Michaelcallianassa Sakai, 2002

Liu, Wenliang & Liu, Ruiyu, 2009, Michaelcallianassa sinica sp. nov. (Crusacea, Decapoda, Thalassinidea, Callianassidae) from the South China Sea, Zootaxa 2294, pp. 39-46 : 40

Genus Michaelcallianassa Sakai, 2002

Michaelcallianasssa Sakai, 2002: 480–481. — Sakai, 2005: 156–157.

Remarks. Sakai (2002) diagnosed the genus and described the type species, M. indica , in detail. Later, he ( Sakai, 2005) rediagnosed the genus and added more information and figures of M. indica . His description of the male pleopods 1 and 2 ( Sakai, 2002: 485) could equally apply to those of the new species described below and gave us confidence in its generic placement. Sakai’s (2002) figures 14E and 14F are mislabelled (reversed) and his 2005 generic rediagnosis and species redescription of female pleopods are contradictory.