Metaplax elegans De Man, 1888
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Metaplax elegans De Man, 1888 |
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Metaplax elegans De Man, 1888 View in CoL
Metaplax elegans View in CoL — Gordon 1931: 528; Shen 1940a: 236; Davie 1992a: 352, pl. 2B; SY Lee and Leung 1999: 68, pl. 11; WPW
Kwok and Tang 2005: 3, fig. 4.
Taxonomy: De Man (1888b), Davie (1992a), Shih et al. (2019).
Type: Syntypes RMNH D 13 ( Fransen et al. 1997), NHM 1886.52 (NHM Data Portal), and probably also in ZSI (as Indian Museum, Calcutta in original text).
Type locality: Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar.
Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean and South China Sea: East India, Mergui Archipelago, Phuket ( Thailand), Malaysia, to South China and Taiwan ( Shih et al. 2019).
Habitat: Intertidal; on mudflats under mangroves.
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Metaplax elegans De Man, 1888
Wong, Kingsley J. H., Ng, Peter K. L., Shih, Hsi-Te & Chan, Benny K. K. 2024 |
Metaplax elegans
Lee SY & Leung V. 1999: 68 |
Davie PJF 1992: 352 |
Shen C-J. 1940: 236 |
Gordon I. 1931: 528 |