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, has had a long and often confused history that is not restricted to the species level. Until 40 years ago, members of
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H.
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argued that their respective
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H.
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, and as such, were objective synonyms, with
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also noted that all the species that had been assigned to
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by workers up to that point should instead be referred to
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species
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H. Milne-
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, subsequent designation of
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).
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<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE2BA22FCF0FAEDFB91FAC7" author="Serene &amp; Soh" box="[813,1052,1374,1398]" firstAuthor="Serene" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" pagination="387 - 416" refId="ref76461" refString="Serene R &amp; Soh CL (1970) New IndoPacific genera allied to Sesarma Say 1877 (Brachyura, Decapoda, Crustacea). Treubia, 27: 387 - 416." type="journal article" year="1970">Serène &amp; Soh (1970)</bibRefCitation>
completely reorganised the generic and subgeneric classification of the Indo-West Pacific
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(when still considered a subfamily,
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) and established many new genera and subgenera. However, they did not change the concept of what had previously been the subgenus
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FC1EFA4DFBC0F9A7" box="[963,1101,1534,1558]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(as
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FBA6FA4DFA84F9A7" box="[1147,1289,1534,1558]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">Holometopus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FAFFFA4DFA21F9A7" box="[1314,1452,1534,1558]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has continued to include all those species with an entire lateral carapace margin (no trace of an epibranchial tooth), the dorsal margin of the cheliped palm with no (or only one oblique) pectinated ridge, and orbits that include the antennal peduncle (
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).
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FAC0F92DFA21F907" box="[1309,1452,1694,1718]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
thus remained one of the larger and better-known Indo- West Pacific sesarmid genera. In his 1968 checklist, Serène recognised 13 species (under subgenus
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FB35F94DFAF5F8A7" box="[1256,1400,1790,1814]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">Holometopus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
):
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FA4EF94DFC2CF887" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">C. boulengeri</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE2BA22FC74F8ADFBC9F887" author="Calman" box="[937,1092,1822,1846]" firstAuthor="Calman" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" pagination="62 - 65" refId="ref68102" refString="Calman WT (1920) A new crab of the genus Sesarma from Basra. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 5 (25): 62 - 65, figs. A, B." type="journal article" year="1920">Calman, 1920</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE2BA22FB8CF8ADFCE0F8E7" authority="(H. Milne Edwards, 1853)" baseAuthorityName="H. Milne Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1853" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dehaani">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FB8CF8ADFB44F887" box="[1105,1225,1822,1846]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">C. dehaani</emphasis>
(H.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE2BA22FB23F8ADFCEBF8E7" author="Milne Edwards" firstAuthor="Milne Edwards" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" pagination="163 - 228" refId="ref72839" refString="Milne Edwards H (1853) Memoires sur la famille des Ocypodiens, suite. Annales de Sciences Naturelle, Zoology, Paris, Serie 3 (Zoologie) 20: 163 - 228, pls. 6 - 11. [A continuation of H. Milne Edwards, 1852, and reprinted with it in the undated Melanges Carcinologiques pp. 129 - 196]" type="journal article" year="1853">Milne Edwards, 1853</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE2BA22FCA5F88DFAAFF8E7" authority="(A. Milne-Edwards, 1869)" baseAuthorityName="A. Milne-Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1869" box="[888,1314,1854,1878]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="elongatus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FCA5F88DFC72F8E7" box="[888,1023,1854,1878]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">C. elongatus</emphasis>
(A.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE2BA22FBF3F88DFA97F8E7" author="Milne-Edwards" box="[1070,1306,1854,1878]" firstAuthor="Milne-Edwards" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" pagination="25 - 31" refId="ref72689" refString="Milne-Edwards A (1869) Notes sur quelques nouvelles especes du genre Sesarma (Say). Nouvelle Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 5: 25 - 31." type="journal article" year="1869">Milne-Edwards, 1869</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE2BA22FAF1F88DFA26F8E7" baseAuthorityName="De Man, in Weber" baseAuthorityYear="1897" box="[1324,1451,1854,1878]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Cristarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="eulimene">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FAF1F88DFA26F8E7" box="[1324,1451,1854,1878]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">C. eulimene</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(De Man, in
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE2BA22FC65F8EDFBCAF8C7" author="Weber" box="[952,1095,1886,1910]" firstAuthor="Weber" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" pagination="156 - 180" refId="ref78562" refString="Weber M (1897) Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Fauna von Sud-Afrika. Ergebnisse einer Reise von Prof. Max Weber im Jahre 1894. 3. Die Decapoden Crustaceen des Susswassers von Sud-Afrika. (Mit Beitragen von Dr. J. C. H. de Meijere und Dr. J. G. de Man). I. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abtheilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, (Part VI) 10: 156 - 180, 1 pl." type="journal article" year="1897">Weber, 1897</bibRefCitation>
),
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE2BA22FB87F8EDFCE3F827" authority="(H. Milne Edwards, 1853)" baseAuthorityName="H. Milne Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1853" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="eydouxi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FB87F8EDFB43F8C7" box="[1114,1230,1886,1910]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">C. eydouxi</emphasis>
(H.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE2BA22FADCF8EDFCEBF827" author="Milne Edwards" firstAuthor="Milne Edwards" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" pagination="163 - 228" refId="ref72839" refString="Milne Edwards H (1853) Memoires sur la famille des Ocypodiens, suite. Annales de Sciences Naturelle, Zoology, Paris, Serie 3 (Zoologie) 20: 163 - 228, pls. 6 - 11. [A continuation of H. Milne Edwards, 1852, and reprinted with it in the undated Melanges Carcinologiques pp. 129 - 196]" type="journal article" year="1853">Milne Edwards, 1853</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE2BA22FCA0F8CDFB6BF827" authority="(Miers, 1880)" baseAuthorityName="Miers" baseAuthorityYear="1880" box="[893,1254,1918,1942]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Miersarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="granosimanum">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FCA0F8CDFBCFF827" box="[893,1090,1918,1942]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">C. granosimanum</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE2BA22FB8EF8CDFB50F827" author="Miers" box="[1107,1245,1918,1942]" firstAuthor="Miers" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" pagination="304 - 317" refId="ref72642" refString="Miers EJ (1880) On a collection of Crustacea from the Malayan Region. Part II. Telphusidea, Catometopa and Oxystomata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 5, 5 (28): 304 - 317, pl. 14." type="journal article" year="1880">Miers, 1880</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE2BA22FB29F8CDFC64F807" authority="(De Haan, 1833)" baseAuthorityName="De Haan" baseAuthorityYear="1833" class="Malacostraca" family="Grapsidae" genus="Grapsus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="haematocheir">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FB29F8CDFA26F827" box="[1268,1451,1918,1942]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">C. haematocheir</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE2BA22FCE9F82DFC6CF807" author="De Haan" box="[820,993,1950,1974]" firstAuthor="De Haan" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" pagination="1 - 55" refId="ref69759" refString="Haan W De (1833 - 1849) Crustacea. In: Siebold PF (ed.) Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, Qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 18231830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit, (Crustacea). LugduniBatavorum. Pp. ixvii + ixxxi + iixxvi + 1 - 243, pls. A - J, L - Q, 1 - 55, circ. table 2." type="book chapter" year="1833">De Haan, 1833</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE2BA22FC25F82DFA8CF807" authority="(Dana, 1851)" baseAuthorityName="Dana" baseAuthorityYear="1851" box="[1016,1281,1950,1974]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obesus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FC25F82DFBE9F807" box="[1016,1124,1950,1974]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">C. obesus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE2BA22FBA8F82DFB74F807" author="Dana" box="[1141,1273,1950,1974]" firstAuthor="Dana" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" pagination="247 - 254" refId="ref68617" refString="Dana JD (1851) Conspectus crustaceorum quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Foederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit J. D. Dana. Crustacea Grapsoidea, (Cyclometopa, Edwardsii). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 5: 247 - 254." type="journal article" year="1851">Dana, 1851</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE2BA22FACDF82DFC30F867" authority="(Dana, 1851)" baseAuthorityName="Dana" baseAuthorityYear="1851" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Danarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obtusifrons">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FACDF82DFA26F807" box="[1296,1451,1950,1974]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">C. obtusifrons</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE2BA22FCE9F80DFC38F867" author="Dana" box="[820,949,1982,2006]" firstAuthor="Dana" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" pagination="247 - 254" refId="ref68617" refString="Dana JD (1851) Conspectus crustaceorum quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Foederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit J. D. Dana. Crustacea Grapsoidea, (Cyclometopa, Edwardsii). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 5: 247 - 254." type="journal article" year="1851">Dana, 1851</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE2BA22FC17F80DFA84F867" authority="(Crosnier, 1965)" baseAuthorityName="Crosnier" baseAuthorityYear="1965" box="[970,1289,1982,2006]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Cristarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ortmanni">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FC17F80DFBC0F867" box="[970,1101,1982,2006]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">C. ortmanni</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE2BA22FB81F80DFA8FF867" author="Crosnier" box="[1116,1282,1982,2006]" firstAuthor="Crosnier" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" pagination="1 - 143" refId="ref68404" refString="Crosnier A (1965) Crustaces Decapodes, Grapsidae et Ocypodidae. Faune de Madagascar, Tananarive, 18: 1 - 143, pls. 1 - 11, textfigs. 1 - 260." type="journal article" year="1965">Crosnier, 1965</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE2BA22FACBF80DFC23F847" authority="(De Man, 1895)" baseAuthorityName="De Man" baseAuthorityYear="1895" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stormi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FACBF80DFAF6F867" box="[1302,1403,1982,2006]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">C. stormi</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE2BA22FA56F80DFC2BF847" author="De Man" firstAuthor="De Man" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" pagination="75 - 218" refId="ref72333" refString="Man JG De (1895) Bericht uber die von Herrn Schiffscaptan Storm zu Atjeh, an den westlichen Kusten von Malakka, Borneo und Celebes sowie in der JavaSee gesammelten Decapoden und Stomatopoden. Zweiter Theil. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abtheilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 9: 75 - 218." type="journal article" year="1895">De Man, 1895</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE2BA22FC66F86DFB5DF847" authority="(Rathbun, 1931)" baseAuthorityName="Rathbun" baseAuthorityYear="1931" box="[955,1232,2014,2038]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tangi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FC66F86DFB9EF847" box="[955,1043,2014,2038]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">C. tangi</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE2BA22FBF9F86DFB4AF847" author="Rathbun" box="[1060,1223,2014,2038]" firstAuthor="Rathbun" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" pagination="75 - 125" refId="ref75242" refString="Rathbun MJ (1931) New and rare Chinese crabs. Lingnan Science Journal (1929), 8: 75 - 125, pls. 5 - 15." type="journal article" year="1931">Rathbun, 1931</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE2BA22FAD0F86DFBACF7A7" authority="(A. Milne-Edwards, 1869)" baseAuthorityName="A. Milne-Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1869" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="villosus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FAD0F86DFAF2F847" box="[1293,1407,2014,2038]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">C. villosus</emphasis>
(A.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE2BA22FCF0F84DFB94F7A7" author="Milne-Edwards" box="[813,1049,2046,2070]" firstAuthor="Milne-Edwards" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" pagination="25 - 31" refId="ref72689" refString="Milne-Edwards A (1869) Notes sur quelques nouvelles especes du genre Sesarma (Say). Nouvelle Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 5: 25 - 31." type="journal article" year="1869">Milne-Edwards, 1869</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
. Subsequently,
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE2BA22FB15F84DFAB2F7A7" author="Soh" box="[1224,1343,2046,2070]" firstAuthor="Soh" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" pagination="9 - 22" refId="ref77463" refString="Soh CL (1978) On a collection of sesarmine crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsidae) from Hong Kong. Memoirs of the Hong Kong Natural History Society, 13: 9 - 22." type="journal article" year="1978">Soh (1978)</bibRefCitation>
described a new species,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE2BA22FC0EF7ADFBCCF787" box="[979,1089,2078,2102]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="3" pageNumber="894" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="serenei">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE2BA22FC0EF7ADFBCCF787" box="[979,1089,2078,2102]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="894">C. serenei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, from
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C1039A40FFE5BA25FF55FF0DFEBEFC27" blockId="4.[136,777,190,918]" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">
An appraisal of
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FEEFFF0DFE31FF67" box="[306,444,190,214]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FE3EFF0DFD1AFF67" author="Ng &amp; Liu" box="[483,663,190,214]" firstAuthor="Ng" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="228 - 237" refId="ref73911" refString="Ng PKL &amp; Liu HC (1999) The taxonomy of Sesarma tangi Rathbun, 1931 and S. stormi De Man, 1895 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae: Sesarminae), with establishment of a new genus for S. stormi. Zoological Studies, 38 (2): 228 - 237." type="journal article" year="1999">Ng &amp; Liu (1999)</bibRefCitation>
noted that two major groups could be discerned in
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FD9CFF6DFD46FF47" authorityName="Gistel" authorityYear="1848" box="[577,715,222,246]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FD9CFF6DFD46FF47" box="[577,715,222,246]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. One group had a single ridge of tubercles on the dorsal margin of the palm and differentiated granules on the dorsal margin of the dactylus. Included species were
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FDEDFE8DFD34FEE7" baseAuthorityName="A. Milne-Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1869" box="[560,697,318,342]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="elongatus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FDEDFE8DFD34FEE7" box="[560,697,318,342]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. elongatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FD2DFE8DFF54FEC7" baseAuthorityName="A. Milne-Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1869" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="villosus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FD2DFE8DFF54FEC7" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. villosus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(both with a single longitudinal pectinated ridge),
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FF55FECDFF76FE27" baseAuthorityName="H. Milne Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1853" box="[136,251,382,406]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="eydouxi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FF55FECDFF76FE27" box="[136,251,382,406]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. eydouxi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(with one longitudinal tuberculate ridge), and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FD33FECDFF65FE07" baseAuthorityName="De Man, in Weber" baseAuthorityYear="1897" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Cristarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="eulimene">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FD33FECDFF65FE07" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. eulimene</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FECAFE2DFE1BFE07" baseAuthorityName="Crosnier" baseAuthorityYear="1965" box="[279,406,414,438]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Cristarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ortmanni">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FECAFE2DFE1BFE07" box="[279,406,414,438]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. ortmanni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(both with an oblique to transverse single pectinated ridge). Members of the second group, also including
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FF2EFE6DFEC5FE47" baseAuthorityName="Rathbun" baseAuthorityYear="1931" box="[243,328,478,502]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tangi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FF2EFE6DFEC5FE47" box="[243,328,478,502]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. tangi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FEA4FE6DFE51FE47" baseAuthorityName="De Man" baseAuthorityYear="1895" box="[377,476,478,502]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stormi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FEA4FE6DFE51FE47" box="[377,476,478,502]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. stormi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, have no ridge on the dorsal margin of the palm and the dorsal margin of the dactylus has no, or only weakly differentiated, granules. These two species were discussed in detail by
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FDD0FD8DFD46FDE7" author="Ng &amp; Liu" box="[525,715,574,598]" firstAuthor="Ng" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="228 - 237" refId="ref73911" refString="Ng PKL &amp; Liu HC (1999) The taxonomy of Sesarma tangi Rathbun, 1931 and S. stormi De Man, 1895 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae: Sesarminae), with establishment of a new genus for S. stormi. Zoological Studies, 38 (2): 228 - 237." type="journal article" year="1999">Ng &amp; Liu (1999)</bibRefCitation>
, with
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FF55FDEDFF6EFDC7" baseAuthorityName="Rathbun" baseAuthorityYear="1931" box="[136,227,606,630]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tangi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FF55FDEDFF6EFDC7" box="[136,227,606,630]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. tangi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
provisionally retained in
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FDD7FDEDFD1BFDC7" box="[522,662,606,630]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, while
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FD33FDEDFF41FD27" baseAuthorityName="De Man" baseAuthorityYear="1895" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stormi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FD33FDEDFF41FD27" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. stormi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was referred to a new genus,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FDFFFDCDFF4CFD07" authority="Ng &amp; Liu, 1999" authorityName="Ng &amp; Liu" authorityYear="1999" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Stelgistra" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FDFFFDCDFD05FD27" box="[546,648,638,662]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Stelgistra</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
. Significantly,
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commented (but did not elaborate) that “
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FE4FFD0DFDB6FD67" box="[402,571,702,726]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. haematochir</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
[sic] is distinct in several features (especially in the structure of the anterior male thoracic sternum) and should be generically separated from the other species in the group”. Since
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FD88FCADFC8AFC87" baseAuthorityName="De Haan" baseAuthorityYear="1833" box="[597,775,798,822]" class="Malacostraca" family="Grapsidae" genus="Grapsus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="haematocheir">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FD88FCADFC8AFC87" box="[597,775,798,822]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. haematocheir</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is the
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species of
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FEA3FC8DFD85FCE7" box="[382,520,830,854]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, this would imply that all the other species in the genus would need to be moved to other genera.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C1039A40FFE5BA25FF55FC0DFE30FA44" blockId="4.[135,775,958,1526]" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FF55FC0DFEB5FC67" author="Ng &amp; Liu" box="[136,312,958,982]" firstAuthor="Ng" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="228 - 237" refId="ref73911" refString="Ng PKL &amp; Liu HC (1999) The taxonomy of Sesarma tangi Rathbun, 1931 and S. stormi De Man, 1895 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae: Sesarminae), with establishment of a new genus for S. stormi. Zoological Studies, 38 (2): 228 - 237." type="journal article" year="1999">Ng &amp; Liu (1999)</bibRefCitation>
referred
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FE48FC0DFDDDFC67" authorityName="A. Milne-Edwards" authorityYear="1869" box="[405,592,958,982]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="villosum">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FE48FC0DFDDDFC67" box="[405,592,958,982]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma villosum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FDB0FC0DFE01FC47" authority="A. Milne-Edwards, 1873" authorityName="A. Milne-Edwards" authorityYear="1873" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Clistocoeloma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FDB0FC0DFC8BFC67" box="[621,774,958,982]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Clistocoeloma</emphasis>
A.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FF7AFC6DFE01FC47" author="Milne-Edwards" box="[167,396,990,1014]" firstAuthor="Milne-Edwards" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="155 - 332" refId="ref72721" refString="Milne-Edwards A (1873) Recherches sur la faune carcinologique de la NouvelleCaledonie. Deuxieme Partie. Groupe des Cyclometopes Neptunens. Nouvelles Archives du Museum d'Histoire naturelle, Paris 9: 155 - 332, pls. 4 - 18." type="journal article" year="1873">Milne-Edwards, 1873</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
and suggested that
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FD8BFC6DFC8AFC47" box="[598,775,990,1014]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma obesum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
could be a species of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FEBBFC4CFC89FBA7" authority="H. Milne Edwards, 1853" authorityName="H. Milne Edwards" authorityYear="1853" box="[358,772,1022,1046]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Metasesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FEBBFC4CFE7BFBA7" box="[358,502,1023,1046]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Metasesarma</emphasis>
H.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FDC1FC4DFC89FBA7" author="Milne Edwards" box="[540,772,1022,1046]" firstAuthor="Milne Edwards" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="163 - 228" refId="ref72839" refString="Milne Edwards H (1853) Memoires sur la famille des Ocypodiens, suite. Annales de Sciences Naturelle, Zoology, Paris, Serie 3 (Zoologie) 20: 163 - 228, pls. 6 - 11. [A continuation of H. Milne Edwards, 1852, and reprinted with it in the undated Melanges Carcinologiques pp. 129 - 196]" type="journal article" year="1853">Milne Edwards, 1853</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. In a molecular study,
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FEA9FBADFD1BFB87" author="Schubart" box="[372,662,1054,1078]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Schubart" page="197" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="193 - 199" refId="ref75958" refString="Schubart CD, Cannicci S, Vannini M &amp; Fratini S (2006) Molecular phylogeny of grapsoid crabs and allies based on two mitochondrial genes and a proposal for refraining from current superfamily classification. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 44 (3): 193 - 199." type="journal article" year="2006">Schubart et al. (2006: 197)</bibRefCitation>
supported the placement of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FEE7FB8DFE78FBE7" authorityName="A. Milne-Edwards" authorityYear="1869" box="[314,501,1086,1110]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="villosum">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FEE7FB8DFE78FBE7" box="[314,501,1086,1110]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma villosum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
within
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FD9CFB8DFD57FBE7" authorityName="A. Milne-Edwards" authorityYear="1873" box="[577,730,1086,1110]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Clistocoeloma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FD9CFB8DFD57FBE7" box="[577,730,1086,1110]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Clistocoeloma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FD3BFB8DFEC4FBC7" author="Ng &amp; Schubart" firstAuthor="Ng" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="425 - 437" refId="ref74016" refString="Ng PKL &amp; Schubart CD (2003) On the identities of Sesarma obesum Dana, 1851, and Sesarma eydouxi H. Milne Edwards, 1853 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae). Zoosystema, 25 (3): 425 - 437." type="journal article" year="2003">Ng &amp; Schubart (2003)</bibRefCitation>
showed that
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FE0FFBEDFC8FFBC7" authority="Dana, 1851" authorityName="Dana" authorityYear="1851" box="[466,770,1118,1142]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obesum">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FE0FFBEDFD0EFBC7" box="[466,643,1118,1142]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma obesum</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FD55FBEDFC8FFBC7" author="Dana" box="[648,770,1118,1142]" firstAuthor="Dana" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="247 - 254" refId="ref68617" refString="Dana JD (1851) Conspectus crustaceorum quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Foederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit J. D. Dana. Crustacea Grapsoidea, (Cyclometopa, Edwardsii). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 5: 247 - 254." type="journal article" year="1851">Dana, 1851</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, is a senior subjective synonym of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FE39FBCCFEFEFB07" authority="H. Milne Edwards, 1853" authorityName="H. Milne Edwards" authorityYear="1853" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Metasesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rousseauxi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FE39FBCCFD65FB27" box="[484,744,1151,1174]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Metasesarma rousseauxi</emphasis>
H.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FF55FB2DFEFEFB07" author="Milne Edwards" box="[136,371,1182,1206]" firstAuthor="Milne Edwards" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="163 - 228" refId="ref72839" refString="Milne Edwards H (1853) Memoires sur la famille des Ocypodiens, suite. Annales de Sciences Naturelle, Zoology, Paris, Serie 3 (Zoologie) 20: 163 - 228, pls. 6 - 11. [A continuation of H. Milne Edwards, 1852, and reprinted with it in the undated Melanges Carcinologiques pp. 129 - 196]" type="journal article" year="1853">Milne Edwards, 1853</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, and designated a
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for Danas species. They also demonstrated that
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FDF4FB0DFEE0FB47" authority="H. Milne Edwards, 1853" authorityName="H. Milne Edwards" authorityYear="1853" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="eydouxi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FDF4FB0DFD6FFB67" box="[553,738,1214,1238]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma eydouxi</emphasis>
H.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FF55FB6DFEE0FB47" author="Milne Edwards" box="[136,365,1246,1270]" firstAuthor="Milne Edwards" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="163 - 228" refId="ref72839" refString="Milne Edwards H (1853) Memoires sur la famille des Ocypodiens, suite. Annales de Sciences Naturelle, Zoology, Paris, Serie 3 (Zoologie) 20: 163 - 228, pls. 6 - 11. [A continuation of H. Milne Edwards, 1852, and reprinted with it in the undated Melanges Carcinologiques pp. 129 - 196]" type="journal article" year="1853">Milne Edwards, 1853</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(type locality supposedly
<collectingCountry id="B9ABDAD0FFE5BA25FD59FB6DFD69FB47" box="[644,740,1246,1270]" name="Vietnam" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Vietnam</collectingCountry>
), is not a species of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FEE3FB4DFE4BFAA7" authorityName="Gistel" authorityYear="1848" box="[318,454,1278,1302]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FEE3FB4DFE4BFAA7" box="[318,454,1278,1302]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but a junior synonym of the American
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FF26FAADFDDFFA87" authority="Randall, 1840" authorityName="Randall" authorityYear="1840" box="[251,594,1310,1334]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rectum">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FF26FAADFE26FA87" box="[251,427,1310,1334]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma rectum</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FE68FAADFDDFFA87" author="Randall" box="[437,594,1310,1334]" firstAuthor="Randall" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="106 - 147" refId="ref74956" refString="Randall JW (1840) Catalogue of the Crustacea Brought by Thomas Nuttall and J. K. Townsend, from the West Coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands, with descriptions of such species as are apparently new, among which are included several species of different localities, previously existing in the collection of the academy. Journal of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, 8: 106 - 147, pls. 1 - 5." type="journal article" year="1840">Randall, 1840</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FD82FAADFF42FAE7" author="Schubart &amp; Ng" firstAuthor="Schubart" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="28 - 38" refId="ref76308" refString="Schubart CD &amp; Ng PKL (2002) The sesarmid genus Neosarmatium (Decapoda: Brachyura): new distribution records and a new species from Sulawesi. Crustacean Research, 31: 28 - 38." type="journal article" year="2002">Schubart &amp; Ng (2002)</bibRefCitation>
transferred
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FE85FA8DFDA9FAE7" box="[344,548,1342,1366]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Chiromantes tangi</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FDE8FA8DFD51FAE7" author="Rathbun" box="[565,732,1342,1366]" firstAuthor="Rathbun" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="75 - 125" refId="ref75242" refString="Rathbun MJ (1931) New and rare Chinese crabs. Lingnan Science Journal (1929), 8: 75 - 125, pls. 5 - 15." type="journal article" year="1931">Rathbun, 1931</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, to
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FF55FAECFD9DFAC7" authority="Serene &amp; Soh, 1970" authorityName="Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" box="[136,528,1374,1398]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Neosarmatium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FF55FAECFEA8FAC7" box="[136,293,1375,1398]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Neosarmatium</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FEF2FAEDFD9DFAC7" author="Serene &amp; Soh" box="[303,528,1374,1398]" firstAuthor="Serene" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="387 - 416" refId="ref76461" refString="Serene R &amp; Soh CL (1970) New IndoPacific genera allied to Sesarma Say 1877 (Brachyura, Decapoda, Crustacea). Treubia, 27: 387 - 416." type="journal article" year="1970">Serène &amp; Soh, 1970</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, noting that it is close to
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FF79FACCFDA9FA27" authority="(A. Milne-Edwards, 1869)" baseAuthorityName="A. Milne-Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1869" box="[164,548,1406,1430]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Neosarmatium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="laeve">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FF79FACCFF71FA27" box="[164,252,1406,1430]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">N. laeve</emphasis>
(A.
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)
</taxonomicName>
. A recent reappraisal of
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FF7AFA2DFF72FA07" box="[167,255,1438,1462]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. tangi</emphasis>
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by
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, however, showed that it is not closely related to
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FEB2FA0CFD81FA67" box="[367,524,1471,1494]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Neosarmatium</emphasis>
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, and was transferred to its own genus,
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FEF3FA6DFE3BFA44" box="[302,438,1502,1525]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sinosesarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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Some results of the present study have been foreshadowed by
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FF55F98DFE10F9E7" author="Ng" box="[136,413,1598,1622]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Ng" page="223 - 225" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="1 - 286" refId="ref73754" refString="Ng PKL, Guinot D &amp; Davie PJF (2008 a) Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 17: 1 - 286." type="journal article" year="2008" yearSuffix="a">Ng et al. (2008a: 223225)</bibRefCitation>
, notably in regard to the taxonomic complexities of
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FEE6F9EDFE20F9C7" box="[315,429,1630,1654]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Bresedium</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FE63F9EDFDC5F9C7" box="[446,584,1630,1654]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FD84F9EDFC8CF9C7" box="[601,769,1630,1654]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Pseudosesarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FF67F9CDFEBDF924" box="[186,304,1662,1685]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarmops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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listed eight species in
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FF55F92DFE9CF907" box="[136,273,1694,1718]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
:
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FEFFF92DFDD5F907" authority="Calman, 1920" authorityName="Calman" authorityYear="1920" box="[290,600,1694,1718]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="boulengeri">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FEFFF92DFE3AF907" box="[290,439,1694,1718]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. boulengeri</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FE63F92DFDD5F907" author="Calman" box="[446,600,1694,1718]" firstAuthor="Calman" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="62 - 65" refId="ref68102" refString="Calman WT (1920) A new crab of the genus Sesarma from Basra. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 5 (25): 62 - 65, figs. A, B." type="journal article" year="1920">Calman, 1920</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FDB8F92DFE08F967" authority="(H. Milne Edwards, 1853)" baseAuthorityName="H. Milne Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1853" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dehaani">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FDB8F92DFD51F907" box="[613,732,1694,1718]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. dehaani</emphasis>
(H.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FF55F90DFEF1F967" author="Milne Edwards" box="[136,380,1726,1750]" firstAuthor="Milne Edwards" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="163 - 228" refId="ref72839" refString="Milne Edwards H (1853) Memoires sur la famille des Ocypodiens, suite. Annales de Sciences Naturelle, Zoology, Paris, Serie 3 (Zoologie) 20: 163 - 228, pls. 6 - 11. [A continuation of H. Milne Edwards, 1852, and reprinted with it in the undated Melanges Carcinologiques pp. 129 - 196]" type="journal article" year="1853">Milne Edwards, 1853</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FE49F90DFD94F967" baseAuthorityName="De Man, in Weber" baseAuthorityYear="1897" box="[404,537,1726,1750]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Cristarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="eulimene">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FE49F90DFD94F967" box="[404,537,1726,1750]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. eulimene</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(De Man, in
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FD65F90DFF4EF947" author="Weber" firstAuthor="Weber" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="156 - 180" refId="ref78562" refString="Weber M (1897) Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Fauna von Sud-Afrika. Ergebnisse einer Reise von Prof. Max Weber im Jahre 1894. 3. Die Decapoden Crustaceen des Susswassers von Sud-Afrika. (Mit Beitragen von Dr. J. C. H. de Meijere und Dr. J. G. de Man). I. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abtheilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, (Part VI) 10: 156 - 180, 1 pl." type="journal article" year="1897">Weber, 1897</bibRefCitation>
),
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FF06F96DFE1BF947" box="[219,406,1758,1782]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. haematocheir</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FE75F96DFDD7F947" author="De Haan" box="[424,602,1758,1782]" firstAuthor="De Haan" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="1 - 55" refId="ref69759" refString="Haan W De (1833 - 1849) Crustacea. In: Siebold PF (ed.) Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, Qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 18231830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit, (Crustacea). LugduniBatavorum. Pp. ixvii + ixxxi + iixxvi + 1 - 243, pls. A - J, L - Q, 1 - 55, circ. table 2." type="book chapter" year="1833">De Haan, 1833</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FDAFF96DFEC5F8A7" authority="(De Man, 1887)" baseAuthorityName="De Man" baseAuthorityYear="1887" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="neglectum">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FDAFF96DFC8AF947" box="[626,775,1758,1782]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. neglectum</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FF4DF94DFECCF8A7" author="De Man" box="[144,321,1790,1814]" firstAuthor="De Man" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="639 - 722" refId="ref72089" refString="Man JG De (1887) Ubersicht der Indopacifischen Arten der Gattung Sesarma Say nebst einer Kritik der von W. Hess und E. Nauck in den Jahren 1865 und 1880 beschrieben Decapoden. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abtheilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 2: 639 - 722." type="journal article" year="1887">De Man, 1887</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FE87F94DFD24F8A7" authority="(Dana, 1851)" baseAuthorityName="Dana" baseAuthorityYear="1851" box="[346,681,1790,1814]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Danarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obtusifrons">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FE87F94DFD8DF8A7" box="[346,512,1790,1814]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. obtusifrons</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FDC9F94DFD2DF8A7" author="Dana" box="[532,672,1790,1814]" firstAuthor="Dana" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="247 - 254" refId="ref68617" refString="Dana JD (1851) Conspectus crustaceorum quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Foederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit J. D. Dana. Crustacea Grapsoidea, (Cyclometopa, Edwardsii). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 5: 247 - 254." type="journal article" year="1851">Dana, 1851</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FD33F94DFE21F887" authority="(Crosnier, 1965)" baseAuthorityName="Crosnier" baseAuthorityYear="1965" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Cristarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ortmanni">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FD33F94DFF67F887" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. ortmanni</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FF21F8ADFE2EF887" author="Crosnier" box="[252,419,1822,1846]" firstAuthor="Crosnier" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="1 - 143" refId="ref68404" refString="Crosnier A (1965) Crustaces Decapodes, Grapsidae et Ocypodidae. Faune de Madagascar, Tananarive, 18: 1 - 143, pls. 1 - 11, textfigs. 1 - 260." type="journal article" year="1965">Crosnier, 1965</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
; placing
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FDCEF8ADFC8AF887" box="[531,775,1822,1846]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma granosimana</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FF55F88DFE86F8E7" author="Miers" box="[136,267,1854,1878]" firstAuthor="Miers" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="304 - 317" refId="ref72642" refString="Miers EJ (1880) On a collection of Crustacea from the Malayan Region. Part II. Telphusidea, Catometopa and Oxystomata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 5, 5 (28): 304 - 317, pl. 14." type="journal article" year="1880">Miers, 1880</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, provisionally in
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FE1CF88DFDE5F8E7" box="[449,616,1854,1878]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Pseudosesarma</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FDB3F88DFF4DF8C7" author="Serene &amp; Soh" firstAuthor="Serene" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="387 - 416" refId="ref76461" refString="Serene R &amp; Soh CL (1970) New IndoPacific genera allied to Sesarma Say 1877 (Brachyura, Decapoda, Crustacea). Treubia, 27: 387 - 416." type="journal article" year="1970">Serène &amp; Soh, 1970</bibRefCitation>
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, but without explanation. However, they added on the observations of
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FEEBF8CDFD82F827" author="Ng" box="[310,527,1918,1942]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Ng" page="41" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="1 - 86" refId="ref74237" refString="Ng PKL, Wang C-H, Ho P-H &amp; Shih H-T (2001) An annotated checklist of brachyuran crabs from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda). National Taiwan Museum Special Publication Series, 11: 1 - 86, 8 colour pls." type="journal article" year="2001">Ng et al. (2001: 41)</bibRefCitation>
that
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FD95F8CDFC8BF827" box="[584,774,1918,1942]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma neglecta</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FF55F82DFEA8F807" author="De Man" box="[136,293,1950,1974]" firstAuthor="De Man" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="639 - 722" refId="ref72089" refString="Man JG De (1887) Ubersicht der Indopacifischen Arten der Gattung Sesarma Say nebst einer Kritik der von W. Hess und E. Nauck in den Jahren 1865 und 1880 beschrieben Decapoden. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abtheilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 2: 639 - 722." type="journal article" year="1887">De Man, 1887</bibRefCitation>
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, was a valid species allied to
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FDBEF82DFD55F807" box="[611,728,1950,1974]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. dehaani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FD3BF82DFE93F867" author="Ng" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Ng" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="1 - 286" refId="ref73754" refString="Ng PKL, Guinot D &amp; Davie PJF (2008 a) Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 17: 1 - 286." type="journal article" year="2008" yearSuffix="a">Ng et al. (2008a)</bibRefCitation>
also noted that
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FE0EF80DFD0BF867" box="[467,646,1982,2006]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma serenei</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FD4DF80DFC8EF867" author="Soh" box="[656,771,1982,2006]" firstAuthor="Soh" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="9 - 22" refId="ref77463" refString="Soh CL (1978) On a collection of sesarmine crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsidae) from Hong Kong. Memoirs of the Hong Kong Natural History Society, 13: 9 - 22." type="journal article" year="1978">Soh, 1978</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, should be considered a junior subjective synonym of
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FD33F86DFE96F7A7" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. haematocheir</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see treatment in
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).
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FD16F84DFC3FFF67" author="Ng" box="[715,946,190,2070]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Ng" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="1 - 286" refId="ref73754" refString="Ng PKL, Guinot D &amp; Davie PJF (2008 a) Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 17: 1 - 286." type="journal article" year="2008" yearSuffix="a">Ng et al. (2008a)</bibRefCitation>
commented that ongoing revisions of
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FAE6FF0DFA4FFF67" box="[1339,1474,190,214]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and related taxa, like
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FB90FF6DFB45FF44" box="[1101,1224,222,245]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarmops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FADAFF6DFA37FF47" box="[1287,1466,222,246]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Pseudosesarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, would substantially change the generic classification of the species in these genera. In fact, the only species they anticipated to remain in
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FB8CFE8DFB56FEE7" box="[1105,1243,318,342]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="E8FBFB29FFE5BA25FB39FE8DFAE1FEE7" box="[1252,1388,318,342]" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" sensu="stricto">sensu stricto</taxonomicNameLabel>
(s. str.) was
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FCABFEEDFBE2FEC7" box="[886,1135,350,374]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma haematocheir</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FBA5FEEDFAAFFEC7" author="De Haan" box="[1144,1314,350,374]" firstAuthor="De Haan" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="1 - 55" refId="ref69759" refString="Haan W De (1833 - 1849) Crustacea. In: Siebold PF (ed.) Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, Qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 18231830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit, (Crustacea). LugduniBatavorum. Pp. ixvii + ixxxi + iixxvi + 1 - 243, pls. A - J, L - Q, 1 - 55, circ. table 2." type="book chapter" year="1833">De Haan, 1833</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FAF3FEEDFC06FE27" author="Naruse &amp; Ng" firstAuthor="Naruse" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="1 - 13" refId="ref73402" refString="Naruse T &amp; Ng PKL (2008) A new species of Chiromantes s. str. (Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with a note on the identity of Holometopus serenei Soh, 1978. Crustacean Research, 37: 1 - 13." type="journal article" year="2008">Naruse &amp; Ng (2008)</bibRefCitation>
later described
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FBE6FECDFB5AFE27" box="[1083,1239,382,406]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. ryukyuanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a sister species of
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FC9EFE2DFC7BFE07" box="[835,1014,414,438]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">C. haematocheir</emphasis>
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from the Ryukyu Islands in
<collectingCountry id="B9ABDAD0FFE5BA25FAF4FE2DFAE4FE04" box="[1321,1385,414,437]" name="Japan" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Japan</collectingCountry>
. In their revision of a number of Indo-Pacific taxa with a longitudinal pectinated crest,
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FC28FE6DFB55FE47" author="Schubart" box="[1013,1240,478,502]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Schubart" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="1 - 29" part="2154" refId="ref76194" refString="Schubart CD, Liu H-C &amp; Ng PKL (2009) Revision of Selatium Serene &amp; Soh, 1970 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), with description of a new genus and two new species. Zootaxa, 2154: 1 - 29." title="Revision of Selatium Serene &amp; Soh, 1970 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), with description of a new genus and two new species" type="journal article" year="2009">Schubart et al. (2009)</bibRefCitation>
referred
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FAE5FE6DFC26FDA7" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Chiromantes elongatus</emphasis>
(A.
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)
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to
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FB2AFE4DFAD9FDA7" box="[1271,1364,510,534]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Selatium</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FA81FE4DFC3BFD87" author="Serene &amp; Soh" firstAuthor="Serene" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="387 - 416" refId="ref76461" refString="Serene R &amp; Soh CL (1970) New IndoPacific genera allied to Sesarma Say 1877 (Brachyura, Decapoda, Crustacea). Treubia, 27: 387 - 416." type="journal article" year="1970">Serène &amp; Soh, 1970</bibRefCitation>
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. Comparative morphological and genetic studies also revealed that some representatives of
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FAC6FD8DFA4FFDE7" box="[1307,1474,574,598]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Pseudosesarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FCAEFDEDFC6AFDC4" box="[883,999,606,629]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarmops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have close affinities to
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FB2EFDEDFAF0FDC7" box="[1267,1405,606,630]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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and would need to be revised simultaneously.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C1039A40FFE5BA25FC9EFD0DFBFFFB67" blockId="4.[834,1475,702,1238]" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">
With regard to
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FC23FD0DFB3CFD67" box="[1022,1201,702,726]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Pseudosesarma</emphasis>
,
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FB18FD0DFA4CFD67" author="Serene &amp; Soh" box="[1221,1473,702,726]" firstAuthor="Serene" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="387 - 416" refId="ref76461" refString="Serene R &amp; Soh CL (1970) New IndoPacific genera allied to Sesarma Say 1877 (Brachyura, Decapoda, Crustacea). Treubia, 27: 387 - 416." type="journal article" year="1970">Serène &amp; Soh (1970)</bibRefCitation>
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established the genus for species with the following characteristics: a) medium-sized species with an epibranchial tooth and the antennal peduncle being inside the orbit, but without pectinated crests on male chelar palm; b) carapace slightly convex and shorter than wide, with lateral border of carapace weakly or not diverging posteriorly; c) anterior frontal margin with feeble median concavity, postfrontal lobes not remarkably salient. They made
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FB2AFC0DFC6DFC47" authority="De Man, 1887" authorityName="De Man" authorityYear="1887" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="edwardsii">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FB2AFC0DFA4FFC67" box="[1271,1474,958,982]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma edwardsii</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FC9EFC6DFC6DFC47" author="De Man" box="[835,992,990,1014]" firstAuthor="De Man" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="639 - 722" refId="ref72089" refString="Man JG De (1887) Ubersicht der Indopacifischen Arten der Gattung Sesarma Say nebst einer Kritik der von W. Hess und E. Nauck in den Jahren 1865 und 1880 beschrieben Decapoden. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abtheilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 2: 639 - 722." type="journal article" year="1887">De Man, 1887</bibRefCitation>
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, the
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species and included seven species:
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FC9EFC4DFB9BFBA7" box="[835,1046,1022,1046]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma bocourti</emphasis>
A.
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</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FABDFC4DFC5CFB87" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma crassimanum</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FB57FBADFAD5FB87" box="[1162,1368,1054,1078]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma edwardsii</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FABFFBADFCF5FBE7" author="De Man" firstAuthor="De Man" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="639 - 722" refId="ref72089" refString="Man JG De (1887) Ubersicht der Indopacifischen Arten der Gattung Sesarma Say nebst einer Kritik der von W. Hess und E. Nauck in den Jahren 1865 und 1880 beschrieben Decapoden. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abtheilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 2: 639 - 722." type="journal article" year="1887">De Man, 1887</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(spelled incorrectly as “
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FBA6FB8DFB42FBE7" box="[1147,1231,1086,1110]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">edwarsi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
”),
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FB2CFB8DFC7EFBC7" authority="Tweedie, 1940" authorityName="Tweedie" authorityYear="1940" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="johorensis">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FB2CFB8DFA4FFBE7" box="[1265,1474,1086,1110]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma johorensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FC9EFBEDFC7EFBC7" author="Tweedie" box="[835,1011,1118,1142]" firstAuthor="Tweedie" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="88 - 113" refId="ref78385" refString="Tweedie MWF (1940) New and interesting Malaysian species of Sesarma and Utica (Crustacea, Brachyura). Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, 16: 88 - 113, figs. 1 - 12, pl. 24." type="journal article" year="1940">Tweedie, 1940</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FBD8FBEDFA31FBC7" authority="Zehntner, 1894" authorityName="Zehntner" authorityYear="1894" box="[1029,1468,1118,1142]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="laevimanum">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FBD8FBEDFB70FBC7" box="[1029,1277,1118,1142]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma laevimanum</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FAD5FBEDFA31FBC7" author="Zehntner" box="[1288,1468,1118,1142]" firstAuthor="Zehntner" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="135 - 214" refId="ref78899" refString="Zehntner L (1894) Crustaces de l'Archipel Malais. Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l'Archipel Malais. Revue Suisse de Zoologie et Annales du Musee d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, 2: 135 - 214, pls. 7 - 9." type="journal article" year="1894">Zehntner, 1894</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FC99FBCDFB26FB27" authority="De Man, 1902" authorityName="De Man" authorityYear="1902" box="[836,1195,1150,1174]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="modestum">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FC99FBCDFB82FB27" box="[836,1039,1150,1174]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma modestum</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FBC9FBCDFB26FB27" author="De Man" box="[1044,1195,1150,1174]" firstAuthor="De Man" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="467 - 929" refId="ref72431" refString="Man JG De (1902) Die von Herrn Professor Kukenthal im Indischen Archipel gesammelten Dekapoden und Stomatopoden. In: Kukenthal W (ed.) Ergebnisse einer Zoologischen Forschungsreise in den Molukken und Borneo, in Auftrage der Senckenberg. Naturforsch. Gesellschaft ausgefuhrt von Dr. Willy Kukenthal. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 25 (3): 467 - 929, pls. 19 - 27." type="journal article" year="1902">De Man, 1902</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FB3DFBCDFC3BFB07" authority="De Man, 1892" authorityName="De Man" authorityYear="1892" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="moeschii">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FB3DFBCDFA13FB27" box="[1248,1438,1150,1174]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarma moeschii</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FA7EFBCDFC3BFB07" author="De Man" firstAuthor="De Man" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="225 - 264" refId="ref72297" refString="Man JG De (1892) Carcinological studies in the Leyden Museum, No. 6. Notes Leyden Museum, 14 (36): 225 - 264, pls. 7 - 10." type="journal article" year="1892">De Man, 1892</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FC62FB2DFBB8FB07" author="Soh" box="[959,1077,1182,1206]" firstAuthor="Soh" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="9 - 22" refId="ref77463" refString="Soh CL (1978) On a collection of sesarmine crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsidae) from Hong Kong. Memoirs of the Hong Kong Natural History Society, 13: 9 - 22." type="journal article" year="1978">Soh (1978)</bibRefCitation>
added a new species,
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FAC6FB2DFC12FB67" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Pseudosesarma patshuni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, from
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C1039A40FFE5BA25FC9EFB4DFA4FF9A4" blockId="4.[835,1474,1278,1558]" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FC9EFB4DFBD0FAA7" author="Ng" box="[835,1117,1278,1302]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Ng" page="222" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="1 - 286" refId="ref73754" refString="Ng PKL, Guinot D &amp; Davie PJF (2008 a) Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 17: 1 - 286." type="journal article" year="2008" yearSuffix="a">Ng et al. (2008a: 222</bibRefCitation>
, 225) listed nine species in
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FC98FAADFC67FA87" authorityName=", Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" box="[837,1002,1310,1334]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FC98FAADFC67FA87" box="[837,1002,1310,1334]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Pseudosesarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, thereby including
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FB69FAACFAE2FA87" box="[1204,1391,1311,1334]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">P. granosimanum</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FAA1FAADFCF1FAE7" author="Miers" firstAuthor="Miers" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="304 - 317" refId="ref72642" refString="Miers EJ (1880) On a collection of Crustacea from the Malayan Region. Part II. Telphusidea, Catometopa and Oxystomata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 5, 5 (28): 304 - 317, pl. 14." type="journal article" year="1880">Miers, 1880</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, a species previously classified in
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FADAFA8DFA1CFAE7" box="[1287,1425,1342,1366]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
due to the lack of anterolateral carapace teeth, without detailed elaboration (see above). They noted that
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FACAFACDFC42FA07" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Pseudosesarma crassimanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FC06FA2CFBD2FA07" baseAuthorityName="Tweedie" baseAuthorityYear="1940" box="[987,1119,1438,1462]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Manarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="johorense">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FC06FA2CFBD2FA07" box="[987,1119,1438,1462]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">P. johorense</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FBB7FA2CFB6FFA07" authorityName="De Man" authorityYear="1892" box="[1130,1250,1438,1462]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="moeschii">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FBB7FA2CFB6FFA07" box="[1130,1250,1438,1462]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">P. moeschii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FAC4FA2CFA1DFA07" authorityName="Soh" authorityYear="1978" box="[1305,1424,1438,1462]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="patshuni">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FAC4FA2CFA1DFA07" box="[1305,1424,1438,1462]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">P. patshuni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
may need to be referred to other genera in the future (see also
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FC9EFA6DFBA6FA47" author="Ng &amp; Schubart" box="[835,1067,1502,1526]" firstAuthor="Ng" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="655 - 669" refId="ref74064" refString="Ng PKL &amp; Schubart CD (2017) On the taxonomy of Pseudosesarma edwardsii (De Man, 1887) and P. crassimanum (De Man, 1887) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), with description of a new species from Sri Lanka. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 65: 655 - 669." type="journal article" year="2017">Ng &amp; Schubart, 2017</bibRefCitation>
). The present revision of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FAE5FA6DFA4FFA47" authorityName="Gistel" authorityYear="1848" box="[1336,1474,1502,1526]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FAE5FA6DFA4FFA47" box="[1336,1474,1502,1526]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
thus requires the simultaneous reappraisal of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FACBFA4DFA36F9A7" authorityName=", Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" box="[1302,1467,1534,1558]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FACBFA4DFA36F9A7" box="[1302,1467,1534,1558]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Pseudosesarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C1039A40FFE5BA25FC9EF98DFAF1F7A7" blockId="4.[835,1475,1598,2070]" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FC9EF98DFBBCF9E7" author="Serene &amp; Soh" box="[835,1073,1598,1622]" firstAuthor="Serene" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="387 - 416" refId="ref76461" refString="Serene R &amp; Soh CL (1970) New IndoPacific genera allied to Sesarma Say 1877 (Brachyura, Decapoda, Crustacea). Treubia, 27: 387 - 416." type="journal article" year="1970">Serène &amp; Soh (1970)</bibRefCitation>
clearly had reservations about their generic assignments of several species, recognising some of the unresolved generic problems. In their remarks on
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FCB7F92DFB95F907" authorityName=", Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" box="[874,1048,1694,1718]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FCB7F92DFB95F907" box="[874,1048,1694,1718]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Pseudosesarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, they wrote: “The genus has several characters close to those of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FBB7F90DFB53F964" authorityName="Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" box="[1130,1246,1726,1749]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarmops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FBB7F90DFB53F964" box="[1130,1246,1726,1749]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarmops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the separation of the two genera needs to be improved. As it is,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FAC1F96DFA4FF947" authorityName=", Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" box="[1308,1474,1758,1782]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FAC1F96DFA4FF947" box="[1308,1474,1758,1782]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Pseudosesarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is still heterogeneous. Perhaps a new genus would have to be established giving priority to the shape of the male pleopod and grouping
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FC08F88DFBA2F8E7" authorityName="A. Milne-Edwards" authorityYear="1869" box="[981,1071,1854,1878]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bocourti">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FC08F88DFBA2F8E7" box="[981,1071,1854,1878]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">bocourti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with the species of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FADDF88DFAF9F8E4" authorityName="Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" box="[1280,1396,1854,1877]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarmops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FADDF88DFAF9F8E4" box="[1280,1396,1854,1877]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarmops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
which, like
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FCAEF8EDFC77F8C7" baseAuthorityName="De Haan" baseAuthorityYear="1835" box="[883,1018,1886,1910]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Orisarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="intermedium">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FCAEF8EDFC77F8C7" box="[883,1018,1886,1910]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">intermedium</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have the same
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of male pleopod. The species
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FC47F8CDFC7FF827" box="[922,1010,1918,1942]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="moeschi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FC47F8CDFC7FF827" box="[922,1010,1918,1942]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">moeschi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FBF0F8CDFB11F827" box="[1069,1180,1918,1942]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">johorensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with their smooth shining carapace and other characters are also a few aberrant in[to]
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FC99F80DFC67F867" authority="(Serene &amp; Soh, 1970: 400)" authorityName=", Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" baseAuthorityName="Serene &amp; Soh" baseAuthorityPageNumber="400" baseAuthorityYear="1970" box="[836,1002,1982,2006]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FC99F80DFC67F867" box="[836,1002,1982,2006]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Pseudosesarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
” (
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). As these issues have never been resolved, it is necessary to include
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE5BA25FA8DF86DFBAEF7A7" authority="Serene &amp; Soh, 1970" authorityName="Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarmops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE5BA25FA8DF86DFA4CF844" box="[1360,1473,2014,2037]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="895">Sesarmops</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE5BA25FC9EF84DFBAEF7A7" author="Serene &amp; Soh" box="[835,1059,2046,2070]" firstAuthor="Serene" pageId="4" pageNumber="895" pagination="387 - 416" refId="ref76461" refString="Serene R &amp; Soh CL (1970) New IndoPacific genera allied to Sesarma Say 1877 (Brachyura, Decapoda, Crustacea). Treubia, 27: 387 - 416." type="journal article" year="1970">Serène &amp; Soh, 1970</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, as part of the present revision.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C1039A40FFE4BA24FFACFF0EFEA7FCE4" blockId="5.[113,754,188,853]" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FFACFF0EFF62FF65" authorityName="Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" box="[113,239,189,212]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarmops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FFACFF0EFF62FF65" box="[113,239,189,212]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Sesarmops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was established for six species:
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FD53FF0EFE09FF45" authority="Hess, 1865" authorityName="Hess" authorityYear="1865" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="atrorubens">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FD53FF0EFF7DFF45" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Sesarma atrorubens</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FF20FF6EFE09FF45" author="Hess" box="[253,388,220,244]" firstAuthor="Hess" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="127 - 173" refId="ref70115" refString="Hess W (1865) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Decapoden-Krebse Ost- Australiens. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 36: 127 - 173, pls. 1, 2." type="book chapter" year="1865">Hess, 1865</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FE4BFF6EFE92FEA4" authority="H. Milne Edwards, 1837" authorityName="H. Milne Edwards" authorityYear="1837" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="impressus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FE4BFF6EFDF4FF45" box="[406,633,221,244]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Sesarma impressus</emphasis>
H. Milne Edwards, 1837
</taxonomicName>
(
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species by original designation),
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FFAFFEAEFEC1FE85" box="[114,332,284,308]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Sesarma intermedius</emphasis>
De Haan, 1835
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FE28FEAEFE9FFEE4" authority="Rathbun, 1914" authorityName="Rathbun" authorityYear="1914" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mindanaoensis">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FE28FEAEFD7DFE85" box="[501,752,284,308]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Sesarma mindanaoensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FFACFE8FFE9FFEE4" author="Rathbun" box="[113,274,316,341]" firstAuthor="Rathbun" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="69 - 85" refId="ref75143" refString="Rathbun MJ (1914) New species of crabs of the families Grapsidae and Ocypodidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 47 (2044): 69 - 85." type="journal article" year="1914">Rathbun, 1914</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FEC3FE8EFE5BFEE5" box="[286,470,317,340]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Sesarma sinensis</emphasis>
H.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FDDCFE8FFD61FEE5" author="Milne Edwards" box="[513,748,316,340]" firstAuthor="Milne Edwards" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="163 - 228" refId="ref72839" refString="Milne Edwards H (1853) Memoires sur la famille des Ocypodiens, suite. Annales de Sciences Naturelle, Zoology, Paris, Serie 3 (Zoologie) 20: 163 - 228, pls. 6 - 11. [A continuation of H. Milne Edwards, 1852, and reprinted with it in the undated Melanges Carcinologiques pp. 129 - 196]" type="journal article" year="1853">Milne Edwards, 1853</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FF78FEEEFD9BFEC4" authority="De Man, 1892" authorityName="De Man" authorityYear="1892" box="[165,534,348,373]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="weberi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FF78FEEEFED3FEC5" box="[165,350,348,372]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Sesarma weberi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FEB4FEEEFD9BFEC4" author="De Man" box="[361,534,349,373]" firstAuthor="De Man" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="225 - 264" refId="ref72297" refString="Man JG De (1892) Carcinological studies in the Leyden Museum, No. 6. Notes Leyden Museum, 14 (36): 225 - 264, pls. 7 - 10." type="journal article" year="1892">De Man, 1892</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FDF8FEEEFD7DFEC4" author="Ng" box="[549,752,348,373]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Ng" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="1 - 286" refId="ref73754" refString="Ng PKL, Guinot D &amp; Davie PJF (2008 a) Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 17: 1 - 286." type="journal article" year="2008" yearSuffix="a">Ng et al. (2008a)</bibRefCitation>
continued to include these species, but commented that
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FFAFFE2EFEE0FE05" baseAuthorityName="De Haan" baseAuthorityYear="1835" box="[114,365,412,436]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarmops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="intermedius">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FFAFFE2EFEE0FE05" box="[114,365,412,436]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Sesarmops intermedius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FEA0FE2EFE62FE05" authorityName="H. Milne Edwards" authorityYear="1853" box="[381,495,413,436]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sinensis">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FEA0FE2EFE62FE05" box="[381,495,413,436]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">S. sinensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FDF2FE2EFD1BFE05" authorityName="De Man" authorityYear="1892" box="[559,662,412,436]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="weberi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FDF2FE2EFD1BFE05" box="[559,662,412,436]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">S. weberi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
need to be transferred to other genera. This was already noted by
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FFACFE6FFE03FE44" author="Serene &amp; Soh" box="[113,398,476,501]" firstAuthor="Serene" page="401" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="387 - 416" refId="ref76461" refString="Serene R &amp; Soh CL (1970) New IndoPacific genera allied to Sesarma Say 1877 (Brachyura, Decapoda, Crustacea). Treubia, 27: 387 - 416." type="journal article" year="1970">Serène &amp; Soh (1970: 401)</bibRefCitation>
: “If priority is given to the shape of the male pleopod,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FEBFFE4FFE64FDA5" baseAuthorityName="De Haan" baseAuthorityYear="1835" box="[354,489,508,532]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Orisarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="intermedium">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FEBFFE4FFE64FDA5" box="[354,489,508,532]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">intermedium</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FE27FE4EFDC2FDA5" authorityName="H. Milne Edwards" authorityYear="1853" box="[506,591,509,532]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sinensis">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FE27FE4EFDC2FDA5" box="[506,591,509,532]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">sinensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
can hardly be considered as congeneric with
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FE0FFDAEFDC5FD85" baseAuthorityName="H. Milne Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1837" box="[466,584,541,564]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarmops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="impressum">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FE0FFDAEFDC5FD85" box="[466,584,541,564]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">impressum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. However, the
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of the male pleopod of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FE78FD8FFE63FDE5" authorityName="De Man" authorityYear="1892" box="[421,494,572,596]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="weberi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FE78FD8FFE63FDE5" box="[421,494,572,596]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">weberi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is identical with that of
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FFAEFDEFFF76FDC5" box="[115,251,604,628]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">intermedium</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the fact that
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FE18FDEEFDFFFDC4" author="De Man" box="[453,626,605,629]" firstAuthor="De Man" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="467 - 929" refId="ref72431" refString="Man JG De (1902) Die von Herrn Professor Kukenthal im Indischen Archipel gesammelten Dekapoden und Stomatopoden. In: Kukenthal W (ed.) Ergebnisse einer Zoologischen Forschungsreise in den Molukken und Borneo, in Auftrage der Senckenberg. Naturforsch. Gesellschaft ausgefuhrt von Dr. Willy Kukenthal. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 25 (3): 467 - 929, pls. 19 - 27." type="journal article" year="1902">De Man (1902)</bibRefCitation>
considered
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FFAFFDCFFF72FD25" box="[114,255,636,660]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">intermedium</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a synonym of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FE0AFDCEFDDDFD25" baseAuthorityName="H. Milne Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1837" box="[471,592,637,660]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarmops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="impressum">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FE0AFDCEFDDDFD25" box="[471,592,637,660]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">impressum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is at least an indication to support the present position.
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FDE0FD2EFD20FD05" authorityName="H. Milne Edwards" authorityYear="1853" box="[573,685,669,692]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sinensis">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FDE0FD2EFD20FD05" box="[573,685,669,692]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">S. sinensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by its carapace clearly shorter than breadth between the external orbital angles and with lateral border nearly parallel seem to be aberrant in the genus. At least by the ornamentation of the dactylus of male cheliped
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FE64FCAFFD8FFC85" authorityName="De Man" authorityYear="1892" box="[441,514,796,820]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="weberi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FE64FCAFFD8FFC85" box="[441,514,796,820]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">weberi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is somewhat aberrant into
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FF79FC8EFE95FCE5" box="[164,280,829,852]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Sesarmops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
”.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C1039A40FFE4BA24FFACFCCFFF4DFA84" blockId="5.[113,754,892,1333]" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">
The present study demonstrates that
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FE3AFCCFFD67FC25" authorityName="Soh" authorityYear="1978" box="[487,746,892,916]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="patshuni">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FE3AFCCFFD67FC25" box="[487,746,892,916]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Pseudosesarma patshuni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FFACFC2EFEE4FC05" baseAuthorityName="De Haan" baseAuthorityYear="1835" box="[113,361,924,948]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarmops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="intermedius">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FFACFC2EFEE4FC05" box="[113,361,924,948]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Sesarmops intermedius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FE7EFC2EFD9FFC05" authorityName="H. Milne Edwards" authorityYear="1853" box="[419,530,925,948]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sinensis">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FE7EFC2EFD9FFC05" box="[419,530,925,948]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">S. sinensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are morphologically and phylogenetically close to
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FE67FC0FFD2DFC65" baseAuthorityName="H. Milne Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1853" box="[442,672,956,980]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dehaani">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FE67FC0FFD2DFC65" box="[442,672,956,980]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Chiromantes dehaani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FD07FC0EFF5BFC45" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="neglectus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FD07FC0EFF5BFC45" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. neglectus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, while
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FEFBFC6FFDB9FC45" baseAuthorityName="De Man" baseAuthorityYear="1892" box="[294,564,988,1012]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="moeschii">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FEFBFC6FFDB9FC45" box="[294,564,988,1012]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Pseudosesarma moeschii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FDB4FC6EFD7DFC45" baseAuthorityName="Tweedie" baseAuthorityYear="1940" box="[617,752,988,1012]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Manarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="johorense">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FDB4FC6EFD7DFC45" box="[617,752,988,1012]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">P. johorense</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
share a unique set of morphological characters.
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FD4EFC4EFDB8FB84" authority="Zehntner, 1894" authorityName="Zehntner" authorityYear="1894" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="variety" species="edwardsi" variety="laevimana">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FD4EFC4EFF59FB85" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Sesarma edwardsi</emphasis>
var.
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FECFFBAFFE0FFB85" box="[274,386,1052,1076]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">laevimana</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FE50FBAFFDB8FB84" author="Zehntner" box="[397,565,1052,1077]" firstAuthor="Zehntner" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="135 - 214" refId="ref78899" refString="Zehntner L (1894) Crustaces de l'Archipel Malais. Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l'Archipel Malais. Revue Suisse de Zoologie et Annales du Musee d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, 2: 135 - 214, pls. 7 - 9." type="journal article" year="1894">Zehntner, 1894</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(often placed in
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FFAFFB8FFE94FBE5" box="[114,281,1084,1108]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Pseudosesarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) is here recognised as the senior synonym of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FF4FFBEFFDB1FBC4" authority="(Tweedie, 1940)" baseAuthorityName="Tweedie" baseAuthorityYear="1940" box="[146,572,1116,1141]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Bresedium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sediliense">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FF4FFBEFFEF4FBC5" box="[146,377,1116,1140]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Bresedium sediliense</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FE51FBEFFDB9FBC4" author="Tweedie" box="[396,564,1116,1141]" firstAuthor="Tweedie" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="88 - 113" refId="ref78385" refString="Tweedie MWF (1940) New and interesting Malaysian species of Sesarma and Utica (Crustacea, Brachyura). Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, 16: 88 - 113, figs. 1 - 12, pl. 24." type="journal article" year="1940">Tweedie, 1940</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, and remains in
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FFAFFBCFFF68FB25" authorityName="Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" box="[114,229,1148,1172]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Bresedium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FFAFFBCFFF68FB25" box="[114,229,1148,1172]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Bresedium</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
for the moment (see Remarks for that genus).
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FFAFFB2FFE94FB05" authorityName=", Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" box="[114,281,1180,1204]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" sensu="stricto">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FFAFFB2FFE94FB05" box="[114,281,1180,1204]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Pseudosesarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="E8FBFB29FFE4BA24FEFFFB2EFED0FB05" box="[290,349,1181,1204]" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" sensu="stricto">s. str.</taxonomicNameLabel>
is here restricted to
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FD9EFB2EFD44FB05" authorityName="De Man" authorityYear="1887" box="[579,713,1180,1204]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="edwardsii">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FD9EFB2EFD44FB05" box="[579,713,1180,1204]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">P. edwardsii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FD04FB2EFF72FB65" baseAuthorityName="De Man" baseAuthorityYear="1887" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="crassimanum">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FD04FB2EFF72FB65" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">P. crassimanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and allies, now also including
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FDBBFB0FFF67FB45" authorityName="Calman" authorityYear="1920" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="boulengeri">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FDBBFB0FFF67FB45" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Chiromantes boulengeri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FEF0FB6EFDA6FB44" author="Ng &amp; Schubart" box="[301,555,1244,1269]" firstAuthor="Ng" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="655 - 669" refId="ref74064" refString="Ng PKL &amp; Schubart CD (2017) On the taxonomy of Pseudosesarma edwardsii (De Man, 1887) and P. crassimanum (De Man, 1887) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), with description of a new species from Sri Lanka. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 65: 655 - 669." type="journal article" year="2017">Ng &amp; Schubart, 2017</bibRefCitation>
).
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FD9FFB6FFF42FAA5" baseAuthorityName="A. Milne-Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1869" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bocourti">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FD9FFB6FFF42FAA5" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Pseudosesarma bocourti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FED0FB4EFE59FAA5" baseAuthorityName="Miers" baseAuthorityYear="1880" box="[269,468,1277,1300]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Miersarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="granosimanum">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FED0FB4EFE59FAA5" box="[269,468,1277,1300]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">P. granosimanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are referred to two new genera.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C1039A40FFE4BA24FFACFAEFFE3AF9C5" blockId="5.[113,753,1372,1652]" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">
With the present reorganisation and recent reappraisal of the
<typeStatus id="1E0724E2FFE4BA24FFACFACEFF12FA24" box="[113,159,1405,1429]" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">type</typeStatus>
species by
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FEC4FACEFE49FA24" author="Ng" box="[281,452,1404,1429]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Ng" journalOrPublisher="Crustaceana" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="759 - 768" part="93" refId="ref73715" refString="Ng PKL &amp; Devi SS (2020) A new tree-spider crab of the genus Leptarma (Brachyura, Sesarmidae) from mangroves in Kerala, India. Crustaceana, 93 (7): 759 - 768." title="A new tree-spider crab of the genus Leptarma (Brachyura, Sesarmidae) from mangroves in Kerala, India" type="journal article" year="2020">Ng et al. (2020)</bibRefCitation>
,
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FE12FACEFDCEFA25" box="[463,579,1405,1428]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Sesarmops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
now contains
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FD01FACEFD9FFA05" authority="(A. Milne-Edwards, 1869)" baseAuthorityName="A. Milne-Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1869" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarmops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="angustifrons">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FD01FACEFF78FA05" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">S. angustifrons</emphasis>
(A.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FEFFFA2FFD87FA05" author="Milne-Edwards" box="[290,522,1436,1460]" firstAuthor="Milne-Edwards" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="25 - 31" refId="ref72689" refString="Milne-Edwards A (1869) Notes sur quelques nouvelles especes du genre Sesarma (Say). Nouvelle Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 5: 25 - 31." type="journal article" year="1869">Milne-Edwards, 1869</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FDC6FA2EFF3FFA65" authority="(Hess, 1865)" baseAuthorityName="Hess" baseAuthorityYear="1865" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="atrorubens">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FDC6FA2EFD25FA05" box="[539,680,1436,1460]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">S. atrorubens</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FD68FA2EFF27FA65" author="Hess" firstAuthor="Hess" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="127 - 173" refId="ref70115" refString="Hess W (1865) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Decapoden-Krebse Ost- Australiens. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 36: 127 - 173, pls. 1, 2." type="book chapter" year="1865">Hess, 1865</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FF62FA0EFDBFFA64" authority="Ng, Li &amp; Shih, 2020" authorityName="Ng, Li &amp; Shih" authorityYear="2020" box="[191,562,1468,1493]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarmops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="imperator">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FF62FA0EFECBFA65" box="[191,326,1469,1492]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">S. imperator</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FE93FA0EFDBFFA64" author="Ng, Li &amp; Shih" box="[334,562,1468,1493]" firstAuthor="Ng" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" refId="ref71682" refString="Li J-J, Shih H-T &amp; Ng PKL (2020) The Taiwanese and Philippine species of the terrestrial crabs Bresedium Serene and Soh, 1970 and Sesarmops Serene and Soh, 1970 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), with descriptions of two new species. Zoological Studies, 59: 16. doi: 10.6620 / ZS. 2020.59 - 16, 32 pp." type="book" year="2020">Ng, Li &amp; Shih, 2020</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FDE3FA0EFEE5FA44" authority="(H. Milne Edwards, 1837)" baseAuthorityName="H. Milne Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1837" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="impressus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FDE3FA0EFD48FA65" box="[574,709,1469,1492]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">S. impressus</emphasis>
(H. Milne Edwards, 1837)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FEA8FA6EFD42FA44" authority="Ng, Li &amp; Shih, 2020" authorityName="Ng, Li &amp; Shih" authorityYear="2020" box="[373,719,1500,1525]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarmops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="indicus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FEA8FA6EFE52FA45" box="[373,479,1500,1524]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">S. indicus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FE35FA6EFD42FA44" author="Ng, Li &amp; Shih" box="[488,719,1500,1525]" firstAuthor="Ng" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" refId="ref71682" refString="Li J-J, Shih H-T &amp; Ng PKL (2020) The Taiwanese and Philippine species of the terrestrial crabs Bresedium Serene and Soh, 1970 and Sesarmops Serene and Soh, 1970 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), with descriptions of two new species. Zoological Studies, 59: 16. doi: 10.6620 / ZS. 2020.59 - 16, 32 pp." type="book" year="2020">Ng, Li &amp; Shih, 2020</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FD01FA6EFE41F9A4" authority="(Rathbun, 1914)" baseAuthorityName="Rathbun" baseAuthorityYear="1914" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mindanaoensis">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FD01FA6EFE9CF9A5" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">S. mindanaoensis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FEFCFA4FFE48F9A4" author="Rathbun" box="[289,453,1532,1557]" firstAuthor="Rathbun" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="69 - 85" refId="ref75143" refString="Rathbun MJ (1914) New species of crabs of the families Grapsidae and Ocypodidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 47 (2044): 69 - 85." type="journal article" year="1914">Rathbun, 1914</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FE04FA4EFD30F9A5" authority="Hess, 1865" authorityName="Hess" authorityYear="1865" box="[473,701,1532,1556]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarmops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="similis">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FE04FA4EFDB6F9A5" box="[473,571,1532,1556]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">S. similis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FD9EFA4EFD30F9A5" author="Hess" box="[579,701,1532,1556]" firstAuthor="Hess" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="127 - 173" refId="ref70115" refString="Hess W (1865) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Decapoden-Krebse Ost- Australiens. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 36: 127 - 173, pls. 1, 2." type="book chapter" year="1865">Hess, 1865</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FFACF9AEFE0EF984" authority="(De Man, 1892)" baseAuthorityName="De Man" baseAuthorityYear="1892" box="[113,387,1564,1589]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="weberi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FFACF9AEFF59F985" box="[113,212,1564,1588]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">S. weberi</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FF3CF9AEFEF6F984" author="De Man" box="[225,379,1565,1589]" firstAuthor="De Man" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="225 - 264" refId="ref72297" refString="Man JG De (1892) Carcinological studies in the Leyden Museum, No. 6. Notes Leyden Museum, 14 (36): 225 - 264, pls. 7 - 10." type="journal article" year="1892">De Man, 1892</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
(see also
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FE37F9AFFD61F984" author="Paulay &amp; Starmer" box="[490,748,1564,1589]" firstAuthor="Paulay" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="19916" refId="ref74752" refString="Paulay G &amp; Starmer J (2011) Evolution, insular restriction, and extinction of oceanic land crabs, exemplified by the loss of an endemic Geograpsus in the Hawaiian Islands. PLoS ONE, 6 (5): e 19916. doi: 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0019916" type="journal article" year="2011">Paulay &amp; Starmer, 2011</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FFACF98EFEDFF9E4" author="Naruse &amp; Ng" box="[113,338,1597,1621]" firstAuthor="Naruse" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="445 - 532" refId="ref73455" refString="Naruse T &amp; Ng PKL (2020) Revision of the sesarmid crab genera Labuanium Serene and Soh, 1970, Scandarma Schubart, Liu and Cuesta, 2003, and Namlacium Serene and Soh, 1970 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsoidea), with descriptions of four new genera and three new species. Journal of Natural History, 54 (7 - 8): 445 - 532." type="journal article" year="2020">Naruse &amp; Ng, 2020</bibRefCitation>
). The genus is not monophyletic and will be revised at a later date.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C1039A40FFE4BA24FFACF92FFED9F8E5" blockId="5.[113,753,1692,1876]" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">The new taxonomic structure provided here, including the nine new genera proposed, is based on newly recognised morphological characters, supported by a phylogenetic analysis, and clearly shows that the presence or absence of an epibranchial tooth is not useful in systematics (see General Discussion).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C1039A40FFE4BA24FFACF8CFFA14FEE4" blockId="5.[113,752,1916,2101]" lastBlockId="5.[813,1452,188,341]" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FFACF8CFFD9CF824" bold="true" box="[113,529,1916,1941]" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Outline of the new generic structure</emphasis>
. The
<typeStatus id="1E0724E2FFE4BA24FD8DF8CEFDF3F824" box="[592,638,1917,1941]" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">type</typeStatus>
species of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FFAFF82FFF77F805" authorityName="Gistel" authorityYear="1848" box="[114,250,1948,1972]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FFAFF82FFF77F805" box="[114,250,1948,1972]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FEDBF82EFF24F864" authority="De Haan, 1833" authorityName="De Haan" authorityYear="1833" class="Malacostraca" family="Grapsidae" genus="Grapsus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="haematocheir" subGenus="Pachysoma">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FEDBF82EFEEDF805" box="[262,352,1949,1972]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Grapsus</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FEB3F82FFE65F805" box="[366,488,1948,1972]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Pachysoma</emphasis>
)
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FE2BF82FFD05F805" box="[502,648,1948,1972]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">haematocheir</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FD50F82EFF24F864" author="De Haan" firstAuthor="De Haan" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="1 - 55" refId="ref69759" refString="Haan W De (1833 - 1849) Crustacea. In: Siebold PF (ed.) Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, Qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 18231830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit, (Crustacea). LugduniBatavorum. Pp. ixvii + ixxxi + iixxvi + 1 - 243, pls. A - J, L - Q, 1 - 55, circ. table 2." type="book chapter" year="1833">De Haan, 1833</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, is markedly different from the other species currently placed in the genus, with the exception of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FD8FF86EFD7DF845" authorityName="Naruse &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2008" box="[594,752,2012,2036]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ryukyuanus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FD8FF86EFD7DF845" box="[594,752,2012,2036]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. ryukyuanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the already synonymised
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FE67F84EFDA7F7A5" authorityName="Soh" authorityYear="1978" box="[442,554,2045,2068]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="serenei">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FE67F84EFDA7F7A5" box="[442,554,2045,2068]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. serenei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, because its adult male thoracic sternites 2 to 4 are relatively broader and the sternopleonal cavity reaches only to the median point of sternite 4 (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE4BA24FC16FF6FFBC7FF44" box="[971,1098,220,245]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="20.[135,170,1977,1999]" captionTargetBox="[195,1417,189,1962]" captionTargetId="figure-7@20.[195,1417,189,1962]" captionTargetPageId="20" captionText="Fig. 9. Male anterior thoracic sternum and pleon. A, Chiromantes haematocheir, lectotype male (33.7 × 29.7 mm) (RMNH-D160), Japan; B, C. ryukyuanus, holotype male (33.1 × 29.6 mm) (RUMF-ZC-539), Okinawa Island, Japan; C, Orisarma dehaani, lectotype male (39.5 × 35.7 mm) (RMNH-D157), Japan; D, O. neglectum, neotype male (35.6 × 31.8 mm) (ZRC 1998.310), Shanghai, China; E, O. intermedium, lectotype male (23.0 × 19.9 mm) (RMNH-D165), Japan; F, O. sinense, lectotype male (19.0 × 16.6 mm) (MNHN-BP3635a), China; G, O. sinense, male (29.6 × 25.4 mm) (ZRC 1998.1204), Shanghai, China; H, O. patshuni, male (14.2 × 13.0 mm) (ZRC 1998.345), Hong Kong." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351313" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351313/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Fig. 9A, B</figureCitation>
). All other species assigned to
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FCF0FF4FFC3AFEA5" authorityName="Gistel" authorityYear="1848" box="[813,951,252,276]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FCF0FF4FFC3AFEA5" box="[813,951,252,276]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have thoracic sternites 2 to 4 proportionately narrower and the sternopleonal cavity longer, reaching to just before the anterior margin of sternite 2 (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE4BA24FACBFE8FFA03FEE4" box="[1302,1422,316,341]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="20.[135,170,1977,1999]" captionTargetBox="[195,1417,189,1962]" captionTargetId="figure-7@20.[195,1417,189,1962]" captionTargetPageId="20" captionText="Fig. 9. Male anterior thoracic sternum and pleon. A, Chiromantes haematocheir, lectotype male (33.7 × 29.7 mm) (RMNH-D160), Japan; B, C. ryukyuanus, holotype male (33.1 × 29.6 mm) (RUMF-ZC-539), Okinawa Island, Japan; C, Orisarma dehaani, lectotype male (39.5 × 35.7 mm) (RMNH-D157), Japan; D, O. neglectum, neotype male (35.6 × 31.8 mm) (ZRC 1998.310), Shanghai, China; E, O. intermedium, lectotype male (23.0 × 19.9 mm) (RMNH-D165), Japan; F, O. sinense, lectotype male (19.0 × 16.6 mm) (MNHN-BP3635a), China; G, O. sinense, male (29.6 × 25.4 mm) (ZRC 1998.1204), Shanghai, China; H, O. patshuni, male (14.2 × 13.0 mm) (ZRC 1998.345), Hong Kong." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351313" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351313/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Fig. 9CH</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C1039A40FFE4BA24FCF0FECFFC32FC65" blockId="5.[813,1452,380,980]" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">
With
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FCAEFECFFB37FE25" box="[883,1210,380,404]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="haematocheir">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FCAEFECFFB37FE25" box="[883,1210,380,404]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Chiromantes haematocheir</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FB20FECEFA27FE25" authorityName="Naruse &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2008" box="[1277,1450,380,404]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ryukyuanus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FB20FECEFA27FE25" box="[1277,1450,380,404]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. ryukyuanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
separated, the remaining species fall into several discrete groups that will be given genus rank:
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FB66FE0FFA26FE65" box="[1211,1451,444,468]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="eulimene">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FB66FE0FFA26FE65" box="[1211,1451,444,468]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Chiromantes eulimene</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(De Man, in
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FC6FFE6FFBB0FE44" author="Weber" box="[946,1085,476,501]" firstAuthor="Weber" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="156 - 180" refId="ref78562" refString="Weber M (1897) Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Fauna von Sud-Afrika. Ergebnisse einer Reise von Prof. Max Weber im Jahre 1894. 3. Die Decapoden Crustaceen des Susswassers von Sud-Afrika. (Mit Beitragen von Dr. J. C. H. de Meijere und Dr. J. G. de Man). I. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abtheilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, (Part VI) 10: 156 - 180, 1 pl." type="journal article" year="1897">Weber, 1897</bibRefCitation>
) and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FBABFE6EFA21FE45" authority="(Crosnier, 1965)" baseAuthorityName="Crosnier" baseAuthorityYear="1965" box="[1142,1452,476,500]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Cristarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ortmanni">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FBABFE6EFB7BFE45" box="[1142,1270,477,500]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. ortmanni</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FADEFE6FFA29FE45" author="Crosnier" box="[1283,1444,476,500]" firstAuthor="Crosnier" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="1 - 143" refId="ref68404" refString="Crosnier A (1965) Crustaces Decapodes, Grapsidae et Ocypodidae. Faune de Madagascar, Tananarive, 18: 1 - 143, pls. 1 - 11, textfigs. 1 - 260." type="journal article" year="1965">Crosnier, 1965</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
are in one group, while
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FB99FE4EFCE3FD85" authority="(H. Milne Edwards, 1853)" baseAuthorityName="H. Milne Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1853" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dehaani">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FB99FE4EFB32FDA5" box="[1092,1215,508,532]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. dehaani</emphasis>
(H.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FB24FE4FFCEBFD85" author="Milne Edwards" firstAuthor="Milne Edwards" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="163 - 228" refId="ref72839" refString="Milne Edwards H (1853) Memoires sur la famille des Ocypodiens, suite. Annales de Sciences Naturelle, Zoology, Paris, Serie 3 (Zoologie) 20: 163 - 228, pls. 6 - 11. [A continuation of H. Milne Edwards, 1852, and reprinted with it in the undated Melanges Carcinologiques pp. 129 - 196]" type="journal article" year="1853">Milne Edwards, 1853</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FCAAFDAEFB38FD84" authority="(De Man, 1887)" baseAuthorityName="De Man" baseAuthorityYear="1887" box="[887,1205,540,565]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="neglectum">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FCAAFDAEFB89FD85" box="[887,1028,540,564]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. neglectum</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FBCCFDAEFB20FD84" author="De Man" box="[1041,1197,541,565]" firstAuthor="De Man" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="639 - 722" refId="ref72089" refString="Man JG De (1887) Ubersicht der Indopacifischen Arten der Gattung Sesarma Say nebst einer Kritik der von W. Hess und E. Nauck in den Jahren 1865 und 1880 beschrieben Decapoden. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abtheilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 2: 639 - 722." type="journal article" year="1887">De Man, 1887</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FB31FDAEFC20FDE4" authority="Komai &amp; Ng, 2013" authorityName="Komai &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2013" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magnus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FB31FDAEFAD0FD85" box="[1260,1373,541,564]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. magnus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FABEFDAFFC20FDE4" author="Komai &amp; Ng" firstAuthor="Komai" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="539 - 551" refId="ref71033" refString="Komai T &amp; Ng PKL (2013) A new species of sesarmid crab of the genus Chiromantes (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Zootaxa, 3681 (5): 539 - 551." type="journal article" year="2013">Komai &amp; Ng, 2013</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, are in another.
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FB88FD8FFCE6FDC5" authority="(Dana, 1851)" baseAuthorityName="Dana" baseAuthorityYear="1851" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obtusifrons">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FB88FD8FFAD0FDE5" box="[1109,1373,572,596]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Chiromantes obtusifrons</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FAB6FD8EFCEEFDC5" author="Dana" firstAuthor="Dana" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="247 - 254" refId="ref68617" refString="Dana JD (1851) Conspectus crustaceorum quae in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicae Foederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit J. D. Dana. Crustacea Grapsoidea, (Cyclometopa, Edwardsii). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 5: 247 - 254." type="journal article" year="1851">Dana, 1851</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
and four species described as new in the revision of this group of species by
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FB98FDCFFAAFFD24" author="Davie &amp; Ng" box="[1093,1314,636,661]" firstAuthor="Davie" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="1 - 25" refId="ref68942" refString="Davie PJF &amp; Ng PKL (2013) A review of Chiromantes obtusifrons (Dana, 1851) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), with descriptions of four new sibling-species from Christmas Island, Guam and Taiwan. Zootaxa, 3609 (1): 1 - 25." type="journal article" year="2013">Davie &amp; Ng (2013)</bibRefCitation>
belong to a third group.
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FC6AFD2FFA21FD05" authority="(Brito Capello, 1864)" baseAuthorityName="Brito Capello" baseAuthorityYear="1864" box="[951,1452,668,692]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="angolensis">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FC6AFD2FFB31FD05" box="[951,1212,668,692]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Chiromantes angolensis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FB17FD2FFA29FD05" author="Brito Capello" box="[1226,1444,668,692]" firstAuthor="Brito Capello" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" refId="ref67965" refString="Brito Capello F de (1864) Descripcao de tres especies novas de crustaceos da Africa Occidental e observacoes acerca do Penoeus [sic] bocagei. Johnson. Especie nova dos mares de Portugal. Typographia da Academia, Lisboa. 11 + [1 unnumbered page of errata] pp., 1 unnumbered plate with 10 figures." type="book" year="1864">Brito Capello, 1864</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FC83FD0EFB4CFD64" authority="(De Man, 1883)" baseAuthorityName="De Man" baseAuthorityYear="1883" box="[862,1217,700,725]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Platychirarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="buettikoferi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FC83FD0EFB8DFD65" box="[862,1024,700,724]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. buettikoferi</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FBCFFD0EFB34FD64" author="De Man" box="[1042,1209,701,725]" firstAuthor="De Man" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="150 - 169" refId="ref72057" refString="Man JG De (1883) Carcinological Studies in the Leyden Museum. No. 3. Notes from the Leyden Museum, 5 (3): 150 - 169." type="journal article" year="1883">De Man, 1883</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
belong to their own respective groups.
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FC26FD6FFA2AFD44" authority="Calman, 1920" authorityName="Calman" authorityYear="1920" box="[1019,1447,732,757]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="boulengeri">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FC26FD6FFA8EFD45" box="[1019,1283,732,756]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Chiromantes boulengeri</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FAD1FD6FFA2AFD44" author="Calman" box="[1292,1447,732,757]" firstAuthor="Calman" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="62 - 65" refId="ref68102" refString="Calman WT (1920) A new crab of the genus Sesarma from Basra. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 5 (25): 62 - 65, figs. A, B." type="journal article" year="1920">Calman, 1920</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, belongs in
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FC7CFD4FFBC5FCA5" authorityName=", Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" box="[929,1096,764,788]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FC7CFD4FFBC5FCA5" box="[929,1096,764,788]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Pseudosesarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, while
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FB45FD4EFCE6FC84" authority="(Miers, 1880)" baseAuthorityName="Miers" baseAuthorityYear="1880" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Miersarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="granosimanum">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FB45FD4EFADAFCA5" box="[1176,1367,765,788]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. granosimanum</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FAB8FD4FFCE9FC84" author="Miers" firstAuthor="Miers" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="304 - 317" refId="ref72642" refString="Miers EJ (1880) On a collection of Crustacea from the Malayan Region. Part II. Telphusidea, Catometopa and Oxystomata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 5, 5 (28): 304 - 317, pl. 14." type="journal article" year="1880">Miers, 1880</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
possesses sufficient unique morphological characters to justify its placement in a monotypic genus. Similarly,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FCF0FCEFFAD3FCC5" authority="(A. Milne-Edwards, 1869)" baseAuthorityName="A. Milne-Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1869" box="[813,1374,860,885]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bocourti">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FCF0FCEFFBBBFCC5" box="[813,1078,860,884]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Pseudosesarma bocourti</emphasis>
(A.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FBB7FCEFFADBFCC5" author="Milne-Edwards" box="[1130,1366,860,884]" firstAuthor="Milne-Edwards" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="25 - 31" refId="ref72689" refString="Milne-Edwards A (1869) Notes sur quelques nouvelles especes du genre Sesarma (Say). Nouvelle Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 5: 25 - 31." type="journal article" year="1869">Milne-Edwards, 1869</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
is also referred to a new genus, and its former synonym
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FA92FCCEFB3BFC04" authority="Targioni Tozzetti, 1877" authorityName="Targioni Tozzetti" authorityYear="1877" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cheirogona">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FA92FCCEFC2BFC05" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Sesarma cheirogona</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE4BA24FC6DFC2FFB3BFC04" author="Targioni Tozzetti" box="[944,1206,924,949]" firstAuthor="Targioni Tozzetti" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" pagination="1 - 257" refId="ref77991" refString="Targioni Tozzetti A (1877) Crostacei brachyuri e anomuri. Zoologia del viaggio intorno al Globo della R. Pirocorvetta Magenta durante gli anni 1865 - 1868. Pubblicazioni del R Istituto di Studi Superiori Pratici e di Perfezionamento in Firenze, Sezione di Scienze fisiche e naturali, Successori le Monnier, Firenze, 1: i - xxix + 1 - 257, pls. 1 - 12." type="journal article" year="1877">Targioni Tozzetti, 1877</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, is here regarded as a valid species.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C1039A40FFE4BA24FCF0FC4FFAD9F784" blockId="5.[811,1454,1020,2101]" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FCF0FC4FFB9FFBA5" baseAuthorityName="H. Milne Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1853" box="[813,1042,1020,1044]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" sensu="stricto" species="dehaani">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FCF0FC4FFB9FFBA5" box="[813,1042,1020,1044]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Chiromantes dehaani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="E8FBFB29FFE4BA24FBCAFC4EFBDCFBA5" box="[1047,1105,1021,1044]" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" sensu="stricto">s. str.</taxonomicNameLabel>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FB86FC4EFB50FBA5" box="[1115,1245,1020,1044]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="neglectus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FB86FC4EFB50FBA5" box="[1115,1245,1020,1044]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. neglectus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FAC8FC4EFA0BFBA5" authorityName="Komai &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2013" box="[1301,1414,1021,1044]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magnus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FAC8FC4EFA0BFBA5" box="[1301,1414,1021,1044]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. magnus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are characterised by their chelipedal palm lacking a longitudinal ridge on its dorsal margin and the dactylus not possessing any distinctly shaped or regularly arranged granules or tubercles along its dorsal margin. On the other hand, the inner surface of the male palm has a prominent transverse ridge of rounded granules that are positioned on the most swollen part of the palm; and the outer surface of the palm has a clearly discernible short and smooth median longitudinal ridge (although sometimes low or partially obscured by a granular surface). In addition, these species have a septum separating the basal antennal and antennular articles (absent in
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FC91FACEFB8EFA25" box="[844,1027,1404,1428]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="haematocheir">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FC91FACEFB8EFA25" box="[844,1027,1404,1428]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. haematocheir</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FBE2FACEFB50FA25" authorityName="Naruse &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2008" box="[1087,1245,1404,1428]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ryukyuanus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FBE2FACEFB50FA25" box="[1087,1245,1404,1428]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. ryukyuanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). The structure of the cristae on the postfrontal margin also differs in the two groups. In
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FC47FA0EFBC7FA65" box="[922,1098,1468,1492]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="haematocheir">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FC47FA0EFBC7FA65" box="[922,1098,1468,1492]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. haematocheir</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FBA7FA0EFA9FFA65" authorityName="Naruse &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2008" box="[1146,1298,1468,1492]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ryukyuanus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FBA7FA0EFA9FFA65" box="[1146,1298,1468,1492]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. ryukyuanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the epigastric and postfrontal cristae are sharp and almost confluent, with shallow grooves separating them (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE4BA24FB7BFA4FFAA6F9A5" box="[1190,1323,1532,1557]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="7.[113,148,1626,1648]" captionTargetBox="[113,1449,189,1611]" captionTargetId="figure-14@7.[113,1449,189,1611]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="Fig. 1. Overall habitus. A, Chiromantes haematocheir, lectotype male (33.7 × 29.7 mm) (RMNH-D160), Japan; B, C. ryukyuanus, holotype male (33.1 × 29.6 mm) (RUMF-ZC-539), Okinawa Island, Japan; C, Orisarma dehaani, lectotype male (39.5 × 35.7 mm) (RMNH-D157), Japan; D, O. dehaani, male (36.4 × 34.4 mm) (ZRC 2011.1027), Kumejima Island, Japan; E, O. neglectum, neotype male (35.6 × 31.8 mm) (ZRC 1998.310), Shanghai, China; F, O. magnum, paratype male (50.6 × 45.6 mm) (ZRC 2013.0173), Ogasawara Island, Japan; G, O. patshuni, male (14.2 × 13.0 mm) (ZRC 1998.345), Hong Kong; H, O. patshuni, male (20.4 × 18.2 mm) (ZRC 2012.0032), Hong Kong." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351297" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351297/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Figs. 1A, B</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE4BA24FAE4FA4EFAD0F9A4" box="[1337,1373,1533,1557]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="10.[136,171,1435,1457]" captionTargetBox="[136,1476,189,1419]" captionTargetId="figure-7@10.[136,1476,189,1419]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="Fig. 3. Frontal view of cephalothorax. A, Chiromantes haematocheir, lectotype male (33.7 × 29.7 mm) (RMNH-D160), Japan; B, Orisarma dehaani, lectotype male (39.5 × 35.7 mm) (RMNH-D157), Japan; C, O. neglectum, neotype male (35.6 × 31.8 mm) (ZRC 1998.310), Shanghai, China; D, O. intermedium, male (27.1 × 25.2 mm) (ZRC 1970.2.23.6), Japan; E, O. sinense, male (29.6 × 25.4 mm) (ZRC 1998.1204), Shanghai, China; F, O. patshuni, male (14.2 × 13.0 mm) (ZRC 1998.345), Hong Kong." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351301" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351301/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">3A</figureCitation>
). In
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FA4EFA4EFC0EF985" baseAuthorityName="H. Milne Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1853" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" sensu="stricto" species="dehaani">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FA4EFA4EFC0EF985" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. dehaani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="E8FBFB29FFE4BA24FC51F9AEFC44F985" box="[908,969,1565,1588]" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" sensu="stricto">s. str.</taxonomicNameLabel>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FC0AF9AEFBD0F985" box="[983,1117,1564,1588]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="neglectus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FC0AF9AEFBD0F985" box="[983,1117,1564,1588]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. neglectus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FB4BF9AEFA87F985" authorityName="Komai &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2013" box="[1174,1290,1565,1588]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magnus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FB4BF9AEFA87F985" box="[1174,1290,1565,1588]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. magnus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the epigastric and postfrontal cristae are rounded and separated by deep and broad grooves (e.g.,
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE4BA24FBE3F9EFFB32F9C5" box="[1086,1215,1628,1653]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="7.[113,148,1626,1648]" captionTargetBox="[113,1449,189,1611]" captionTargetId="figure-14@7.[113,1449,189,1611]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="Fig. 1. Overall habitus. A, Chiromantes haematocheir, lectotype male (33.7 × 29.7 mm) (RMNH-D160), Japan; B, C. ryukyuanus, holotype male (33.1 × 29.6 mm) (RUMF-ZC-539), Okinawa Island, Japan; C, Orisarma dehaani, lectotype male (39.5 × 35.7 mm) (RMNH-D157), Japan; D, O. dehaani, male (36.4 × 34.4 mm) (ZRC 2011.1027), Kumejima Island, Japan; E, O. neglectum, neotype male (35.6 × 31.8 mm) (ZRC 1998.310), Shanghai, China; F, O. magnum, paratype male (50.6 × 45.6 mm) (ZRC 2013.0173), Ogasawara Island, Japan; G, O. patshuni, male (14.2 × 13.0 mm) (ZRC 1998.345), Hong Kong; H, O. patshuni, male (20.4 × 18.2 mm) (ZRC 2012.0032), Hong Kong." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351297" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351297/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Figs. 1C, D</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE4BA24FB10F9EEFB62F9C4" box="[1229,1263,1629,1653]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="10.[136,171,1435,1457]" captionTargetBox="[136,1476,189,1419]" captionTargetId="figure-7@10.[136,1476,189,1419]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="Fig. 3. Frontal view of cephalothorax. A, Chiromantes haematocheir, lectotype male (33.7 × 29.7 mm) (RMNH-D160), Japan; B, Orisarma dehaani, lectotype male (39.5 × 35.7 mm) (RMNH-D157), Japan; C, O. neglectum, neotype male (35.6 × 31.8 mm) (ZRC 1998.310), Shanghai, China; D, O. intermedium, male (27.1 × 25.2 mm) (ZRC 1970.2.23.6), Japan; E, O. sinense, male (29.6 × 25.4 mm) (ZRC 1998.1204), Shanghai, China; F, O. patshuni, male (14.2 × 13.0 mm) (ZRC 1998.345), Hong Kong." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351301" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351301/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">3B</figureCitation>
). In addition, the vulvae are slightly different, with that of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FB2AF9CEFA21F925" box="[1271,1452,1660,1684]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="haematocheir">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FB2AF9CEFA21F925" box="[1271,1452,1660,1684]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. haematocheir</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FC83F92EFC70F905" authorityName="Naruse &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2008" box="[862,1021,1692,1716]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ryukyuanus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FC83F92EFC70F905" box="[862,1021,1692,1716]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. ryukyuanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
just touching the margin of sternite 5 (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE4BA24FCE8F90FFC14F964" box="[821,921,1724,1749]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="72.[136,171,1898,1920]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,211,1882]" captionTargetId="figure-8@72.[136,1474,211,1882]" captionTargetPageId="72" captionText="Fig. 43. Vulva. A, Chiromantes haematocheir, female (27.0 × 23.7 mm) (ZRC 2002.0225), Japan; B, Orisarma dehaani, female (20.4 × 17.8 mm) (ZRC 2012.0057), Japan; C, Orisarma intermedium, female (31.8 × 28.4 mm) (ZRC 2013.0140), Japan; D, Orisarma patshuni, female (20.5 × 18.1 mm) (ZRC 2014.0817), Hong Kong; E, Danarma obtusifrons, female (15.7 × 11.6 mm) (UF-FLMNH 14837), Hawaii; F, Danarma eurymerus, paratype ovigerous female (18.0 × 13.4 mm) (ZRC 2012.0956), Taiwan; G, Cristarma eulimene, female (15.6 × 12.8 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.3), Mozambique; H, Cristarma ortmanni, female (13.1 × 10.2 mm) (ZRC 2000.1783), Kenya; I, Trapezarma angolense, female (18.2 × 14.3 mm) (ZRC 2015.0297), Cameroon; J, Platychirarma buettikoferi, ovigerous female (11.3 × 9.1 mm) (ZRC 2015.0298), Cameroon." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351373" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351373/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Fig. 43A</figureCitation>
), while in
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FBD1F90EFB0FF965" baseAuthorityName="H. Milne Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1853" box="[1036,1154,1724,1748]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" sensu="stricto" species="dehaani">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FBD1F90EFB0FF965" box="[1036,1154,1724,1748]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. dehaani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="E8FBFB29FFE4BA24FB54F90EFB4BF965" box="[1161,1222,1725,1748]" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" sensu="stricto">s. str.</taxonomicNameLabel>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FB0FF90EFADAF965" box="[1234,1367,1724,1748]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="neglectus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FB0FF90EFADAF965" box="[1234,1367,1724,1748]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. neglectus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FA4EF90EFC0DF945" authorityName="Komai &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2013" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magnus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FA4EF90EFC0DF945" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. magnus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the vulva is pressed against sternite 5, causing a slight indentation (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE4BA24FC2FF94FFBDFF8A4" box="[1010,1106,1788,1813]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="72.[136,171,1898,1920]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,211,1882]" captionTargetId="figure-8@72.[136,1474,211,1882]" captionTargetPageId="72" captionText="Fig. 43. Vulva. A, Chiromantes haematocheir, female (27.0 × 23.7 mm) (ZRC 2002.0225), Japan; B, Orisarma dehaani, female (20.4 × 17.8 mm) (ZRC 2012.0057), Japan; C, Orisarma intermedium, female (31.8 × 28.4 mm) (ZRC 2013.0140), Japan; D, Orisarma patshuni, female (20.5 × 18.1 mm) (ZRC 2014.0817), Hong Kong; E, Danarma obtusifrons, female (15.7 × 11.6 mm) (UF-FLMNH 14837), Hawaii; F, Danarma eurymerus, paratype ovigerous female (18.0 × 13.4 mm) (ZRC 2012.0956), Taiwan; G, Cristarma eulimene, female (15.6 × 12.8 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.3), Mozambique; H, Cristarma ortmanni, female (13.1 × 10.2 mm) (ZRC 2000.1783), Kenya; I, Trapezarma angolense, female (18.2 × 14.3 mm) (ZRC 2015.0297), Cameroon; J, Platychirarma buettikoferi, ovigerous female (11.3 × 9.1 mm) (ZRC 2015.0298), Cameroon." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351373" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351373/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Fig. 43B</figureCitation>
). As such, these three species are here referred to their own new genus,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FB0DF8AEFAB5F885" authorityName="Schubart &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2020" box="[1232,1336,1821,1844]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Orisarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FB0DF8AEFAB5F885" box="[1232,1336,1821,1844]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Orisarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. This new genus will also accommodate two species that had previously been placed in
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FC05F8EEFBC1F8C5" authorityName="Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" box="[984,1100,1885,1908]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarmops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FC05F8EEFBC1F8C5" box="[984,1100,1885,1908]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Sesarmops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FB82F8EEFB41F8C5" baseAuthorityName="H. Milne Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1853" box="[1119,1228,1885,1908]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Orisarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sinense">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FB82F8EEFB41F8C5" box="[1119,1228,1885,1908]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">S. sinense</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FADBF8EEFA2FF8C5" baseAuthorityName="De Haan" baseAuthorityYear="1835" box="[1286,1442,1884,1908]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarmops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="intermedius">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FADBF8EEFA2FF8C5" box="[1286,1442,1884,1908]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">S. intermedius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) and one from
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FC19F8CFFBE6F825" authorityName=", Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" box="[964,1131,1916,1940]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FC19F8CFFBE6F825" box="[964,1131,1916,1940]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Pseudosesarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FBA1F8CEFB7AF825" authorityName="Soh" authorityYear="1978" box="[1148,1271,1916,1940]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="patshuni">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FBA1F8CEFB7AF825" box="[1148,1271,1916,1940]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">P. patshuni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). The characters noted above for
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FC31F82EFBEAF805" baseAuthorityName="H. Milne Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1853" box="[1004,1127,1948,1972]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" sensu="stricto" species="dehaani">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FC31F82EFBEAF805" box="[1004,1127,1948,1972]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. dehaani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="E8FBFB29FFE4BA24FBAFF82EFB3EF805" box="[1138,1203,1949,1972]" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" sensu="stricto">s. str.</taxonomicNameLabel>
,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FB1EF82EFAC2F805" box="[1219,1359,1948,1972]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="neglectus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FB1EF82EFAC2F805" box="[1219,1359,1948,1972]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. neglectus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FA4EF82EFC0DF865" authorityName="Komai &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2013" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magnus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FA4EF82EFC0DF865" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">C. magnus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
also apply to them, including the form of the vulva (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE4BA24FCE8F86FFC37F844" box="[821,954,2012,2037]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="72.[136,171,1898,1920]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,211,1882]" captionTargetId="figure-8@72.[136,1474,211,1882]" captionTargetPageId="72" captionText="Fig. 43. Vulva. A, Chiromantes haematocheir, female (27.0 × 23.7 mm) (ZRC 2002.0225), Japan; B, Orisarma dehaani, female (20.4 × 17.8 mm) (ZRC 2012.0057), Japan; C, Orisarma intermedium, female (31.8 × 28.4 mm) (ZRC 2013.0140), Japan; D, Orisarma patshuni, female (20.5 × 18.1 mm) (ZRC 2014.0817), Hong Kong; E, Danarma obtusifrons, female (15.7 × 11.6 mm) (UF-FLMNH 14837), Hawaii; F, Danarma eurymerus, paratype ovigerous female (18.0 × 13.4 mm) (ZRC 2012.0956), Taiwan; G, Cristarma eulimene, female (15.6 × 12.8 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.3), Mozambique; H, Cristarma ortmanni, female (13.1 × 10.2 mm) (ZRC 2000.1783), Kenya; I, Trapezarma angolense, female (18.2 × 14.3 mm) (ZRC 2015.0297), Cameroon; J, Platychirarma buettikoferi, ovigerous female (11.3 × 9.1 mm) (ZRC 2015.0298), Cameroon." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351373" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351373/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Fig. 43C, D</figureCitation>
), but the epigastric and postorbital cristae are less prominently rounded and the grooves more narrow in
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FCF0F7AEFC70F785" box="[813,1021,2077,2100]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarmops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sinensis">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FCF0F7AEFC70F785" box="[813,1021,2077,2100]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Sesarmops sinensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE4BA24FBEAF7AEFB5FF785" baseAuthorityName="De Haan" baseAuthorityYear="1835" box="[1079,1234,2076,2100]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Sesarmops" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="5" pageNumber="896" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="intermedius">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE4BA24FBEAF7AEFB5FF785" box="[1079,1234,2076,2100]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">S. intermedius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE4BA24FB3DF7AFFACAF784" box="[1248,1351,2076,2101]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="8.[136,171,1926,1948]" captionTargetBox="[136,1476,212,1910]" captionTargetId="figure-7@8.[136,1476,212,1910]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="Fig. 2. Overall habitus. A, Orisarma intermedium, lectotype male (23.0 × 19.9 mm) (RMNH-D165), Japan; B, O. intermedium, male (27.1 × 25.2 mm) (ZRC 1970.2.23.6), Japan; C, O. intermedium, male (27.0 × 25.0 mm) (ZRC 2013.0140), Kyushu, Japan; D, O. intermedium, male (29.5 × 26.5 mm) (ZRC 2001.0034), Pingtung, Taiwan; E, O. intermedium, male (34.2 × 30.7 mm) (ZRC 2001.0034), Pingtung, Taiwan; F, O. intermedium, male (37.5 × 35.8 mm) (ZRC 2014.0265), Kumejima Island, Japan; G, O. sinense, lectotype male (19.0 × 16.6 mm) (MNHN-BP3635a), China; H, O. sinense, paralectotype female (18.8 × 16.9 mm) (MNHN-BP3635b), China; I, O. sinense, male (30.7 × 26.7 mm) (ZRC 2010.0421), China; J, Orisarma sinense, male (29.6 × 25.4 mm) (ZRC 1998.1204), Shanghai, China." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351299" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351299/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="896">Fig. 2I, J</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="89A6C9CBFFE7BA27FF5AFF0FFBCEFBA4" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="C1039A40FFE7BA27FF5AFF0FFD48FC45" blockId="6.[135,775,188,1013]" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">
The East African
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FE91FF0EFE40FF65" box="[332,461,188,212]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="eulimene">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FE91FF0EFE40FF65" box="[332,461,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">C. eulimene</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FDDAFF0EFD07FF65" baseAuthorityName="Crosnier" baseAuthorityYear="1965" box="[519,650,189,212]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Cristarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ortmanni">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FDDAFF0EFD07FF65" box="[519,650,189,212]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">C. ortmanni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are unique in that the dorsal margin of the male palm has a distinct oblique pectinated ridge and the dorsal margin of the chelar dactylus has differentiated granules, presumably for stridulation. These characters are consistent and are here considered to be generically significant. To this effect, we propose to establish a new genus,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FE26FECEFDE4FE25" authorityName="Schubart &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2020" box="[507,617,381,404]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Cristarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FE26FECEFDE4FE25" box="[507,617,381,404]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Cristarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, for these two species. With regard to these two characters,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FDA0FE2EFD66FE05" authorityName="Schubart &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2020" box="[637,747,413,436]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Cristarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FDA0FE2EFD66FE05" box="[637,747,413,436]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Cristarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is similar to the two known species of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FDD5FE0FFF32FE44" authority="Serene &amp; Soh, 1970" authorityName="Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Selatium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FDD5FE0FFDE8FE65" box="[520,613,444,468]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Selatium</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE7BA27FDB1FE0FFF32FE44" author="Serene &amp; Soh" firstAuthor="Serene" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" pagination="387 - 416" refId="ref76461" refString="Serene R &amp; Soh CL (1970) New IndoPacific genera allied to Sesarma Say 1877 (Brachyura, Decapoda, Crustacea). Treubia, 27: 387 - 416." type="journal article" year="1970">Serène &amp; Soh, 1970</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, viz.
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FF27FE6EFD95FE44" authority="(De Man, 1887)" baseAuthorityName="De Man" baseAuthorityYear="1887" box="[250,536,476,501]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Selatium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brockii">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FF27FE6EFEEEFE45" box="[250,355,476,500]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">S. brockii</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE7BA27FEAFFE6EFD9CFE44" author="De Man" box="[370,529,477,501]" firstAuthor="De Man" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" pagination="639 - 722" refId="ref72089" refString="Man JG De (1887) Ubersicht der Indopacifischen Arten der Gattung Sesarma Say nebst einer Kritik der von W. Hess und E. Nauck in den Jahren 1865 und 1880 beschrieben Decapoden. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abtheilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 2: 639 - 722." type="journal article" year="1887">De Man, 1887</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FD93FE6EFEF5FDA5" authority="(A. Milne-Edwards, 1869)" baseAuthorityName="A. Milne-Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1869" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Selatium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="elongatum">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FD93FE6EFD56FE45" box="[590,731,476,500]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">S. elongatum</emphasis>
(A.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE7BA27FF5AFE4FFEFCFDA5" author="Milne-Edwards" box="[135,369,508,532]" firstAuthor="Milne-Edwards" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" pagination="25 - 31" refId="ref72689" refString="Milne-Edwards A (1869) Notes sur quelques nouvelles especes du genre Sesarma (Say). Nouvelle Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 5: 25 - 31." type="journal article" year="1869">Milne-Edwards, 1869</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
(cf.
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE7BA27FE75FE4FFD0AFDA4" author="Schubart" box="[424,647,508,533]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Schubart" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" pagination="1 - 29" part="2154" refId="ref76194" refString="Schubart CD, Liu H-C &amp; Ng PKL (2009) Revision of Selatium Serene &amp; Soh, 1970 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), with description of a new genus and two new species. Zootaxa, 2154: 1 - 29." title="Revision of Selatium Serene &amp; Soh, 1970 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), with description of a new genus and two new species" type="journal article" year="2009">Schubart et al., 2009</bibRefCitation>
).
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FD45FE4EFC8BFDA5" authorityName="Schubart &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2020" box="[664,774,509,532]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Cristarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FD45FE4EFC8BFDA5" box="[664,774,509,532]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Cristarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
can easily be distinguished from species of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FD80FDAFFD37FD85" authorityName="Serene &amp; Soh" authorityYear="1970" box="[605,698,540,564]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Selatium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FD80FDAFFD37FD85" box="[605,698,540,564]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Selatium</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in that the pectinated ridge on the male palm is markedly oblique to almost transverse in orientation (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FDC0FDEFFD29FDC4" box="[541,676,604,629]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="30.[136,171,1412,1434]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,189,1397]" captionTargetId="figure-8@30.[136,1474,189,1397]" captionTargetPageId="30" captionText="Fig. 15. Chela. A, B, Danarma eurymerus, holotype male (18.7 × 14.8 mm) (NMNS-7028002), Lanyu Island, Taiwan; C, D, Cristarma eulimene, male (22.2 × 17.2 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.2), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; E, F, Cristarma ortmanni, male (20.0 × 15.5 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.1), Inhaca Island, Mozambique. A, C, E, outer view; B, inner view; D, F, dorso-lateral view showing pectinated ridge on palm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351327" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351327/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Fig. 15D, F</figureCitation>
) (versus longitudinal), the outer lower surface of the palm has two short, smooth, submedian oblique ridges (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FDEBFD2FFD20FD04" box="[566,685,668,693]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="30.[136,171,1412,1434]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,189,1397]" captionTargetId="figure-8@30.[136,1474,189,1397]" captionTargetPageId="30" captionText="Fig. 15. Chela. A, B, Danarma eurymerus, holotype male (18.7 × 14.8 mm) (NMNS-7028002), Lanyu Island, Taiwan; C, D, Cristarma eulimene, male (22.2 × 17.2 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.2), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; E, F, Cristarma ortmanni, male (20.0 × 15.5 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.1), Inhaca Island, Mozambique. A, C, E, outer view; B, inner view; D, F, dorso-lateral view showing pectinated ridge on palm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351327" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351327/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Fig. 15C, E</figureCitation>
) (versus absent), the lateral margins of the ambulatory dactyli are not lined by dense short black setae (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FDFDFD6FFD2DFD44" box="[544,672,732,757]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="26.[136,171,1910,1932]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,199,1895]" captionTargetId="figure-8@26.[136,1474,199,1895]" captionTargetPageId="26" captionText="Fig. 13. Overall habitus. A, Danarma obtusifrons, male (17.7 × 13.2 mm) (UF-FLMNH 14837), Oahu, Hawaii; B, Danarma silus, holotype male (16.3 × 12.8 mm) (ZRC 2012.0787), Guam; C, Danarma eurymerus, holotype male (18.7 × 14.8 mm) (NMNS-7028-002), Lanyu Island, Taiwan; D, Danarma garfunkel, holotype male (17.0 × 13.0 mm) (QM), Greta Beach, Christmas Island; E, Cristarma eulimene, male (22.2 × 17.2 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.2), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; F, Cristarma ortmanni, male (20.0 × 15.5 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.1), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; G, Trapezarma angolense, neotype male (39.3 × 32.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 635), Benguella, Angola; H, Platychirarma buettikoferi, paralectotype male (10.0 × 8.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 636), Fisherman Lake, Liberia; I, Platychirarma buettikoferi, lectotype male (14.1 × 11.6 mm) (RMNH D 148), Liberia; J, Platychirarma buettikoferi, male (12.6 × 10.4 mm) (ZRC 2015.0298), Cameroon." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351323" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351323/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Fig. 13E, F</figureCitation>
), and the surfaces between the first to third ambulatory coxae have dense tufts of long setae (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FE78FCAFFDA7FC84" box="[421,554,796,821]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="34.[136,171,1517,1539]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,189,1501]" captionTargetId="figure-8@34.[136,1474,189,1501]" captionTargetPageId="34" captionText="Fig. 18. Male anterior thoracic sternum and pleon. A, Danarma obtusifrons, male (19.7 × 14.7 mm) (ZRC 2002.0220), Oahu, Hawaii; B, Danarma eurymerus, holotype male (18.7 × 14.8 mm) (NMNS-7028-002), Lanyu Island, Taiwan; C, Cristarma eulimene, male (22.2 × 17.2 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.2), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; D, Cristarma ortmanni, male (20.0 × 15.5 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.1), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; E, Trapezarma angolense, neotype male (39.3 × 32.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 635), Benguella, Angola; F, Platychirarma buettikoferi, paralectotype male (10.0 × 8.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 636), Fisherman Lake, Liberia." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351333" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351333/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Fig. 18C, D</figureCitation>
) (versus very short, scattered, or no setae). In addition, the vulva is very low, with the two sternal vulvar covers bracketing the non-projecting opening (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FF36FCCFFEE0FC24" box="[235,365,892,917]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="72.[136,171,1898,1920]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,211,1882]" captionTargetId="figure-8@72.[136,1474,211,1882]" captionTargetPageId="72" captionText="Fig. 43. Vulva. A, Chiromantes haematocheir, female (27.0 × 23.7 mm) (ZRC 2002.0225), Japan; B, Orisarma dehaani, female (20.4 × 17.8 mm) (ZRC 2012.0057), Japan; C, Orisarma intermedium, female (31.8 × 28.4 mm) (ZRC 2013.0140), Japan; D, Orisarma patshuni, female (20.5 × 18.1 mm) (ZRC 2014.0817), Hong Kong; E, Danarma obtusifrons, female (15.7 × 11.6 mm) (UF-FLMNH 14837), Hawaii; F, Danarma eurymerus, paratype ovigerous female (18.0 × 13.4 mm) (ZRC 2012.0956), Taiwan; G, Cristarma eulimene, female (15.6 × 12.8 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.3), Mozambique; H, Cristarma ortmanni, female (13.1 × 10.2 mm) (ZRC 2000.1783), Kenya; I, Trapezarma angolense, female (18.2 × 14.3 mm) (ZRC 2015.0297), Cameroon; J, Platychirarma buettikoferi, ovigerous female (11.3 × 9.1 mm) (ZRC 2015.0298), Cameroon." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351373" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351373/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Fig. 43G, H</figureCitation>
). Our molecular phylogenetic tree also shows that there is no close relationship between
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FD74FC2FFC8BFC05" box="[681,774,924,948]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Selatium</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FF6EFC0EFEADFC65" authorityName="Schubart &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2020" box="[179,288,957,980]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Cristarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FF6EFC0EFEADFC65" box="[179,288,957,980]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Cristarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
or those genera with two transverse pectinated crests, e.g.,
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FED4FC6EFE1AFC45" box="[265,407,989,1012]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Parasesarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FE12FC6EFDDBFC45" authorityName="De Man" authorityYear="1895" box="[463,598,989,1012]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Perisesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FE12FC6EFDDBFC45" box="[463,598,989,1012]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Perisesarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FDBAFC6FFD35FC45" box="[615,696,988,1012]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="91.[113,149,1757,1779]" captionTargetBox="[116,1448,352,1737]" captionTargetId="figure-15@91.[86,1475,347,1749]" captionTargetPageId="91" captionText="Fig. 59. Phylogenetic relationships among selected taxa of Sesarmidae (91 OTUs), including all representatives of Chiromantes and Pseudosesarma previous to current revision of these genera. In addition, several species of Bresedium and Sesarmops are considered, as the revision also involves some of their former members. Topology and confidence values were determined by means of a phylogenetic reconstruction based on 1,096 basepairs of mtDNA (16S-tRNALeu-ND1), conducted with MrBayes, GTR+I+G as substitution model, and Parasesarma plicatum as outgroup (midpoint rooting). Posterior probabilities were determined after 4 million generations with a burn-in of 25%. All species so far classified within Chiromantes (without obvious anterolateral teeth) are shaded in blue, whereas those species that used to be classified in Pseudosesarma (carrying at least one pair of anterolateral teeth) are shaded in yellow." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351405" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351405/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Fig. 59</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C1039A40FFE7BA27FF5AFBAFFD20F864" blockId="6.[134,775,1052,2005]" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">
The other two species endemic to Africa, but from the Atlantic coast,
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FF10FB8EFEEDFBE5" box="[205,352,1084,1108]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">C. angolensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FE44FB8EFDBEFBE5" box="[409,563,1084,1108]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">C. buettikoferi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, are referred to the new genera,
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FEC8FBEEFE1AFBC5" authorityName="Schubart &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2020" box="[277,407,1117,1140]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Trapezarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FEC8FBEEFE1AFBC5" box="[277,407,1117,1140]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Trapezarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FE0FFBEFFDE3FBC5" authorityName="Schubart &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2020" box="[466,622,1116,1140]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Platychirarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FE0FFBEFFDE3FBC5" box="[466,622,1116,1140]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Platychirarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, respectively. Like
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FF61FBCFFECEFB25" authorityName="Gistel" authorityYear="1848" box="[188,323,1148,1172]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" sensu="stricto">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FF61FBCFFECEFB25" box="[188,323,1148,1172]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Chiromantes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="E8FBFB29FFE7BA27FE94FBCEFE0CFB25" box="[329,385,1149,1172]" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" sensu="stricto">s. str.</taxonomicNameLabel>
, their epigastric and postfrontal crests are sharp and almost continuous (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FE2FFB2FFD17FB05" box="[498,666,1180,1205]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="26.[136,171,1910,1932]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,199,1895]" captionTargetId="figure-8@26.[136,1474,199,1895]" captionTargetPageId="26" captionText="Fig. 13. Overall habitus. A, Danarma obtusifrons, male (17.7 × 13.2 mm) (UF-FLMNH 14837), Oahu, Hawaii; B, Danarma silus, holotype male (16.3 × 12.8 mm) (ZRC 2012.0787), Guam; C, Danarma eurymerus, holotype male (18.7 × 14.8 mm) (NMNS-7028-002), Lanyu Island, Taiwan; D, Danarma garfunkel, holotype male (17.0 × 13.0 mm) (QM), Greta Beach, Christmas Island; E, Cristarma eulimene, male (22.2 × 17.2 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.2), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; F, Cristarma ortmanni, male (20.0 × 15.5 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.1), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; G, Trapezarma angolense, neotype male (39.3 × 32.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 635), Benguella, Angola; H, Platychirarma buettikoferi, paralectotype male (10.0 × 8.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 636), Fisherman Lake, Liberia; I, Platychirarma buettikoferi, lectotype male (14.1 × 11.6 mm) (RMNH D 148), Liberia; J, Platychirarma buettikoferi, male (12.6 × 10.4 mm) (ZRC 2015.0298), Cameroon." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351323" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351323/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Figs. 13G, H, J</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FD7AFB2EFD74FB04" box="[679,761,1181,1205]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="28.[136,171,1850,1872]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,287,1835]" captionTargetId="figure-7@28.[136,1474,287,1835]" captionTargetPageId="28" captionText="Fig. 14. Frontal view of cephalothorax. A, Danarma obtusifrons, male (17.7 × 13.2 mm) (UF-FLMNH 14837), Hawaii; B, Danarma garfunkel, holotype male (17.0 × 13.0 mm) (QM, ex ZRC 2009.0822), Christmas Island; C, D, Danarma eurymerus, holotype male (18.7 × 14.8 mm) (NMNS-7028-002), Lanyu Island, Taiwan; E, Cristarma eulimene, male (22.2 × 17.2 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.2), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; F, Cristarma ortmanni, male (20.0 × 15.5 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.1), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; G, Trapezarma angolense, neotype male (39.3 × 32.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 635), Benguella, Angola; H, Platychirarma buettikoferi, paralectotype male (10.0 × 8.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 636), Fisherman Lake, Liberia." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351325" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351325/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">14G, H</figureCitation>
), a character shared with no other group of species. Unlike the West African
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FE8CFB6EFE58FB45" box="[337,469,1244,1268]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">C. eulimene</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FDCDFB6EFD1BFB45" baseAuthorityName="Crosnier" baseAuthorityYear="1965" box="[528,662,1245,1268]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Cristarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ortmanni">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FDCDFB6EFD1BFB45" box="[528,662,1245,1268]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">C. ortmanni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
that have pectinated crests on their chelae and granules on the dactylar fingers, the chelae of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FEA8FAAEFD85FA85" baseAuthorityName="Brito Capello" baseAuthorityYear="1864" box="[373,520,1308,1332]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="angolensis">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FEA8FAAEFD85FA85" box="[373,520,1308,1332]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">C. angolensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FD9FFAAEFD52FA85" baseAuthorityName="De Man" baseAuthorityYear="1883" box="[578,735,1308,1332]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Platychirarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="buettikoferi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FD9FFAAEFD52FA85" box="[578,735,1308,1332]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">C. buettikoferi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are smooth and not specially ornamented. What is unusual about their adult male chelae is that the outer surface is gently convex to flat (including the pollex) (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FDAFFACFFD43FA25" box="[626,718,1404,1428]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="32.[136,171,1319,1341]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,189,1303]" captionTargetId="figure-8@32.[136,1474,189,1303]" captionTargetPageId="32" captionText="Fig. 16. Chela of species of Trapezarma angolense. A, B, neotype male (39.3 × 32.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 635), Benguella, Angola; CF, male (35.2 × 28.6 mm) (ZRC 2015.0297), Cameroon. A, C, outer view; D, inner view; B, E, F, dorso-lateral view." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351329" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351329/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Figs. 16</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FD01FACEFD74FA24" box="[732,761,1405,1429]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="33.[113,148,1097,1119]" captionTargetBox="[113,1451,189,1082]" captionTargetId="figure-508@33.[113,1451,189,1082]" captionTargetPageId="33" captionText="Fig. 17. Chela of species of Platychirarma buettikoferi. A, paralectotype male (10.0 × 8.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 636), Fisherman Lake, Liberia; BD, male (12.6 × 10.4 mm) (ZRC 2015.0298), Cameroon. A, outer view; B, C, dorso-lateral view; D, ventro-marginal view." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351331" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351331/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">17</figureCitation>
), being most extreme in
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FE49FA2EFDB5FA05" baseAuthorityName="De Man" baseAuthorityYear="1883" box="[404,568,1436,1460]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Platychirarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="buettikoferi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FE49FA2EFDB5FA05" box="[404,568,1436,1460]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">C. buettikoferi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The prominently flattened outer surface of the chela of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FDF0FA0EFD47FA65" baseAuthorityName="De Man" baseAuthorityYear="1883" box="[557,714,1468,1492]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Platychirarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="buettikoferi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FDF0FA0EFD47FA65" box="[557,714,1468,1492]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">C. buettikoferi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FD06FA0FFF2FFA44" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="33.[113,148,1097,1119]" captionTargetBox="[113,1451,189,1082]" captionTargetId="figure-508@33.[113,1451,189,1082]" captionTargetPageId="33" captionText="Fig. 17. Chela of species of Platychirarma buettikoferi. A, paralectotype male (10.0 × 8.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 636), Fisherman Lake, Liberia; BD, male (12.6 × 10.4 mm) (ZRC 2015.0298), Cameroon. A, outer view; B, C, dorso-lateral view; D, ventro-marginal view." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351331" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351331/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Fig. 17</figureCitation>
) is a character shared only with
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FE20FA6FFC8BFA45" baseAuthorityName="A. Milne-Edwards" baseAuthorityYear="1869" box="[509,774,1500,1524]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Pseudosesarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bocourti">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FE20FA6FFC8BFA45" box="[509,774,1500,1524]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Pseudosesarma bocourti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FF65FA4EFEE4F9A5" baseAuthorityName="Targioni Tozzetti" baseAuthorityYear="1877" box="[184,361,1532,1556]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Contusarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cheirogonum">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FF65FA4EFEE4F9A5" box="[184,361,1532,1556]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">C. cheirogonum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from Southeast Asia (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FDB4FA4FFD36F9A4" box="[617,699,1532,1557]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="50.[136,171,1012,1034]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,189,997]" captionTargetId="figure-499@50.[136,1474,189,997]" captionTargetPageId="50" captionText="Fig. 28. Chela of Contusarma. A, C. bocourti, lectotype male (24.0 × 27.2 mm) (MNHN D-10965), Bangkok, Thailand; B, C, C. bocourti, male (25.3 × 23.3 mm) (ZRC 2000.0952), Bangkok, Thailand; D, C. cheirogonum, neotype male (24.5 × 21.5 mm) (ZRC 1995.225), Bako National Park, Sarawak. A, B, D, outer view; C, ventro-marginal view." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351347" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351347/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Fig. 28</figureCitation>
) (both referred to a new genus, see later). The carapaces of
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FD30F9AEFF74F9E5" baseAuthorityName="Brito Capello" baseAuthorityYear="1864" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Chiromantes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="angolensis">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FD30F9AEFF74F9E5" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">C. angolensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FEF0F98EFE4AF9E5" baseAuthorityName="De Man" baseAuthorityYear="1883" box="[301,455,1596,1620]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Platychirarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="buettikoferi">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FEF0F98EFE4AF9E5" box="[301,455,1596,1620]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">C. buettikoferi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are quite distinct with a more trapezoidal appearance, with a wider frontal margin and strongly converging lateral margins towards the posterior carapace margin (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FE98F92FFE6DF904" box="[325,480,1692,1717]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="26.[136,171,1910,1932]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,199,1895]" captionTargetId="figure-8@26.[136,1474,199,1895]" captionTargetPageId="26" captionText="Fig. 13. Overall habitus. A, Danarma obtusifrons, male (17.7 × 13.2 mm) (UF-FLMNH 14837), Oahu, Hawaii; B, Danarma silus, holotype male (16.3 × 12.8 mm) (ZRC 2012.0787), Guam; C, Danarma eurymerus, holotype male (18.7 × 14.8 mm) (NMNS-7028-002), Lanyu Island, Taiwan; D, Danarma garfunkel, holotype male (17.0 × 13.0 mm) (QM), Greta Beach, Christmas Island; E, Cristarma eulimene, male (22.2 × 17.2 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.2), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; F, Cristarma ortmanni, male (20.0 × 15.5 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.1), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; G, Trapezarma angolense, neotype male (39.3 × 32.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 635), Benguella, Angola; H, Platychirarma buettikoferi, paralectotype male (10.0 × 8.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 636), Fisherman Lake, Liberia; I, Platychirarma buettikoferi, lectotype male (14.1 × 11.6 mm) (RMNH D 148), Liberia; J, Platychirarma buettikoferi, male (12.6 × 10.4 mm) (ZRC 2015.0298), Cameroon." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351323" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351323/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Fig. 13G, H, J</figureCitation>
). While the two species are genetically defined as sister species (despite long individual branches,
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FF2BF96FFECAF945" box="[246,327,1756,1780]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="91.[113,149,1757,1779]" captionTargetBox="[116,1448,352,1737]" captionTargetId="figure-15@91.[86,1475,347,1749]" captionTargetPageId="91" captionText="Fig. 59. Phylogenetic relationships among selected taxa of Sesarmidae (91 OTUs), including all representatives of Chiromantes and Pseudosesarma previous to current revision of these genera. In addition, several species of Bresedium and Sesarmops are considered, as the revision also involves some of their former members. Topology and confidence values were determined by means of a phylogenetic reconstruction based on 1,096 basepairs of mtDNA (16S-tRNALeu-ND1), conducted with MrBayes, GTR+I+G as substitution model, and Parasesarma plicatum as outgroup (midpoint rooting). Posterior probabilities were determined after 4 million generations with a burn-in of 25%. All species so far classified within Chiromantes (without obvious anterolateral teeth) are shaded in blue, whereas those species that used to be classified in Pseudosesarma (carrying at least one pair of anterolateral teeth) are shaded in yellow." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351405" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351405/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Fig. 59</figureCitation>
), the suite of cheliped, male pleonal and G1 characters argue against including them in the same genus (see discussion under
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FE6EF8AEFDB8F885" box="[435,565,1821,1844]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Trapezarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). This gains further support from the very differently shaped vulvae, those of
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FF5AF8EEFE9DF8C5" box="[135,272,1885,1908]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Trapezarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
widely spaced and the projecting opening directed obliquely posteriorly (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FE04F8CFFDBEF824" box="[473,563,1916,1941]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="72.[136,171,1898,1920]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,211,1882]" captionTargetId="figure-8@72.[136,1474,211,1882]" captionTargetPageId="72" captionText="Fig. 43. Vulva. A, Chiromantes haematocheir, female (27.0 × 23.7 mm) (ZRC 2002.0225), Japan; B, Orisarma dehaani, female (20.4 × 17.8 mm) (ZRC 2012.0057), Japan; C, Orisarma intermedium, female (31.8 × 28.4 mm) (ZRC 2013.0140), Japan; D, Orisarma patshuni, female (20.5 × 18.1 mm) (ZRC 2014.0817), Hong Kong; E, Danarma obtusifrons, female (15.7 × 11.6 mm) (UF-FLMNH 14837), Hawaii; F, Danarma eurymerus, paratype ovigerous female (18.0 × 13.4 mm) (ZRC 2012.0956), Taiwan; G, Cristarma eulimene, female (15.6 × 12.8 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.3), Mozambique; H, Cristarma ortmanni, female (13.1 × 10.2 mm) (ZRC 2000.1783), Kenya; I, Trapezarma angolense, female (18.2 × 14.3 mm) (ZRC 2015.0297), Cameroon; J, Platychirarma buettikoferi, ovigerous female (11.3 × 9.1 mm) (ZRC 2015.0298), Cameroon." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351373" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351373/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Fig. 43I</figureCitation>
), while the ones of
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FF5AF82FFEAEF805" box="[135,291,1948,1972]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Platychirarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are closer together and the slightly projecting opening is directed obliquely anteriorly (
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).
</paragraph>
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<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE7BA27FF5AF84EFEF9F7A4" author="Ng &amp; Liu" box="[135,372,2044,2069]" firstAuthor="Ng" page="230" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" pagination="228 - 237" refId="ref73911" refString="Ng PKL &amp; Liu HC (1999) The taxonomy of Sesarma tangi Rathbun, 1931 and S. stormi De Man, 1895 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae: Sesarminae), with establishment of a new genus for S. stormi. Zoological Studies, 38 (2): 228 - 237." type="journal article" year="1999">Ng &amp; Liu (1999: 230)</bibRefCitation>
had noted that the generic placement of
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FF74F7AFFE4FF785" box="[169,450,2076,2100]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Chiromantes obtusifrons</emphasis>
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should be reappraised. The trapezoidal carapace of this species is diagnostic, although it shares other characters with
<taxonomicName id="06BCE1C3FFE7BA27FBB7FF6EFB5CFF45" authority="Schubart &amp; Ng, 2020" authorityName="Schubart &amp; Ng" authorityYear="2020" box="[1130,1233,221,244]" class="Malacostraca" family="Sesarmidae" genus="Orisarma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Decapoda" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" status="gen. nov.">
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FBB7FF6EFB5CFF45" box="[1130,1233,221,244]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Orisarma</emphasis>
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,
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. However,
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FC9EFF4EFC6CFEA5" box="[835,993,252,276]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">C. obtusifrons</emphasis>
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has a peculiar frontal margin that is very broad and bends downwards so strongly that the antennae and antennules are effectively covered (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FADFFE8FFA07FEE4" box="[1282,1418,316,341]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="28.[136,171,1850,1872]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,287,1835]" captionTargetId="figure-7@28.[136,1474,287,1835]" captionTargetPageId="28" captionText="Fig. 14. Frontal view of cephalothorax. A, Danarma obtusifrons, male (17.7 × 13.2 mm) (UF-FLMNH 14837), Hawaii; B, Danarma garfunkel, holotype male (17.0 × 13.0 mm) (QM, ex ZRC 2009.0822), Christmas Island; C, D, Danarma eurymerus, holotype male (18.7 × 14.8 mm) (NMNS-7028-002), Lanyu Island, Taiwan; E, Cristarma eulimene, male (22.2 × 17.2 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.2), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; F, Cristarma ortmanni, male (20.0 × 15.5 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.1), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; G, Trapezarma angolense, neotype male (39.3 × 32.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 635), Benguella, Angola; H, Platychirarma buettikoferi, paralectotype male (10.0 × 8.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 636), Fisherman Lake, Liberia." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351325" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351325/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Fig. 14AD</figureCitation>
), the outer surface of the palm has no longitudinal ridge (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FA4BFEEFFCF9FE25" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="30.[136,171,1412,1434]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,189,1397]" captionTargetId="figure-8@30.[136,1474,189,1397]" captionTargetPageId="30" captionText="Fig. 15. Chela. A, B, Danarma eurymerus, holotype male (18.7 × 14.8 mm) (NMNS-7028002), Lanyu Island, Taiwan; C, D, Cristarma eulimene, male (22.2 × 17.2 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.2), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; E, F, Cristarma ortmanni, male (20.0 × 15.5 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.1), Inhaca Island, Mozambique. A, C, E, outer view; B, inner view; D, F, dorso-lateral view showing pectinated ridge on palm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351327" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351327/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Fig. 15A</figureCitation>
), and the surfaces between the first to third ambulatory coxae have distinct dense tufts of long setae (
<figureCitation id="598786C5FFE7BA27FAEBFE2FFA34FE04" box="[1334,1465,412,437]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="34.[136,171,1517,1539]" captionTargetBox="[136,1474,189,1501]" captionTargetId="figure-8@34.[136,1474,189,1501]" captionTargetPageId="34" captionText="Fig. 18. Male anterior thoracic sternum and pleon. A, Danarma obtusifrons, male (19.7 × 14.7 mm) (ZRC 2002.0220), Oahu, Hawaii; B, Danarma eurymerus, holotype male (18.7 × 14.8 mm) (NMNS-7028-002), Lanyu Island, Taiwan; C, Cristarma eulimene, male (22.2 × 17.2 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.2), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; D, Cristarma ortmanni, male (20.0 × 15.5 mm) (ZRC 1968.1.22.1), Inhaca Island, Mozambique; E, Trapezarma angolense, neotype male (39.3 × 32.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 635), Benguella, Angola; F, Platychirarma buettikoferi, paralectotype male (10.0 × 8.7 mm) (SMF-ZMG 636), Fisherman Lake, Liberia." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5351333" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5351333/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Fig. 18A, B</figureCitation>
) (a character otherwise only present in
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FB30FE0EFAE2FE65" box="[1261,1391,444,468]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">C. eulimene</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FA74FE0EFC28FE45" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">C. ortmanni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). In addition, the vulvae have a totally different structure, with the sternal vulvar covers being plate-like and the opening not projecting (
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). Davie &amp;
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE7BA27FA7CFDAEFC04FDE4" author="Ng" firstAuthor="Ng" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" pagination="8 - 19" refId="ref73674" refString="Ng PKL &amp; Davie PJF (2012) Christmas Island - a very crabby history. In: Orchard M (ed.) Crabs of Christmas Island. Christmas Island Natural History Association. Pp. 8 - 19." type="book chapter" year="2012">Ng (2012)</bibRefCitation>
re-examined
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FBC5FD8FFA93FDE5" box="[1048,1310,572,596]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Chiromantes obtusifrons</emphasis>
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and recognised four new closely allied species from the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific, and also commented on their generic status. All five species are here referred to a new genus,
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FA88FD2EFA36FD05" box="[1365,1467,669,692]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Danarma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<paragraph id="C1039A40FFE7BA27FC9EFD6EFC67FC05" blockId="6.[835,1474,732,949]" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE7BA27FC9EFD6EFC77FD44" author="Ng &amp; Liu" box="[835,1018,732,757]" firstAuthor="Ng" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" pagination="228 - 237" refId="ref73911" refString="Ng PKL &amp; Liu HC (1999) The taxonomy of Sesarma tangi Rathbun, 1931 and S. stormi De Man, 1895 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae: Sesarminae), with establishment of a new genus for S. stormi. Zoological Studies, 38 (2): 228 - 237." type="journal article" year="1999">Ng &amp; Liu (1999)</bibRefCitation>
had already described
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FB2CFD6EFAC0FD45" box="[1265,1357,733,756]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Sesarma</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FA80FD6EFA34FD45" box="[1373,1465,733,756]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Sesarma</emphasis>
)
<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FC9EFD4EFC07FCA5" box="[835,906,765,788]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">stormi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE7BA27FC49FD4EFBB0FCA5" author="De Man" box="[916,1085,764,788]" firstAuthor="De Man" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" pagination="75 - 218" refId="ref72333" refString="Man JG De (1895) Bericht uber die von Herrn Schiffscaptan Storm zu Atjeh, an den westlichen Kusten von Malakka, Borneo und Celebes sowie in der JavaSee gesammelten Decapoden und Stomatopoden. Zweiter Theil. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abtheilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere, 9: 75 - 218." type="journal article" year="1895">De Man, 1895</bibRefCitation>
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, in detail and explained at length why it should be placed in its own genus
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FACEFCAFFAF4FC85" box="[1299,1401,796,820]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Stelgistra</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE7BA27FA5EFCAEFC39FCE4" author="Ng &amp; Liu" firstAuthor="Ng" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" pagination="228 - 237" refId="ref73911" refString="Ng PKL &amp; Liu HC (1999) The taxonomy of Sesarma tangi Rathbun, 1931 and S. stormi De Man, 1895 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae: Sesarminae), with establishment of a new genus for S. stormi. Zoological Studies, 38 (2): 228 - 237." type="journal article" year="1999">Ng &amp; Liu, 1999</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. There is no need to elaborate here, as all the characters discussed then are still valid in defining
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FA88FCEFFA36FCC5" box="[1365,1467,860,884]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Stelgistra</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis id="F3C84652FFE7BA27FC9EFCCFFC7BFC25" box="[835,1014,892,916]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">Stelgistra stormi</emphasis>
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has since been found in
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(
<bibRefCitation id="A52DE7B1FFE7BA27FA86FCCFFC53FC05" author="Paulay" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Paulay" page="508" pageId="6" pageNumber="897" pagination="456 - 513" refId="ref74719" refString="Paulay G, Kropp R, Ng PKL &amp; Eldredge LG (2003) The crustaceans and pycnogonids of the Mariana Islands. Micronesica, 35 - 36: 456 - 513." type="journal article" year="2003">Paulay et al., 2003: 508</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C1039A40FFE7BA27FC9EFC6FFBCEFBA4" blockId="6.[835,1474,988,1045]" pageId="6" pageNumber="897">
The revised classification of the above-discussed species is summarised in
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.
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