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On a new genus of riverine crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from northwestern Thailand, with descriptions of two new species

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A new genus, Tomaculamon, is set up for two newspecies of potamid river crabs. Tomaculamonstenixys, new species, and T. pygmaeus, newspecies, are both from northwestern Thailand. The newgenus is closest to Potamon Savigny, 1816, butis immediately distinguished by distinct gonopodalcharacters.

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    Darren C. J. Yeo & Peter K. L. Ng

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Yeo, D.C.J., Ng, P.K.L. On a new genus of riverine crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from northwestern Thailand, with descriptions of two new species. Hydrobiologia 350, 179–188 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003093015436

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