Coleusia janani, Giraldes, Bruno Welter, Al-Maslamani, Ibrahim & Smyth, David, 2017

Giraldes, Bruno Welter, Al-Maslamani, Ibrahim & Smyth, David, 2017, A new species of leucosiid crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Leucosiidae) from the Arabian Gulf, Zootaxa 4250 (4), pp. 389-395 : 393-394

Distribution of Coleusia Galil 2006

The current distribution of all species of the genus Coleusia (based in Galil 2006; Ng et al. 2014; Promdam et al. 2014) is illustrated in Figure 3 and can be summarised as follows:

C. biannulata — northwestern Indian Ocean : Red Sea, Arabian Sea (Karachi), Persian Gulf?, India / Sri Lanka (Bombay, Palk Straits).

C. huilianae — northeastern Indian Ocean: India (Tamil Nadu and Andaman Is.), Gulf of Thailand , Andaman Sea , Singapore.

C. janani n. sp. —West Arabian Gulf: Qatar.

C. magna — southwestern Pacific Ocean : Australia (NW coast and Queensland).

C. rangita — western Indian Ocean : Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa (Natal).

C. signata — western Indian Ocean and East Mediterranean: Red Sea ( Egypt, Somalia), Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar, Comoro Is ; Turkey, Lebanon, Israel (entering Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal).

C. urania — southwestern Pacific Ocean : China and Taiwan.

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FIGURE 3. Geographical distribution of the species of Coleusia Galil, 2006.