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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 Ng, 2002 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Karstama Davie & Ng, 2007 | |
Karstarma is a genus of karst-dwelling crabs formerly included in Sesarmoides.
Description
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.
Ecology & biogeography
All species in the genus Karstarma are typically found in anchialine pools across the Indo-Pacific.
Taxonomy
The genus name Karstarma is derived from the word karst, in arbitrary combination with the genus name Sesarma. It has been frequently misspelt Karstama, including in the original description.
In the original description of the genus, 12 species were included. Three species have since been added. 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 malang Wowor & Ng, 2018
- 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 umbra Ng, 2020
- Karstarma vulcan Poupin, Crestey & Le Guelte, 2018
- Karstarma waigeo Wowor & Ng, 2009
References
- 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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| Karstarma | |