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First record of the commensal porcelain crab, Neopetrolisthes spinatus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae), from India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2015

S. Kumaralingam ,
C. Raghunathan  and
K. Venkataraman
S. Kumaralingam*
Affiliation:
Zoological Survey of India, Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre, National Coral Reef, Research Institute, Port Blair – 744 102, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
C. Raghunathan
Affiliation:
Zoological Survey of India, Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre, National Coral Reef, Research Institute, Port Blair – 744 102, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
K. Venkataraman
Affiliation:
Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700053, India
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: S. Kumaralingam, Research Associate, Zoological Survey of India, Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre, Haddo, Port Blair – 744 102, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India email: marinekumar@gmail.com
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Abstract

The porcellanid crab, Neopetrolisthes spinatus Osawa & Fujita, 2001, is reported from Rutland Island, south Andaman Islands. The specimen represents the first record of the poorly known species from Indian waters and was collected from a large sea anemone Heteractis crispa (Hemprich & Ehrenberg in Ehrenberg, 1834).

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Neopetrolisthes spinatusPorcellanidaesea anemoneAndaman and Nicobar Islandsnew recordIndia

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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 8 , 2015 , e90
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015 

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