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            <p> Genus  Paramaya De Haan, 1837</p>
            <p>Type species.</p>
            <p> Pisa (Paramaya) spinigera De Haan, 1837; by monotypy. </p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/753FA61C0461743603DA2264CA7555C0	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Ng, Peter K. L.;Prema, M.;Ravichandran, S.	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.text	292DC660C8E81D67C063851D688800EC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Paramaya mulli Ng & Prema & Ravichandran 2018	<html xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
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            <p> Paramaya
mulli
 sp. n. Figs 1, 2A-C, 3A-C, 4A, B, 5A-D, H, 6, 7 </p>
            <p> Maia spinigera - Alcock 1895: 239; Alcock and Anderson 1898: pl. 34, fig. 3. </p>
            <p> Paramaya mulli Maja spinigera " - Ng and Richer de Forges 2015: 156, fig. 22B-D. </p>
            <p> Paramaya mulli Non  Pisa (Paramaya) spinigera De Haan, 1837. </p>
            <p>Material examined.</p>
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                  Holotype: male (70.4  × 61.4 mm) (CASAU),  
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                 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  × 33.5 mm) (CASAU), same data as holotype  . 
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            <p>Comparative material examined.</p>
            <p> Paramaya spinigera (De Haan, 1837):   7 males (85.0  × 66.4 mm, 78.2  × 62.1 mm, 73.6  × 55.3 mm, 68.3  × 53.4 mm, 73.8  × 58.4 mm, 62.8  × 49.0 mm, 72.8  × 57.3 mm), 1 ovigerous female (63.0  × 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)  . </p>
            <p>Diagnosis.</p>
            <p>Pseudorostral horns relatively short (Figs 2A, 3A, 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 2A, 3A); adult branchial region distinctly swollen (Fig. 3A, C); intercalated tooth on carapace relatively broad (Figs 3B, 4A, B); epistome quadrate (Fig. 5A, B); surface of thoracic sternum not prominently setose, with numerous prominent rounded granules (Figs 5C, 6B); chela of adult male with distinct carina on dorsal and ventral margins (Figs 2A, 6D); ambulatory meri in adult males relatively slender, long (Figs 2A, 5D); G1 gently curved, dorsal projection on the sub distal part low, tip distinctly rounded (Fig. 7A-C).</p>
            <p>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).</p>
            <p>Etymology.</p>
            <p> 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. </p>
            <p>Remarks.</p>
            <p> Compared to  P. spinigera , the branchial region of adult male  P. mulli sp. n. is more swollen (Fig. 3A, C) (versus gently convex in  P. spinigera ; Fig. 3D, F); the intercalated tooth on the carapace is relatively broader (Figs 3B, 4A, B) (versus more acutely triangular in  P. spinigera ; Figs 3E, 4C, D); the epistome is more quadrate (Fig. 5A, B) (versus more transversely rectangular in  P. spinigera ; Fig. 5E, F); the surface of the male thoracic sternum, especially the areas adjacent to the sternopleonal cavity is distinctly granulated with scattered setae (Fig. 5C) (versus surfaces weakly granulate with dense setae in  P. spinigera ; Fig. 5G); and the G1 has the dorsal projection on the subdistal part relatively small with the tip more prominently rounded (Fig. 7A-C)  ( versus dorsal projection on the subdistal part more developed with the tip gently tapering in  P. spinigera ; Ng and Richer de Forges 2015: fig. 23A-C). </p>
            <p> There is variation in the proportions of the ambulatory legs of  Paramaya species. In the series of specimens of  P. spinigera on hand, females generally have relatively shorter ambulatory legs compared to males. In addition, for each sex, smaller specimens have proportionately shorter and stouter legs (Fig. 5I) compared to larger ones (Fig. 5J). When comparing the holotype male  P. mulli sp. n. (70.4  × 61.4 mm, CASAU) with a similar size male of  P. spinigera from Taiwan (73.6  × 55.3 mm, ZRC 1999.738), the merus, propodus and dactylus of  P. mulli sp. n. (Fig. 5D) is significantly more slender and longer than that of  P. spinigera (Fig. 5I). In larger male specimens of  P. spinigera from Taiwan (85.0  × 66.4 mm, ZRC 1999.738), the merus is proportionately longer but is still relatively stouter (Fig. 5J). Females of both species have relatively shorter and stouter ambulatory legs compared to males (Fig. 5H). </p>
            <p> Ng and Richer de Forges (2015: 156) noted that the specimen mentioned and figured by Alcock (1895) and Alcock and Anderson (1898) as "  P. spinigera " has short  ambulatory meri, but this is probably because this specimen was small; and the larger specimen from Sri Lanka they examined a photograph has proportionately longer ambulatory legs. As discussed above, the proportions of the ambulatory meri is clearly  correlated with size. Noteworthy is that the Sri Lankan specimen also has relatively more inflated branchial regions, and as such, is almost certainly conspecific with what is described here as  P. mulli sp. n. </p>
            <p> The distinctly granulated thoracic sternum of  P. mulli sp. n. (Fig. 5C) allies the species with  P. ouch (Ng and Richer de Forges 2015: fig. 50B), but in  P. ouch , the  branchial region is not distinctly swollen, and the pseudorostral and carapace spines are proportionately longer across all size ranges in both sexes (cf. Ng and Richer de Forges 2015: figs 21E, F, 37B) (versus branchial regions more swollen and the spines are proportionately shorter in  P. mulli sp. n.; Figs 2A, 3A-C, 6E). In addition, the distal part of the G1 in  P. ouch is more strongly curved (Ng and Richer de Forges 2015: fig. 23D) with the dorsal projection on the subdistal part prominent and the tip is relatively more angular (Ng and Richer de Forges 2015: fig. 23E, F) (versus distal part of G1 less curved with the dorsal projection low and tip rounded in  P. mulli sp. n.; Fig. 7A-C). Compared to  P. mulli sp. n.,  P. coccinea has proportionately longer pseudorostral and carapace spines with the branchial region not distinctly swollen (Ng and Richer de Forges 2015: figs 22A, 37C), the male thoracic sternum is almost smooth with the granules low (Ng and Richer de Forges 2015: fig. 50C) and the dorsal projection on the subdistal part of the G1 is prominent with the tip relatively more angular (Ng and Richer de Forges 2015: fig. 23H, I) (cf. pseudorostral and carapace spines proportionately shorter, the male thoracic sternum is distinctly granulated and the dorsal  projection on the G1 subdistal part is low with the tip rounded; Figs 2A, 3A-C, 5C, 6E, 7A-C). In addition, even though the holotype male and only known specimen of  P. coccinea is about the same size as the holotype male of  P. mulli sp. n., the ambulatory meri are proportionately much longer (cf. Ng and Richer de Forges 2015: figs 22A, 70B) (versus distinctly shorter in  P. mulli sp. n.; Figs 2A, 5D). </p>
            <p> Like other  Paramaya species, the preferred habitat of  P. mulli sp. n. is probably relatively steep and rocky areas that are difficult to sample except with tangle nets (see Ng et al. 2009, Mendoza et al. 2010). As such, normal fishery operations using trawls are less likely to obtain them and could explain their apparent rarity in Indian waters. </p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/292DC660C8E81D67C063851D688800EC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Ng, Peter K. L.;Prema, M.;Ravichandran, S.	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
