학술논문
Taxonomy of the two nominal species of the deep-sea clawed lobsters Nephropsis serrataMacpherson, 1993 and N. hamadaiWatabe & Ikeda, 1994 (Decapoda: Astacidea: Nephropidae)
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Article
Source
The Journal of Crustacean Biology; June 2024, Vol. 44 Issue: 2
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02780372; 1937240X
Abstract
The deep-sea clawed lobster Nephropsis hamadaiWatabe & Ikeda, 1994, described from Japan, has been suspected to be a synonym of Nephropsis serrataMacpherson, 1993, recorded from Australia (type locality) to Taiwan. The availability of recently collected material from Japan referred to N. hamadaiallowed detailed morphological and molecular comparisons of topotypic specimens of N. serrataand N. hamadai.Re-examination of the holotype of N. serratarevealed that the major difference proposed for separating N. hamadaifrom N. serratawas based on an error in the original description of the latter species. As there are very low genetic divergences and no morphological differences between the Australian and Japanese materials referable to N. serrataand N. hamadai, these two names are now confirmed to be synonyms.