Orcovita holthuisi Ng & Ng, 2009

Stasolla, Gianluca & Innocenti, Gianna, 2014, A new species of cavernicolous crab from Coron Island, Palawan, the Philippines (Decapoda: Brachyura: Varunidae), Raffles Bulletin Of Zoology 62, pp. 591-599 : 592

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13609085

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http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4B0A7B82-1507-4576-988A-7A0B3710B307

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13285388

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scientific name

Orcovita holthuisi Ng & Ng, 2009
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Orcovita holthuisi Ng & Ng, 2009 View in CoL ( Figs. 1 View Fig , 2 View Fig )

Orcovita holthuisi Ng & Ng, 2009: 1098 View in CoL , figs. 1–4.

Material examined. 3 females (12.3 × 10.0 mm; 10.9 × 9.4 mm; 10.1 × 8.7 mm) ( MZUF 3922 View Materials ), Philippines, Coron Island , Pukaway Cave, coll. R. Berti & S. Meggiorini, 15 March 1991 .

Remarks. The three females, collected from the type locality, are comparable with the specimens described by Ng & Ng (2009).

Ng NK & Ng PKL (2009) Orcovita holthuisi, a new species of anchialine crab (Brachyura, Varunidae) from Coron Island, Palawan, Philippines. Crustaceana, 82 (9): 1097 - 1108.

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Fig. 1. Orcovita holthuisi, female (12.2 × 9.99 mm) (MZUF 3922).

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Fig. 2. Orcovita holthuisi, female (10.9 × 9.38 mm) (MZUF 3922). A, carapace; B, dorsal view of the right cheliped; C, dorsal view of

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Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Varunidae

Genus

Orcovita