New freshwater crab genus discovered
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Genus has been named Rajathelphusa after Rajakumari
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Genus has been named Rajathelphusa after Rajakumari
Researchers have come across a new genus of freshwater crab with two new species from the Western Ghats region in Idukki district. The genus has been named
Rajathelphusa after Rajakumari, the place where the specimens were spotted.
The discovery has been published in the latest issue of
Zoological Studies by Smrithy Raj and A. Biju Kumar of the Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, University of Kerala, and Prof. Peter Ng, head, Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore, an authority on crabs. The two new species in the genus have been christened
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On March 4, 2021, a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and National Parks Board (NParks) published a paper detailing the discovery of Luciola singapura – the scientific name given to the new species discovered in Singapore s Nee Soon swamplands.
The paper stated that in 2009, a nationwide survey of Singapore s firefly population documented 11 different species, including one unidentified species that did not fit in with the descriptions of any known species of firefly at the time.
As they examined the specimens of the unidentified species at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM), the researchers noticed that they were morphologically similar (almost identical in biological structure) to specimens of an unidentified species collected in the same area between 1989 to 1990 – more than 30 y