Elamena vesca Ng & Richer de Forges, 1996

D., Guinot & de, Mazancourt V., 2020, A new freshwater crab of the family Hymenosomatidae MacLeay, 1838 from New Caledonia (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) and an updated review of the hymenosomatid fauna of New Caledonia, European Journal of Taxonomy 671 (671), pp. 1-29 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.671
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9EF19154-D2FE-4009-985C-1EB62CC9ACB0
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7433882
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scientific name	Elamena vesca Ng & Richer de Forges, 1996
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Elamena vesca Ng & Richer de Forges, 1996 View in CoL

Elamene [sic] truncata A. Milne-Edwards, 1873: 323 View in CoL (junior homonym of Trigonoplax truncata Stimpson, 1858 ).

Elamena vesca Ng & Richer de Forges, 1996: 273 View in CoL , fig. 8.

Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1873) established Elamene [sic] truncata without giving figures and probably not aware of the existence of the Trigonoplax truncata of Stimpson (1858) from Japan. According to Kemp (1917), these similar specific names are due to coincidence. The two species are in fact different, and a new name, E. vesca , was created by Ng & Richer de Forges (1996) using fresh specimens from New Caledonia as holotype and paratypes. The species is cryptic, intertidal on rocky shores, in shallow waters (about 0.5 m).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
InfraOrder	Brachyura
SuperFamily	Hymenosomatoidea
Family	Hymenosomatidae
SubFamily	Odiomarinae
Genus	Elamena