taxonID	type	description	language	source
400D879BFF88FFA5FF28889C2E9B0F9E.taxon	description	(Fig. 1)	en	Trivedi, Krupal Patel Pooja Patel Jigneshkumar (2021): First record of Manningis arabicum (Jones and Clayton, 1983) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Camptandriidae) from India. Nauplius (e 2021017) 29: 1-5, DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e2021017, URL: https://doi.org/10.1590/2358-2936e2021017
400D879BFF88FFA5FF28889C2E9B0F9E.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Ten females (CL: 2.77 mm – 4.43 mm, CW: 4.21 mm – 7.43 mm), LFSc. ZRC – 156, Jakhau (23 ° 13 ’ 58 ” N 68 ° 36 ’ 42 ” E), Gujarat, India, mangrove muddy shore, coll. J. N. Trivedi, 7 July 2015. Diagnosis (modified from Ng et al., 2009). Carapace (Fig. 1 a) smooth, much broader than long, glabrous, dorsal surface sloping downward from posterior to anterior portion; gastric region moderately convex; anterolateral margins acute, convex, produced into 2 lobes posterior to external orbital tooth; lateral margins with 2 feeble indentations and continuing posteriorly as granulate ridges over part of the branchial region; posterior carapace margin wide, thickened, straight; front (Fig. 1 a, c) almost as wide as orbital, deflexed downward, concave and weakly bilobed from dorsal view; frontomedial margin distinctly bilobed; lateral angle of front touching inner infraorbital angle, then closing orbit; ex-orbital angle pointed, directed outward. Posteromedian tooth of epistome broadly triangular, lateral margins concave; posterior margin on either side concave. Third maxilliped (Fig. 1 f) inner margin thick; merus slightly shorter than ischium, outer distal angle slightly broad, rounded; ischium with inner distal angle slightly produced, oblique line of setae present; basal segment of palp not excavated to form spatulate structure. Chelipeds (Fig. 1 a, b) of female slender, setose, tips spatulate; fingers (Fig. 1 d) longer than palm; P 3 longest, P 5 shortest, meri of P 3 with anterior, dorsal surface granular, never spinulate or serrate; thoracic (Fig. 1 b) sternum swollen. Pleon (Fig. 1 b, e) subcircular, wider than long, visible dorsally, sutures visible, all somites free, telson triangular. Gonopore large, with outer margin almost straight, operculum small, directed forwards. Remarks. The specimens examined in the present study show close agreement with the original description given by Jones and Clayton (1983) and Ng et al. (2009). Manning (1991) while describing a new genus Nasima Manning, 1991 for Cleistostoma dotilliformis Alcock, 1900 commented that a new genus should be established for Paracleistostoma arabicum Jones and Clayton, 1983. Later, Al-Khayat and Jones (1996) established a new genus, Manningis for P. arabicum. The male and female of M. arabicum look similar in their overall morphology but show sexual dimorphism in relative cheliped size where males bear well developed and robust chelipeds and females bear slender chelipeds with a spatulate tip.	en	Trivedi, Krupal Patel Pooja Patel Jigneshkumar (2021): First record of Manningis arabicum (Jones and Clayton, 1983) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Camptandriidae) from India. Nauplius (e 2021017) 29: 1-5, DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e2021017, URL: https://doi.org/10.1590/2358-2936e2021017
