Zoological Studies

Vol. 40 No. 3, 2001

A New Species of Mud-shrimp of the Genus Upogebia Leach, 1814 from Taiwan (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Upogebiidae)

Feng-Jiau Lin1 , Nguyen Ngoc-Ho2 and Tin-Yam Chan3,*

1Graduate School of Fisheries Science, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan 202
2Laboratoire de Zoologie (Arthropodes), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 61 rue de Buffon, F-75231 Paris cedex 05, France
3Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan 202

Feng-Jiau Lin, Nguyen Ngoc-Ho and Tin-Yam Chan (2001) An Upogebia specimen collected from deep water off southern Taiwan is described as a new species, Upogebia edentata sp. nov.. The new species closely resembles U. fallax de Man, 1905; U. contigua Bozic and de Saint Laurent, 1972; and U. gracilis Ngoc-Ho, 1990, in its long rostrum and the shape of the 6th abdominal somite. However, it differs from these species by having both the rostrum and the lateral ridges of the carapace unarmed. Color figures of the new species are presented.

Key words: Taxonomy, Upogebia, New Taxon, Taiwan, Marine.

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