Nanogalathea raymondi is a species of squat lobster from the Bay of Bengal.[3] It is the only species in the genus Nanogalathea.[4] It can be distinguished from other squat lobsters by the lack of any teeth along the edge of the rostrum. The specific epithet raymondi commemorates the carcinologist Raymond B. Manning.[3]

Nanogalathea raymondi
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Nanogalathea

Tirmizi & Javed, 1980 [1]
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N. raymondi
Binomial name
Nanogalathea raymondi
Tirmizi & Javed, 1980 [2]

References edit

  1. ^ Enrique Macpherson (2009). "Nanogalathea Tirmizi & Javed, 1980". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
  2. ^ Enrique Macpherson (2009). "Nanogalathea raymondi Tirmizi & Javed, 1980". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
  3. ^ a b Nasima M. Tirmizi & Waquar Javed (1980). "Nanogalathea raymondi, a new genus and species of Galatheidae (Decapoda, Anomura) from the Bay of Bengal". Crustaceana. 38 (2): 127–130. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.570.4631. doi:10.1163/156854080X00553. JSTOR 20103491.
  4. ^ Keiji Baba; Enrique Macpherson; Gary C. B. Poore; Shane T. Ahyong; Adriana Bermudez; Patricia Cabezas; Chia-Wei Lin; Martha Nizinski; Celso Rodrigues; Kareen E. Schnabel (2008). "Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura — families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1905: 1–220. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1905.1.1.

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