A new species of the genus Nihonotrypaea Manning & Tamaki, 1998 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Axiidea, Callianassidae) from the South China Sea

Wenliang Liu; Ruiyu Liu

doi:10.3897/zookeys.457.8198

A new species of the genus Nihonotrypaea Manning & Tamaki, 1998 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Axiidea, Callianassidae) from the South China Sea

Zookeys. 2014 Nov 25:(457):35-44. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.457.8198. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Wenliang Liu¹, Ruiyu Liu²

Affiliations

¹ Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
² Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China (Deceased 16 July 2012).

Abstract

A new species of the genus Nihonotrypaea Manning & Tamaki, 1998, Nihonotrypaeahainanensis sp. n., collected from the South China Sea, is described and illustrated. It is distinguishable from Nihonotrypaeaharmandi (Bouvier, 1901), Nihonotrypaeajaponica (Ortmann, 1891), Nihonotrypaeathermophila Lin, Komai & Chan, 2007 and Nihonotrypaeamakarovi Martin, 2013 by having the elongated carpus of the male and female major cheliped. The new species is distinguishable from Nihonotrypaeapetalura (Stimpson, 1860) by the proximolower margin of the carpus of the male major cheliped bearing several small denticles.

Keywords: Callianassidae; Nihonotrypaea; South China Sea; new species.