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Two specimens of buckler crab were collected from the southeast coast of Bangladesh in August-September 2017. The crabs were examined morphologically and identified as Cryptopodia angulata (H. Milne Edwards and Lucas 1841), which is the only species of the genus Cryptopodia belonging to family Parthenopidae, occurring in the marine environment of Bangladesh. The genus Cryptopodia (H. Milne Edwards 1834) is distributed in the IndoWest Pacific, Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and includes 13 species (Chiong and Ng 1998, Ng et al. 2008, WoRMS 2018a). These crabs have expanded margins of the carapace that completely hides the walking legs when they are folded (Chiong and Ng 1998), but no congener of Cryptopodia has been described from Bangladesh. Incidentally, Banu and Huda (1987) hinted the occurrence of C. angulata (H. Milne Edwards and Lucas 1841) at Chittagong coast in the early 1980s by referring to a manuscript in preparation (Banu and Huda 1987). Any published article in the subsequent years could not be traced out during our extensive literature survey; presumably it was never published. Those specimens of C. angulata were not even found in the museum of Department of Zoology at the University of Chittagong, where both the authors worked until retirement. But, literature suggests that Zoological Reference Collection (ZRC) of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (formerly Raffles Museum), National University of Singapore has the collection of Bangladesh specimen of C. angulata (Chiong and Ng 1998, Fatemi et al. 2012). However, to our knowledge, there is no published literature on the report of C. angulata from Bangladesh. The buckler crabs were collected during cruises of ‘RV Meen Sandhani’, a survey and research vessel operated by the Department of Fisheries, Government of Bangladesh. Using shrimp trawl net, the crabs were caught from a location 63 km off the Inani coast of Cox’s Bazar district lying on 20.83683°N, 91.56342°E at water depths of 67 m (Fig. 1). Environmental variables were not recorded, but past oceanographic records suggest that water temperature and

First description of buckler crab Cryptopodia angulata (H. Milne Edwards and Lucas 1841) from Bangladesh marine water