New records of crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the New Zealand region, including a new species of Rochinia A. Milne-Edwards, 1875 (Majidae), and a revision of the genus Dromia Weber, 1795 (Dromiidae)

• Published in: Zootaxa
• Main Author: McLAY, COLIN L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Mangolia Press 2009
• Subjects: Crustacea; Brachyura; Atelecyclidae; Calappidae; Dromiidae revision; Dynomenidae; Epialtidae; Grapsidae; Homolodromiidae; Inachidae; Inachoididae; Leucosiidae; Ocypodidae; Palicidae; Plagusiidae; Portunidae; New Zealand; Kermadec Is; Norfolk Is; Alcock; Pacific; Stephenson; Antarc*; antarcticus
• Online Access: https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.2111.1.1

Seven species and two families previously unknown from New Zealand are recorded: Dynomene pilumnoides Alcock, 1900, Metadynomene tanensis (Yokoya, 1933) (Dynomenidae new to New Zealand); Pseudopalicus undulatus Castro, 2000 (Palicidae); Mursia microspina Davie & Short, 1989 (Calappidae new to Ne...