Seulocia rhomboidalis (De Haan, 1841)

Srivastava, O. P., 2017, Marine and estuarine crabs of Digha coast, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (1), pp. 49-72 : 56

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v117/i1/2017/117284

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scientific name

Seulocia rhomboidalis (De Haan, 1841)
status

 

13. Seulocia rhomboidalis (De Haan, 1841) View in CoL *

(Plate 1, Figure 6)

1841. Seulocia rhomboidalis, De Haan ,134, pl.33, Figure

5.

1933. Leucosia rhomboidalis : Chopra, Rec. Ind. Mus ., 35:

32.

Material examined: 1ex., Talsari, 19.xii.2014, Coll: O. P. S.(Reg.no.A-4389); 1ex., Shankarpur, 20.v.2014, Coll: O.P.S. (Reg. no. A-4378).

Diagnosis: The adult size of the crab is small; carapace convex shaped. The front is subparalel and broad. Antero lateral border of carapace is smooth its surface below the edge is granular. The inner surface of hand bears two rows of granule.

Distribution: India: Andamans and coromandal coastal belt and Odisha (Talsari) and West Bengal (Sandheads of all coastal areas of Shankarpur). Elsewhere: Japan and Lanka to Hongkong.

Remarks: This species is reported new to this area.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Leucosiidae

Genus

Seulocia

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