Matuta victor (Fabricius, 1781)

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7. Matuta victor (Fabricius, 1781)

1781. Cancer victor Fabricius , Species lnsectorum Exhibentes, 2: 502.

1896. Matuta victor Alcock, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal , 65 (2):

60.

1994. Matula victor : Galil and Victor, Zool. Verh. Leiden , 294: 39, figs. 7a-b, pI. 13 a-b.

1997. Matuta victor : Ng and Huang, Zoological Studies, 36 (4): 264, figs. 1G-H and 2A-B.

2005. Matuta victor : Dev Roy and Bhadra S, Zool. Surv. India, State Fauna Series 5: Fauna of Andhra Pradesh (Pt 5): 384.

Material examined: 1ex. Shankarpur, 20.v.2014, Coll: O.P.S (Reg.no.A-4290).

Diagnosis: Carapace having minute red dots, midpalm of the chelipeds with two prominent tubercles where as the surface of palm is smooth except its lower border, dactylus very strong in male.

Distribution: India: Andaman Islands, Andhra Pradesh (East Godavari, Guntur, Nellore, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam), Maharashtra (Ratnagiri, Malabar), Odisha (Mahanadi Delta), Tamil Nadu (Hare Island, Krusadai Island, Kutikal Point, Chennai, Tuticorin; Puducherry) and West Bengal (Gangetic Delta, Sundarbans, Shankarpur, Digha, Talsari, Udaipore). Elsewhere: Australia, China, Comoros, Feejee, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Madagascar, Myanmar, Mozambique, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Norfolk, Pakistan, Peninsular Malaysia, Philippines, Red Sea, Singapore, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand