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The deep water box crab Calappa karenae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura): a new record from Melanesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2013

Bella S. Galil
Bella S. Galil*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanography & Limnological Research, POB 8030, Haifa 31080, Israel
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: B.S. Galil, National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanography & Limnological Research, POB 8030, Haifa 31080, Israel email: bella@ocean.org.il
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Abstract

Calappa karenae, is here documented from Loyalty Islands, Melanesia, based on a specimen collected in September 2011. This rare deep water box crab was previously known only from a pair of specimens collected in off Guam, Micronesia, a distance of 4000 km away.

Keywords

Calappa karenaeCalappidaeMicronesiaMelanesiaPétrie ReefLoyalty IslandsNew Caledonia
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Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 6 , 2013 , e76
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2013 

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