Karstarma is a genus of karst-dwelling crabs formerly included in Sesarmoides.
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| Karstarma ultrapes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Sesarmidae |
| Genus: | Karstarma Davie & Ng, 2007 |
| Type species | |
| Karstarma boholano [1] Ng, 2002
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| Synonyms [2] | |
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Karstama Davie & Ng, 2007 | |
Description edit
Karstarma is distinguished from the closely related Sesarmoides by the lack of a stridulatory structure on the cheliped which is present in the latter genus.[3]
Ecology & biogeography edit
All species in the genus Karstarma are typically found in anchialine pools[3] across the Indo-Pacific.[2]
Taxonomy edit
The genus name Karstarma is derived from the word karst, in arbitrary combination with the genus name Sesarma.[3] It has been frequently misspelt Karstama, including in the original description.[2]
In the original description of the genus, 12 species were included.[3] Three species have since been added.[2][4] A new species, K. vulcan, was also described from Réunion in 2018; this species is unique from all others as it is found in the western Indian Ocean rather than the eastern Indian or Pacific Oceans.
- Karstarma ardea Wowor & Ng, 2009
- Karstarma balicum (Ng, 2002)
- Karstarma boholano (Ng, 2002)
- Karstarma cerberus (Holthuis, 1946)
- Karstarma emdi (Ng & Whitten, 1995)
- Karstarma guamense (Ng, 2002)
- Karstarma jacksoni (Balss, 1934)
- Karstarma jacobsoni (Ihle, 1912)
- Karstarma loyalty (Ng, 2002)
- Karstarma microphthalmus (Naruse & Ng, 2007)
- Karstarma novabritannia (Ng, 1988)
- Karstarma philippinarum Husana et al., 2010
- Karstarma sulu (Ng, 2002)
- Karstarma ultrapes (Ng, Guinot & Iliffe, 1994)
- Karstarma waigeo Wowor & Ng, 2009
- Karstarma vulcan Poupin, Crestey & Le Guelte, 2018
References edit
- ^ Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
- ^ a b c d Daisy Wowor & Peter K. L. Ng (2009). "Two new species of sesarmid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) associated with limestone formations in West Papua, Indonesia" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2025: 21–31. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2025.1.2. S2CID 86252248.
- ^ a b c d Peter J. F. Davie & Peter K. L. Ng (2007). "A new genus for cave-dwelling crabs previously assigned to Sesarmoides (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suupl. 16: 227–231.
- ^ Daniel Edison M. Husana; Tohru Naruse & Tomoki Kase (2010). "A new species of the genus Karstarma (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from anchialine caves in the Philippines" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 58 (1): 51–55.