Vellumnus Ng, 2010

Ng, Peter K. L., Prema, Mani & Ravichandran, Samuthirapandian, 2024, Descriptions of new and rare crabs associated with coral rubble and sponges from Kanyakumari, southeastern Arabian Sea, southern India (Decapoda: Brachyura: Epialtidae and Pilumnidae), Zootaxa 5476 (1), pp. 325-341 : 334

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5476.1.26
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:84C66278-7194-4F3E-8145-3918E1659289
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12681404
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scientific name	Vellumnus Ng, 2010
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Genus Vellumnus Ng, 2010 View in CoL

Type species. Pilumnus labyrinthicus Miers, 1884 View in CoL , by original designation.

Remarks. Vellumnus currently has six species: V. labyrinthicus ( Miers, 1884) ; V. minabensis (Sakai T, 1969) ; V. penicillatus ( Gordon, 1930) , V. pictus Fahimi & Naderloo, 2023 ; V. pygmaeus ( Takeda, 1977) ; and V. tki Ng & Clark 2023 . One species, Pilumnus vermiculatus A. Milne-Edwards, 1873 , originally referred to the genus by Ng (2010) (see also Ng et al. 2008) has recently been transferred to Lophoplax Stimpson, 1858 ( Ng & Rahayu 2023).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Decapoda
Family	Pilumnidae

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