southwestern Pacific Ocean: China and Taiwan.

Notes

Published as part of Giraldes, Bruno Welter, Al-Maslamani, Ibrahim & Smyth, David, 2017, A new species of leucosiid crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae) from the Arabian Gulf, pp. 389-395 in Zootaxa 4250 (4) on pages 393-394, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4250.4.9, http://zenodo.org/record/495328

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References

  • Galil, B. S. (2006) Contributions to the knowledge of Leucosiidae V. Coleusia gen. nov. (Crustacea: Brachyura). Zoologische Mededelingen, 4, 55 - 69.
  • Promdam, R., Nabhitabhata, J. & Galil, B. S. (2014) A new species of Coleusia Galil, 2006 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae) from southern Asia. Zootaxa, 3786 (2), 135 - 140.