Crabs of the family Homolodromiidae, VI. Homolodromia monstrosa new species (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Western North Atlantic with a redescription of the holotype of Homolodromia paradoxa A. Milne Edwards, 1880 and comments on sexual dimorphism ...

• Main Authors: Martin, Joel W., Christiansen, Jennifer C., Trautwein, Sandra E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Bulletin of Marine Science 2001
• Subjects: North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10959138; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10959138

This record enriches the publication "Crabs of the family Homolodromiidae, VI. Homolodromia monstrosa new species (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Western North Atlantic with a redescription of the holotype of Homolodromia paradoxa A. Milne Edwards, 1880 and comments on sexual dimorphism" to improve its Data Commons accessibility. It demonstrates the generation of DataCite metadata using Data Futures annostor which improves discovery and at the same time creates a platform for further identification of taxonomic information. In addition to a preview-able PDF for the publication, individual page imagery is attached as PNG files—providing a coordinate framework for taxonomic treatment annotation using Web Annotation Data Model (WADM) via the Arcadia Fund corpus repository. ... : A new species of the crab genus Homolodromia A. Milne Edwards, H. monstrosa, is described from four specimens collected in the western Atlantic. The collection consists of two females that differ markedly from descriptions of H. paradoxa (the only other member of the genus known from the western Atlantic) and two males that differ only slightly from H. paradoxa. The holotype of Homolodromia paradoxa A. Milne Edwards, a damaged male from the Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, is redescribed. Females of the new species differ from H. paradoxa males (apparently there are no known females of H. paradoxa) in their larger size, in the density and type of setation on the carapace and legs, in having smaller eyes relative to the carapace, and in having relatively stouter appendages. Males of the new species are similar in size and general shape to females, but differ markedly from them most notably by lacking the density and type of setation seen in the females; in this regard they are similar to males of ...