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Figs 5, 7
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<taxonomicName id="0FD00DE9A79AD6B872DC76FAF2081D09" class="Malacostraca" family="Euryplacidae" genus="Goneplax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Goneplax maldivensis" order="Decapoda" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="maldivensis">Goneplax maldivensis</taxonomicName>
Rathbun, 1902: 124, figs 3-5;
<bibRefCitation id="2AC150DAF1D071EFA0282D982FC15ADF" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Guinot 1969</bibRefCitation>
: 518;
<bibRefCitation id="53CC8AEB2783B6F031EF2B8E8E5538C1" author="Castro, P" journalOrPublisher="Zoosystema" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" pagination="609 - 773" title="A reappraisal of the family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) and revision of the subfamily Goneplacinae, with the description of ten new genera and eighteen new species." volume="29" year="2007">Castro 2007</bibRefCitation>
: 686, 687 [list].
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&quot;?[
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]
<taxonomicName id="13643962AA85E02FA5A29EF3F5C86518" family="Euryplacidae" genus="Pilumnoidea" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pilumnoidea maldivensis" order="Decapoda" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" rank="species" species="maldivensis">maldivensis</taxonomicName>
&quot;:
<bibRefCitation id="489C27E41EE7003ADD083B894781A514" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Guinot 1971</bibRefCitation>
: 1081 [list].
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<taxonomicName id="52DB28FAC0514997654CFEF663236AE5" class="Malacostraca" family="Euryplacidae" genus="Otmaroplax" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Otmaroplax maldivensis" order="Decapoda" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="maldivensis">Otmaroplax maldivensis</taxonomicName>
:
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2005: 134 [genus name nomen nudum]
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&quot;
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&quot;
<taxonomicName id="1EB23EFC0F3837E40956621038075D02" family="Euryplacidae" genus="Pilumnoidea" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pilumnoidea maldivensis" order="Decapoda" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" rank="species" species="maldivensis">maldivensis</taxonomicName>
:
<bibRefCitation id="F076ED32113959B043909AE84AF118D9" author="Ng, PKL" journalOrPublisher="Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" pagination="1 - 286" title="Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world." volume="17" year="2008">Ng et al. 2008</bibRefCitation>
: 78, 79 [in list].
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<taxonomicName id="0717C26A6B9153AD2DE1064409A9A630" class="Malacostraca" family="Euryplacidae" genus="Henicoplax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Henicoplax maldivensis" order="Decapoda" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="maldivensis">Henicoplax maldivensis</taxonomicName>
:
<bibRefCitation id="94E75D196B7CFA92FBEEDA464BFA757A" author="Castro, P" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" pagination="1 - 130" title="Revision of the family Euryplacidae Stimpson, 1871 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea)." url="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2375.1.1" volume="2375" year="2010">Castro and Ng 2010</bibRefCitation>
: 61, figs 22
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, 24
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.
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<paragraph id="6177F75076EEBD45342A5E801C0F812C" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Material examined.</paragraph>
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1 male (9.9
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6.3 mm),
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,
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, 100 m.
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<paragraph id="49656C0CCD4893FCD3546C06689AC15D" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Remarks.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="12B1FE26CA2CFD2AD6D7E5C0166C063D" class="Malacostraca" family="Euryplacidae" genus="Henicoplax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Henicoplax" order="Decapoda" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Henicoplax</taxonomicName>
Castro &amp; Ng, 2010, was established for Indo-West Pacific species that had been previously classified in
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Leach, 1814, or
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, 1858. Five species are currently recognised:
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Castro &amp; Ng, 2010,
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(Rathbun, 1902) [type species],
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(Miers, 1879a),
<taxonomicName id="277AAA1B5B128252E2AB80BAA13A075C" lsidName="H. pilimeles" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" rank="species" species="pilimeles">H. pilimeles</taxonomicName>
Castro &amp; Ng, 2010, and
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Castro &amp; Ng, 2010.
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present specimen is clearly
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as redescribed and figured at length by
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: 61). The species was previously known only from the holotype male (7.4
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4.8 mm) obtained from Gan Island in Addu Atoll in the Maldives. The present male differs from the type male in having the frontal margin slightly more sinuous and the cleft between the external orbital tooth and the anterolateral tooth is more U-shaped (Fig. 5A, B) (versus frontal margin almost straight and the lateral carapace cleft being V-shaped in the holotype; cf.
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: fig. 22A); and while the G1 shape is similar, the distal spination is relatively less pronounced and the tip is sharply tapering (Fig. 7F, G) (versus distal half with relatively more spines and the tip is subtruncate in the holotype; cf.
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: fig. 24D, E). The differences are not substantial and can easily be explained by variation and size, the present male (9.9
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4.8 mm).
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Figure 5.
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(Rathbun, 1902), male (9.9
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6.3 mm), India. A overall dorsal habitus B dorsal view of carapace C frontal view of cephalothorax D left third maxilliped E anterior thoracic sternum and pleon F thoracic sternum and pleon G posterior thoracic sternum and pleon H outer view of chelae.
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showed that records of &quot;
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&quot; from the Andaman Sea should be referred to a new species,
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; and indicated that true
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should be restricted to East Asia. The records of &quot;
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&quot; from the Gulf of Martaban (south of Myanmar) and off Madras in India by
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: 379) are almost certainly not this species. The Myanmar material is probably
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, while that from India may be this species or even
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instead. Specimens will need to be re-examined to be certain.
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is thus far known for certain only from the Maldives (
<bibRefCitation id="710396F2F6D4E7991737E32B151DBD10" author="Rathbun, MJ" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" pagination="123 - 138" title="Crabs from the Maldive Islands." volume="39" year="1902">Rathbun 1902</bibRefCitation>
;
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) and the present specimen represents the first confirmed presence of this species in India.
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