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Issue: Vol. 1447 No. 1: 12 Apr. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-04-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1447.1.4
Page range: 57–62
Abstract views: 82
PDF downloaded: 26

A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Microthelphusa (Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae) from a remote isolated cloud forest on a tabletop mountain in western Guyana, South America

Department of Biology, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan 49855, USA
Crustacea Brachyura Pseudothelphusidae Microthelphusa freshwater crab taxonomy new species tepui Wokomung Massif Guyana

Abstract

A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Microthelphusa Pretzmann, 1968, from Guyana, South America is described.  Microthelphusa meansi, new species, was collected from a remote isolated cloud forest in the Wokomung Massif, a tabletop mountain (tepui) in western Guyana at over 1,000 m above sea level.  The conspicuous horseshoe-like marginal lobe and the dome-like auxiliar cephalic lobe of the first gonopod clearly distinguish this species from all 12 congeners.

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