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Type: Article
Published: 2015-10-19
Page range: 444–450
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A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Kingsleya Ortmann, 1897 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae) from Amazonia, Brazil

Graduate Program in Systematics, Animal Taxonomy and Biodiversity.
Museum of Zoology, University of São Paulo, Ave. Nazareth 481, Ipiranga 04263-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Crustacea Amazonian lowland biodiversity freshwater crabs Pseudothelphusidae Kingsleyini Pará State

Abstract

A new species of freshwater crab, Kingsleya celioi, from the Brazilian Amazon (Pará State) is described and illustrated. The new species can be easily separated from their congeners by a suite of morphological characters, including the apical plate of the first gonopod large, widest medially in abdominal view, with single large spine-like outgrowth in midlength of mesial margin; distal, proximal lobes of apical plate unequal in size, distal lobe largest, tapering distally in lateral view.