In memoriam: Dr Ng Ngan Kee
Written by Dr Tan Swee Hee, Associate Director One of the most unusual crabs in Asia is Xenograpsus testudinatus, an enigmatic graspid crab found in the hydrothermal vents systems […]
READ MOREA Gem from the Mangroves of Kerala, India: New Tree-climbing Crab Species
This section first appeared in NUS Research News on 30 September 2020. A new species of tree-spider crab, Leptarma biju, has been uncovered from the mangroves in Kerala, India, by researchers from the […]
READ MOREResearch Highlights – August 2017
We feature some new research from our resident carcinologists, published recently in August. A star is born (Pariphiculus stellatus Ng & Jeng, 2017) This new species of crab possesses peculiar star-shaped tubercles on its body—which is why it was given the epithet, stellatus, which means ‘star-like’ or ‘starry’ in Latin. The new crab species was
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