NEW RECORDS FOR PORCELLANID CRABS (CRUSTACEA: DECAPODA: ANOMURA: PORCELLANIDAE) IN THE WEST INDIAN ISLANDS, WITH DIAGNOSTIC CHARACTERS AND ECOLOGICAL NOTES

Leucosiid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Taiwan, with three new records.

Four leucosiid species from Taiwan are presented. Ebalia nudipes Sakai, 1963, with its male first gonopod figured for the first time. Galilia petricola Komai & Tsuchida, 2014, is recorded on the basis of a larger specimen, and distinguishing features with its only congener, G. narusei Ng & Richer de Forges, 2007, reappraised. Nursia rhomboidalis (Miers, 1879), previously known only from Japan, ...

Short Communication:A subtidal porcellanid crab, Petrolisthes militaris (Heller, 1862) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), from the Persian Gulf, Iran

A new classification of the Chirostyloidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)

The high level classification of the Chirostyloidea Ortmann, 1892, is reviewed. Eumunididae Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1900, is resurrected for two genera formerly placed in the Chirostylidae Ortmann, 1892, Eumunida Smith, 1883, and Pseudomunida Haig, 1979, based on shared characteristics such as the dorsal carapace striation, presence of supraocular spines of the rostrum, dentition of the mandib...

a subtidal porcellanid crab, petrolisthes militaris (heller, 1862) (crustacea: decapoda: anomura), from the persian gulf, iran

the family porcellanidae is a group of crab-shaped anomurans and there are a series of studies on this group in the persian gulf. the first report of porcellanid crabs from the persian gulf was by heller (1861); who referred incidentally to two species of this group in a discussion of crustacea of the red sea.

Short Communication:A subtidal porcellanid crab, Petrolisthes militaris (Heller, 1862) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), from the Persian Gulf, Iran