Phalangipus indicus (Leach, 1815)

Srivastava, O. P., 2017, Marine and estuarine crabs of Digha coast, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (1), pp. 49-72 : 57

publication ID

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

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scientific name

Phalangipus indicus (Leach, 1815)
status

 

18. Phalangipus indicus (Leach, 1815) View in CoL *

1815. Egeria indica Leach, Zool. Miscell. , 2: 40, pI. 73.

1895. Egeria arachnoides Alcock, J. Asiat. Soc., Bengal , 64

(2): 223.

1973. Phalangipus indicus : Griffin, J. nat. Hist, 7: 179. figs.

2a; 4a, b; 6e; 9a.b.

Material examined: 1ex. Junput, 11, vi.2014, Coll: O.P.S. (Reg.no.A-4314).

Diagnosis: Branchial region with tubercles on the dorsal side, protogastric region usually with a pair of tubercles or spines near first mesogastric spine; suborbital lobe usually small and slender, suborbital lobe in a form of very blunt tubercle. Cheliped of male smooth except for terminal spine on merus; ischium of third maxilliped generally without lobe at base of lateral ridge; male first pleopod long, distally outwardly curved.

Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh (Visakhapatnam), Tamil Nadu (Gulf of Mannar) and West Bengal (Digha coast and Junput). Elsewhere: Malay Peninsula and Thailand.

Remarks: This species is reported new to this area.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Epialtidae

Genus

Phalangipus

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