Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand abstracts

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Deep sea Majidae (Decapoda: Brachyura) new to New Zealand with a description of Oxypleurodon wanganella sp.nov.

Richard Webber*, Bertrand Richer de Forges**

Three deep sea spider crabs (Brachyura: Majidae) from the south-west Pacific are examined: Vitjazmaia latidactyla Zarenkov, 1994 from the western Indian Ocean, is recorded from New Zealand, eastern Australia and the northern Tasman Sea; Oxypleurodon wanganella sp.nov. is described from north west of northern New Zealand; and Cyrtomaia cornuta Richer de Forges and Guinot, 1988 from New Caledonian waters, is now recorded from New Zealand.

Keywords: Majidae, Inachinae, Epialtinae, Cyrtomaia, Vitjazmaia, Oxypleurodon, Sphenocarcinus, New Zealand, Tasman Sea, Australia.

(c) Journal of The Royal Society of New Zealand,

Volume 25, Number 4, December 1995, pp 501-516

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