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Five new records of Xanthidae (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Hainan Island, China

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Five new records of the family Xanthidae are reported from China: Hypocolpus haanii Rathbun, 1909, Neoliomera variolosa (A. Milne-Edwards, 1873), Leptodius australis Ward, 1936, L. davaoensis Ward, 1941, and Xanthias joanneae Mendoza, 2013. The specimens were collected from Hainan Island and deposited in the Marine Biological Museum, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Diagnosis based on observation, photographs, line drawings, and some taxonomic discussions are provided.

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The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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Acknowledgment

The authors are thankful to Junlong ZHANG, Yunhao PAN, and Fei MENG for their significant help in collecting materials. We also thank Xu ZHANG and Fei MENG for providing color photographs of living crabs used in this paper.

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  1. Laboratory of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phytogeny, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Ziming Yuan, Zhongli Sha & Wei Jiang

  2. Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237, China

    Zhongli Sha

  3. Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Zhongli Sha

  4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Ziming Yuan

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Supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2018YFD0900804) and the National Science & Technology Fundamental Resources Investigation Program of China (No. 2018FY10010006)

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Yuan, Z., Sha, Z. & Jiang, W. Five new records of Xanthidae (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Hainan Island, China. J. Ocean. Limnol. 40, 296–308 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-021-0344-2

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