Ghatiana splendida is a species of crab from India, first identified in 2016 in the Western Ghats.[1] Tejas Thackeray, among the discovers of the species, has said that "locals" to where it was first described were aware of the species and would refer to it as the "purple tree crab" or the "pink forest crab".[1] Thackeray first encountered the crab while searching for the olive forest snake.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Gecarcinucidae |
| Genus: | Ghatiana |
| Species: | G. splendida
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| Ghatiana splendida Pati, Thackeray & Khaire, 2016
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Ghatiana splendida was first described along Ghatiana atropurpurea, Gubernatoriana alcocki, Gubernatoriana thackerayi, and Gubernatoriana waghi.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c Malhotra, Richa (5 March 2016). "Meet the Western Ghats' Wonderful New Freshwater Crabs". The Wire. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
- ^ Pati, S.K.; Thackeray, T.; Khaire, A. (23 February 2016). "Five new species of freshwater crabs of the genera Ghatiana Pati & Sharma, 2014, and Gubernatoriana Bott, 1970 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae Rathbun, 1904) from the Western Ghats, India". Zootaxa. 4083 (4): 569–586. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4083.4.7. PMID 27394247. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
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