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Issue: Vol. 1406 No. 1: 12 Feb. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-02-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1406.1.5
Page range: 41–46
Abstract views: 72
PDF downloaded: 53

Redescription of Pylocheles (Bathycheles) cubensis Ortiz & Gómez, 1986, the senior synonym of Pylocheles (B.) chacei Forest, 1987 (Decapoda, Anomura, Paguroidea, Pylochelidae)

Shannon Point Marine Center, Western Washington University, 1900 Shannon Point Road, Anacortes, WA 98221–9081B, U.S.A .
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, D. C. 20013–7012, U.S.A.
Centro de Investigaciones Marinas, Universidad de La Habana, Calle 16 # 114 entre 1ra y 3ra, Miramar, Playa, C. Habana, CUBA.
Anomura Paguroidea Pylochelidae Pylocheles Bathycheles P. (B.) cubensis P. (B.) chacei deep-water Western Atlantic

Abstract

A reexamination of the holotypes of Pylocheles cubensis Ortiz & Gómez, 1986 and Pylocheles (Bathycheles) chacei Forest, 1987 has shown that these two deep-water taxa are identical. Pylocheles cubensis is the senior synonym and is assigned to the subgenus Bathycheles Forest, 1987, replacing P. (B.) chacei as the single Western Atlantic representative of the subgenus. Pylocheles (Bathycheles) cubensis is redescribed and illustrated.

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