A New Species of Upogebia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Upogebiidae) from Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands

Tomoyuki Komai

doi:10.12782/specdiv.10.259

Species Diversity

Online ISSN : 2189-7301
Print ISSN : 1342-1670

A New Species of Upogebia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Upogebiidae) from Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands

Tomoyuki Komai

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Keywords: Crustacea, Decapoda, Upogebiidae, Upogebia, new species, Okinawa Island, Japan

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2005 Volume 10 Issue 4 Pages 259-268

DOI https://doi.org/10.12782/specdiv.10.259

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Abstract

Upogebia rupicola, a new species of upogebiid shrimp from Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, lives in burrows made in siltstone substrates in the intertidal zone. It is similar to U. carinicauda (Stimpson, 1860), widely known from the Indo-West Pacific, but is distinguished from the latter by the structure and armament of the first pereopod and the armament of the lateral ridge of the anterior carapace.

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