Parathelphusa valida Ng & Goh, 1987

Ng, Peter K. L., , Martyn E. Y. Low, Clark, & Paul F., 2022, Historical notes on various collectors of unidentified freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Malay Peninsula and Borneo, with descriptions of two new species of Isolapotamon Bott, 1968 Potamidae), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 70, pp. 550-571 : 564

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.26107/RBZ-2022-0031
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scientific name	Parathelphusa valida Ng & Goh, 1987
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Parathelphusa valida Ng & Goh, 1987 View in CoL

Parathelphusa valida Ng & Goh, 1987: 317 View in CoL , fig. 1, pls. 1, 2.

Material examined. North Borneo. 1 female ( NHM 1897.6.28.4), Sandakan, coll. D. Cator ; 1 male ( NHM 1893.3.26.21), Marabah, Kinabatangan area , coll. A. Everett, December 1892 .

Remarks. Parathelphusa valida , while superficially similar to P. pulcherrima , can be distinguished, when viewed frontally, by its more inflated and convex carapace and the more slender and sharply tapered G1 terminal segment which has a small opening at the tip (vs. G1 opening dilated and open in P. pulcherrima ; Ng & Goh, 1987: 317). In addition, P. valida occurs in what is today eastern Sabah where the present collecting localities are located. The type locality of P. pulcherrima is along the Sarawak-Brunei border some 450 km to the west.