Nisfa Hanim‡, Achmad Farajallah, Vinna Windy Putri‡Corresponding author: Achmad Farajallah ( achamad@apps.ipb.ac.id ) © Nisfa Hanim, Achmad Farajallah, Vinna Putri. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Hanim N, Farajallah A, Putri VW (2021) Emerita pangandaranensis sp. nov., a new sand crab (Anomura: Hippidae) from South Coast of Java, Indonesia. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e72509 |  |
The report of genus Emerita from Indonesia has only contained one species, namely Emerita emeritus. They were found on the west coast of Sumatera and the south coast of Java. Although Indonesia is the number two country in the world that has long beaches and is dominated by sandy beaches, as the preferred habitat for sand crabs, reports regarding these biotas in Indonesia are still limited. The previous studies have expected about the occurrence of the other species which was related to Emerita emeritus in Southern Java.
We reported the new species of Emerita which was found in Pangandaran beach, West Java. We found it in an intertidal area, near Citonjong Estuary. Here, we described and illustrated the species.