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On a new species of Paragoneplax Castro (Crustacea: Decapoda: Goneplacidae), P. chenae sp. nov. from the South China Sea

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A new species of goneplacid crab, Paragoneplax chenae, is described, based on collections from the Nansha Islands, South China Sea. P. chenae closely resembles its only congener P. serenei (Zarenkov, 1972) in general appearance. They are distinguishable from each other by the male abdominal and gonopodal characters.

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  1. Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Wei Jiang  (蒋维) & Ruiyu Liu  (刘瑞玉)

  2. Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, China

    Wei Jiang  (蒋维)

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Supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No. 2006FY110500)

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Jiang, W., Liu, R. On a new species of Paragoneplax Castro (Crustacea: Decapoda: Goneplacidae), P. chenae sp. nov. from the South China Sea. Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 29, 213–216 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-011-9072-3

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