Terrathelphusa kuchingensis ( Nobili, 1901 )

Ng, Peter K. L., , Martyn E. Y. Low, Clark, & Paul F., 2022, Historical notes on various collectors of unidentified freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Malay Peninsula and Borneo, with descriptions of two new species of Isolapotamon Bott, 1968 Potamidae), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 70, pp. 550-571 : 561

Terrathelphusa kuchingensis ( Nobili, 1901)

Material examined. 2 females ( NHM 1911.2.28.4–5), Upper Sarawak, Borneo, coll. CJ. Brooks, purchased from W. Gerrard .

Remarks. It is uncertain where in “upper Sarawak ” C.J. Brooks collected his specimens from, but its possibly from the upper stretches of the Sarawak River. Brooks obtained many specimens from and around Kuching and southern Sarawak, so it is difficult to narrow where the present ones were obtained. Five species of Terrathelphusa are known from southern Sarawak ( Grinang & Ng, 2015b), and all share relatively similar carapace shapes. In the Sarawak Museum in Kuching, there are two large females collected by C.J. Brooks from Bidi, Bau, Sarawak, which were referred to T. kuchingensis ( Nobili, 1901) by Grinang & Ng, 2015b: 340), and the present specimens may have been from that lot. We therefore provisionally refer them to this species.