| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Authors: | A. Anker, Marin I. N. |
| Journal: | Zoological Studies |
| Volume: | 46 |
| Pagination: | 162-167 |
| Date Published: | Mar |
| Abstract: | Athanas anatidactylus sp. nov. is described on the basis of a holotype specimen collected in Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam, and an additional specimen from the Bohol Sea, the Philippines. The specimen from Nhatrang Bay was collected from a crinoid host. The new species is unique within the genus Athanas in having non-enlarged, symmetrical chelipeds ending in a peculiar claw with duckbill-shaped fingers, and the 3rd maxilliped having a broadened ultimate segment, distally armed with a row of strong spines. It is closely related to A. ornithorhynchus Banner and Banner, 1973, known as a facultative symbiont of filter-feeding brittle stars. An earlier report of a crinoid-associated Athanas (Bruce 1987) suggests that A. anatidactylus sp. nov. may also occur on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. |
| URL: | <Go to ISI>://000245907900005 |