Diversity, Volume 17, Issue 10
October 2025 - 65 articles
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Cover Story: The National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN), Madrid (Spain), is one of the emblematic centres of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) with a heritage of over 250 years. The current work supposes the continuation of a review of the African marine crabs housed at the Crustacean collection of the MNCN. In this new study focused on the Thoracotremata species, 197 specimens (59 records) were reviewed, and this new study reveals similar results to Part I: 77.2% of the African Thoracotremata specimens housed in the MNCN, which were either misidentified or not identified at all. We have also used DNA barcodes (16S and COI) to confirm identifications or to add new molecular data to species without previous DNA sequences known. DNA sequences (16S and/or COI) were obtained for seven species. It has been a challenge to obtain sequences from specimens preserved 60 to 200 years ago. View this paper