The Red Sea species of Cymo de Haan, 1833 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Xanthidae), associates of scleractinian corals
Author
Brösing, Andreas
Author
Al-Aidaroos, Ali M.
Author
Türkay, Michael
text
Zootaxa
2014
3779
2
195
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journal article
46223
10.11646/zootaxa.3779.2.5
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1175-5326
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Key to Red Sea species of
Cymo
1. Frontal margin lined with coarse, blunt granules of irregular sizes; dorsal surface of carapace, cheliped carpus and palm with similarly shaped granules usually in clusters; front appears quadrilobed (
Fig.14
D).....................
C. quadrilobatus
- Frontal margin and chelipeds with pointed spines, front bilobed................................................. 2
2. Carapace of nearly circular shape, frontal margin with bifurcated spines, fingers of cheliped of white or black colour...... 3
- Carapace slightly longer than wide, frontal margin with relatively longer frontal spines than in the other three species (
Fig. 14
B); fingers of chelipeds of gray or pale colour..................................................
C. deplanatus
3. Frontal margin with two bifurcated spines on each lobe (
Fig. 14
A), entire chelipeds.....................
C. andreossyi
- Frontal margin with one bifurcated spine on each lobe (
Fig.14
C), fingers of larger cheliped black but distally white, black col- ouration on pollex extending onto male palm.................................................
C. melanodactylus