| Summary: | A new species of the genus Nihonotrypaea Manning & Tamaki, 1998, Nihonotrypaea
hainanensis
sp. n., collected from the South China Sea, is described and illustrated. It is distinguishable from Nihonotrypaea
harmandi (Bouvier, 1901), Nihonotrypaea
japonica (Ortmann, 1891), Nihonotrypaea
thermophila Lin, Komai & Chan, 2007 and Nihonotrypaea
makarovi Martin, 2013 by having the elongated carpus of the male and female major cheliped. The new species is distinguishable from Nihonotrypaea
petalura (Stimpson, 1860) by the proximolower margin of the carpus of the male major cheliped bearing several small denticles.
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