On a new species of freshwater crab, Indochinamon khinpyae, from northern Myanmar (Crustacea, Brachyura, Potamidae)

By

Ng, Peter K. L.
Mar, Win

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

811

Pages

47-63

Subjects

Burma , Description , freshwater crab , Indochinamon , new species , Potaminae , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.811.29187

 

Abstract

A new species of freshwater crab of the genusIndochinamonYeo & Ng, 2007 (family Potamidae), is described from highlands north of Myitkyina in Kachin State, Myanmar.Indochinamonkhinpyaesp. n.is distinguished from congeners by its very rugose carapace, broad male pleon and distinctively structured male first gonopod; and is the first potamid species recorded from northern Myanmar.