Teretamon Yeo and Ng 2007
Creators
- 1. Zoological Survey of India, Fire Proof Spirit Building, 27 Jawahar Lal Nehru Road, Kolkata - 700 016, West Bengal, India; Email: santanuzsi @ gmail. com
- 2. Zoological Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Akurdi, Pune - 411 044, Maharashtra, India; Email: Sameer _ pati @ yahoo. co. in
Description
Key to the species of Teretamon Yeo and Ng, 2007
1. Eyestalk subconical or conical; G1 terminal segment with relatively low dorsal flap …................................... 2
– Eyestalk cylindrical; G1 terminal segment with relatively high dorsal flap ….......................................... 3
2. Cornea relatively large; carpal subdistal spine on chelipeds relatively broad; male telson relatively broad, proximal width ca. 1.5 times medial length; G1 terminal segment distinctly narrow distally, with acute tip …........................ T. indicum (INDIA: Mizoram)
– Cornea relatively small; carpal subdistal spine on chelipeds relatively narrow; male telson relatively narrow, proximal width ca. 1.1 times medial length; G1 terminal segment gradually narrow distally, with blunt tip …................... T. spelaeum (INDIA: Meghalaya)
3. Eye relatively small as compared to orbital space; male telson with gently concave lateral margins G1 terminal segment with strongly convex, semicircular dorsal flap...….................................................. T. kapota sp. nov. (INDIA: Arunachal Pradesh)
– Eye relatively large as compared to orbital space; male telson with straight lateral margins; G1 terminal segment with triangular to broadly triangular dorsal flap …............................................................................... 4
4. Male pleonal somite 6 trapezoidal, with strongly converging lateral margins; G1 terminal segment with triangular dorsal flap, tip straight........................ T. adiatretum (INDIA: Dafla Hills bordering western Arunachal Pradesh and Assam; MYANMAR)
– Male pleonal somite 6 almost rectangular, with gently converging lateral margins; G1 terminal segment with broadly triangular dorsal flap, tip gently upcurved …............................................................................. T. kempi (INDIA: Arunachal Pradesh)
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Potamidae
- Genus
- Teretamon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Decapoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Yeo and Ng
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Teretamon and, 2007 sec. Mitra & Pati, 2021
References
- Yeo, D. C. J. and Ng, P. K. L. 2007. On the genus " Potamon " and allies in Indochina (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae). Raffles Bull. Zool., Suppl. No., 16: 273 - 308.