105
Views
16
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

A new species of freshwater crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Dongyin Island, Matsu, Taiwan, defined by morphological and molecular characters, with notes on its biogeography

, &
Pages 2901-2911 | Accepted 06 Jun 2005, Published online: 19 Aug 2006

References

  • Boggs , S. J. , Wang , W‐C. , Lewis , F. S. and Chen , J‐C. 1979 . Sediment properties and water characteristics of the Taiwan Shelf and Slope. . Acta Oceanographica Taiwanica , 10 : 10 – 49 .
  • Bott , R. 1967 . Potamiden aus Ost‐Asien (Parapotamon De Man, Sinopotamon n. gen., Candidiopotamon n. gen., Geothelphusa Stimpson) (Crustacea, Decapoda). . Senckenbergiana Biologica , 48 : 203 – 220 .
  • Bott , R. 1968 . Potamiden aus Sud‐Asien (Crustacea, Decapoda). . Senckenbergiana Biologica , 49 : 119 – 130 .
  • Cheng , Y‐Z. , Yang , W‐C. , Zhong , Y‐H. and Li , L. 2003 . A new species of the genus Nanhaipotamon (Decapoda: Potamidae). . Journal of Xiamen University (Natural Science) , 42 : 676 – 678 . (Chi)
  • Crandall , K. A. and Fitzpatrick , J. F. J. 1996 . Crayfish molecular systematics: using a combination of procedures to estimate phylogeny. . Systematic Biology , 45 : 1 – 26 .
  • Dai , A‐Y. 1997 . A revision of freshwater crabs of the genus Nanhaipotamon Bott, 1968 from China (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae). . The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology , 45 : 209 – 235 .
  • Dai , A‐Y. 1999 . “ Fauna Sinica. Arthropoda: Crustacea: Malacostraca: Decapoda: Parathelphusidae, Potamidae. ” . 501 Beijing : Science Press . 30 plates. (Chi with Eng abstract)
  • Hall , T. A. 2001 . “ BioEdit: a user‐friendly biological sequence alignment editor and analysis, version 5.09. ” . Raleigh : North Carolina State University, Department of Microbiology .
  • Kambhampati , S. 1995 . A phylogeny of cockroaches and related insects based on DNA sequence of mitochondrial ribosomal RNA genes. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U S A , 92 : 2017 – 2020 .
  • Kimura , M. 1980 . A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences. . Journal of Molecular Evolution , 16 : 111 – 120 .
  • Miura , T. , Roisin , Y. and Matsumoto , T. 2000 . Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the nasute termite genus Nasutitermes (Isoptera: Termitidae) in the Pacific Tropics. . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution , 17 : 1 – 10 .
  • Ng , P. K. L. 2000 . A.‐Y. Dai, 1999: Fauna Sinica. Arthropoda: Crustacea: Malacostraca: Decapoda: Parathelphusidae, Potamidae [book review]. . Crustaceana , 73 : 249 – 251 .
  • Ng , P. K. L. , Wang , C‐H. , Ho , P‐H. and Shih , H‐T. 2001 . An annotated checklist of brachyuran crabs from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda). . National Taiwan Museum Special Publication Series , 11 : 1 – 86 .
  • Parisi , B. 1916 . I decapodi giapponesi del Museo di Milano. IV. Cyclometopa. . Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali , 55 : 153 – 190 .
  • Shen , C‐J. 1940 . Four new species of Brachyura from Chinese seas. . Journal of the Hong Kong Fisheries Research Station , 1 : 255 – 262 .
  • Shih , H‐T. , Ng , P. K. L. and Chang , H‐W. 2004 . Systematics of the genus Geothelphusa (Crustacea: Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamidae) from southern Taiwan: a molecular appraisal. . Zoological Studies , 43 : 519 – 526 .
  • Shy , J‐Y. , Ng , P. K. L. and Yu , H‐P. 1994 . Crabs of the genus Geothelphusa Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Taiwan, with descriptions of 25 new species. . The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology , 42 : 781 – 846 .
  • Shy , J‐Y. and Yu , H‐P. 1999 . “ Freshwater crabs of Taiwan. ” . Kaohsiung (Taiwan) : National Museum of Marine Biology/Aquarium . (Chi)
  • Stimpson , W. 1858 . Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit W. Stimpson. Pars VII. Crustacea Anomoura. . Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia , 10 : 225 – 252 .
  • Swofford , D. L. 2001 . “ PAUP: phylogenetic analysis using parsimony (and other methods), version 4.0b8. ” . Sunderland (MA) : Sinauer Associates .
  • Thompson , J. D. , Higgins , D. G. and Gibson , T. J. 1994 . CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. . Nucleic Acids Research , 22 : 4673 – 4680 .
  • Tong , J. G. , Chan , T‐Y. and Chu , K. H. 2000 . A preliminary phylogenetic analysis of Metapenaeopsis (Decapoda: Penaeidae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences of selected species from the Indo West Pacific. . Journal of Crustacean Biology , 20 : 541 – 549 .
  • Van de Peer , Y. and De Wachter , R. 1997 . Construction of evolutionary distance trees with TREECON for Windows: accounting for variation in nucleotide substitution rate among sites. . Computer Applications in the Biosciences , 13 : 227 – 230 .
  • Yoshigou , H. 1999 . Potamidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) of Japan. . Hibakagaku , 191 : 17 – 26 . (Jpn)

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.