One of the authors (NS) made extensive collections of shallow water brachyurans (= crabs) of Nakagusuku Bay, southeastern Okinawa Island, from gill net at Chinen and Tozoe fishery ports between 1985 and 1987. Takeda & Shikatani (1990) already reported

The swimming crabs (family Portunidae) are distributed worldwide and commonly inhabit estuaries, mangroves, reefs, shallow and the deep sea. Previously, 75 species and 19 genera in this family were known to Taiwan. Our study examined specimens in Taiwanese

A new genus and new species of anchialine portunid crab is described from lava pools in Maui, Hawaiian Islands. Pele ramseyi new genus, new species, resembles species of Libystes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867, but differs markedly in its reduced and almost immovable

The swimming crabs (family Portunidae) are distributed worldwide and commonly inhabit estuaries, mangroves, reefs, shallow and the deep sea. Previously, 75 species and 19 genera in this family were known to Taiwan. Our study examined specimens in Taiwanese