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Issue: Vol. 4227 No. 2: 2 Feb. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-02-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.2.10
Page range: 295–300
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Uroptychus atlanticus, a new species of squat lobster (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Chirostylidae) from the western Atlantic Ocean

Kumamoto University, Faculty of Education, 2-40-1 Kurokami, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan.
Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3258, U.S.A.
Crustacea Squat lobster Chirostylidae Uroptychus new species western Atlantic

Abstract

A new species of squat lobster, Uroptychus atlanticus, is described on the basis of a female specimen taken at a depth of 713–841 m in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. The new species is readily distinguished from all known species of the genus from the western Atlantic by the very spinose carapace and pereopods, and a transverse row of spines on each of the abdominal tergites 1 and 2.

 

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