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SUBMITTER: Kim J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5523378 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Jeongho J Lee Wonchoel W Karanovic Ivana I
ZooKeys 20170614 680
A new species of <i>Microcharon</i> Karaman, 1934 (Asellota: Lepidocharontidae) is described from Miho-Uchihama beach, Shizuoka, Japan. <i>Microcharon tanakai</i><b>sp. n.</b> differs from its congeners by having nine simple, five penicillate setae on antennal article 6; one simple distal seta on article 1 of the mandibular palp and having the apical lobe of male pleopod 1 convex, rounded, armed with seven setae. A key to Asian species of the genus and 16S rRNA of the new species are provided. ...[more]