Description of two new species of the genus Türkay & Dai, 1997 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae), from southern China.

This study describes two new species of freshwater crab of the genus Türkay & Dai, 1997 from southern China, from Guangdong Province and from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The two new species can be differentiated from congeners by characters derived from the shape of the epibranchial tooth, external orbital angle, cheliped proportions and structure of the male first gonopod. The present study brings the number of species to seven. We used the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene for a molecular analysis and the results are consistent with the morphological features that support the recognition of two new taxa.