Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology
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Some Subtidal Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Suruga Bay, Pacific Coast of Central Japan
Masatsune Takeda Hitoshi Takakura
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2025 Volume 51 Issue 1 Pages 7-23

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Of 14 crab species recently collected from shallow water of Suruga Bay, Pacific coast of central Japan, the following 7 species are studied in detail: Leucosia rubripalma Galil, 2003 (Leucosiidae), Thranita cerasma (Wee and Ng, 1995) and Trionectes mariei (Guinot, 1957) (Portunidae), Pilodius miersi (Ward, 1936) (Xanthidae), Actumnus elegans (De Man, 1887) and Zehntneriana amakusae (Takeda and Miyake, 1969) (Pilumnidae), and Notonyx sagittifer Ng and Clark, 2010 (Goneplacidae). Of these 7 species, N. sagittifer is new to Japanese waters, and the remaining 5 species other than L. rubripalma which has been reported from Suruga Bay as L. perlata De Haan, 1841, are new to Suruga Bay.

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