著者

Ng Peter K.L. 武田 正倫

出版者

国立科学博物館

雑誌

Bulletin of the National Science Museum. Series A, Zoology (ISSN:03852423)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, no.3, pp.111-116, 1993-09

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The identity of the poorly known Philippine freshwater crab, Telphusa cumingii, is clarified on re-examination of the type in the British Museum. The species, briefly described by MIERS in 1884 and never reported since, has been regarded as belonging to the superfamily Gecarcinucoidea, and allied to species like Sundathelphusa picta and Holthuisana transversa. Telphusa cumingii in fact, belongs to the superfamily Potamoidea, family Potamidae, in the recently established genus Ovitamon NG et TAKEDA, 1992.