taxonID	type	description	language	source
292DC660C8E81D67C063851D688800EC.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype: male (70.4 x 61.4 mm) (CASAU), Pazhayar fish landing centre, facing Bay of Bengal, Tamil Nadu, India, 11 ° 21 ' 11.5 " N, 79 ° 45 ' 26.3 " E, from trawls, coll. M. Prema and S. Ravichandran, 7 February 2018. Paratype: 1 female (40.0 x 33.5 mm) (CASAU), same data as holotype.	en	Ng, Peter K. L., Prema, M., Ravichandran, S. (2018): A new species of deep-water spider crab of the genus Paramaya De Haan, 1837 from the Bay of Bengal, India (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majidae). ZooKeys 769: 77-88, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.769.26152, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.769.26152
292DC660C8E81D67C063851D688800EC.taxon	materials_examined	Comparative material examined. Paramaya spinigera (De Haan, 1837): 7 males (85.0 x 66.4 mm, 78.2 x 62.1 mm, 73.6 x 55.3 mm, 68.3 x 53.4 mm, 73.8 x 58.4 mm, 62.8 x 49.0 mm, 72.8 x 57.3 mm), 1 ovigerous female (63.0 x 48.6 mm) (ZRC 1999.738), Longtong, near Keelung, northern Taiwan, in tangle nets for lobsters, coll. S-H Wu, May 1999. For other material of Paramaya species, see Ng and Richer de Forges (2015).	en	Ng, Peter K. L., Prema, M., Ravichandran, S. (2018): A new species of deep-water spider crab of the genus Paramaya De Haan, 1837 from the Bay of Bengal, India (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majidae). ZooKeys 769: 77-88, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.769.26152, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.769.26152
292DC660C8E81D67C063851D688800EC.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Pseudorostral horns relatively short (Figs 2 A, 3 A, B); hepatic, lateral and branchial spines long; median row with 5 spines: 3 gastric, 1 cardiac, 1 intestinal; 2 spines on posterior carapace margin (Figs 2 A, 3 A); adult branchial region distinctly swollen (Fig. 3 A, C); intercalated tooth on carapace relatively broad (Figs 3 B, 4 A, B); epistome quadrate (Fig. 5 A, B); surface of thoracic sternum not prominently setose, with numerous prominent rounded granules (Figs 5 C, 6 B); chela of adult male with distinct carina on dorsal and ventral margins (Figs 2 A, 6 D); ambulatory meri in adult males relatively slender, long (Figs 2 A, 5 D); G 1 gently curved, dorsal projection on the sub distal part low, tip distinctly rounded (Fig. 7 A-C). Colour. Freshly obtained specimens have the dorsal surfaces orangish-red, with red and white bands on ambulatory legs; chelipeds yellowish-orange with white fingers; ventral surfaces white with patches of orange (Fig. 1).	en	Ng, Peter K. L., Prema, M., Ravichandran, S. (2018): A new species of deep-water spider crab of the genus Paramaya De Haan, 1837 from the Bay of Bengal, India (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majidae). ZooKeys 769: 77-88, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.769.26152, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.769.26152
292DC660C8E81D67C063851D688800EC.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named after the famous Mulli plant in Tamil mythology, from the classic poetic work Kurunthogai. Mulli is a coastal plant (Spinifex littoreus (Burm. f.) Merr., family Poaceae) with very sharp spines (mull is the Tamil word for spiny), a character shared with the present species. The name is used as a noun in apposition.	en	Ng, Peter K. L., Prema, M., Ravichandran, S. (2018): A new species of deep-water spider crab of the genus Paramaya De Haan, 1837 from the Bay of Bengal, India (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majidae). ZooKeys 769: 77-88, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.769.26152, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.769.26152
