Huang Chao, Shih Hsi-Te, Ahyong Shane T
Australian Museum Research Institute; 1 William St; Sydney NSW 2010; Australia.
Department of Life Science and Global Change Biology Research Center; National Chung Hsing University; 250; Kuo Kuang Road; Taichung 402; Taiwan; Republic of China.
Zootaxa. 2024 Jul 4;5476(1):166-176. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5476.1.16.
A new miniature species of freshwater crab from the genus Tiwaripotamon Bott, 1970 (Potamidae), is described from a montane karst area in southern Napo, at the China-Vietnam border. It is the twelfth known species of the genus, and is also the smallest known, with the largest adult specimen observed barely exceeding 20 mm in carapace width. Apart from the small size, features of the eyes, carapace and ambulatory legs further set Tiwaripotamon keeae sp. nov. apart from its congeners. Pairwise genetic distances of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene also support it as a distinct species.
描述了一种来自1970年蒂瓦里溪蟹属(Potamidae)的新型小型淡水蟹,该蟹发现于中国-越南边境的纳波南部山区喀斯特地区。它是该属已知的第12个物种,也是已知最小的物种,观察到的最大成年标本的头胸甲宽度 barely 超过20毫米。除体型小外,眼睛、头胸甲和步足的特征进一步使基氏蒂瓦里溪蟹(Tiwaripotamon keeae sp. nov.)与其同属物种区分开来。线粒体细胞色素氧化酶亚基I(COI)基因的成对遗传距离也支持它是一个独特的物种。 (注:原文中“barely”翻译为“勉强,仅仅,几乎不”,此处翻译为“barely”是因为不确定其准确含义,保留原文以便根据实际情况准确理解。)