Revision of the spider crab genus Maja Lamarck, 1801 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majoidea: Majidae), with descriptions of seven new genera and 17 new species from the Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific

• Main Authors: Ng, Peter K. L., Forges, Bertrand Richer De
• Format: Text
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• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Decapoda; Majidae; Canada; Pacific; Indian; New Zealand; Lamarck; Dumont d'Urville; Dumont-d'Urville; Sullivan; Miers; Alcock; Alvarez; Bray; Griffith; Detroit; Conseil; Belcher; Noire; Lowry; Reimer; Fang; Gomez; Astrolabe; Carmona; Kristensen; Hernandez; Bertrand; Macpherson; Jacquinot; Suarez; Longhurst; Bouvier; Meland; Friederichsen; Jaume; Krabben; Rago; Linnes; antartic*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5384589; https://zenodo.org/record/5384589

Ng, Peter K. L., Forges, Bertrand Richer De (2015): Revision of the spider crab genus Maja Lamarck, 1801 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majoidea: Majidae), with descriptions of seven new genera and 17 new species from the Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 63: 110-225, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5384590 : {"references": ["Abello P, Guerao G, Salmeron F & Rago JEC (2014) Maja brachydactyla (Brachyura: Majidae) in the western Mediterranean. Marine Biodiversity Records, 7: e77. doi: 10.1017/S17.", "Adams A & White A (1848-1849) Crustacea. In: Adams A (ed.) The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., F.R.A.S., F.G.S. during the years 1843-1846. Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, London, i-viii [= Front Matter and Preface by Adams, A.] + i-xv [= Introduction by Adams, A. and References to Plates] + 1-66 pp., pls. I-VI.", "Alcock A (1895) Materials for a carcinological fauna of India, 1. The Brachyura Oxyrhyncha. 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