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Issue: Vol. 4171 No. 2: 28 Sept. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-09-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.2.9
Page range: 365–372
Abstract views: 93
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A new and endangered species of Kingsleya Ortmann, 1897 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae) from Ceará, northeastern Brazil

Universidade do Sagrado Coração – USC, Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação, Rua Irmã Arminda, 10-50, Jd. Brazil, 17011-160, Bauru, SP, Brazil. Departamento de Ciências Físicas e Biológicas, Universidade Regional do Cariri, URCA, 63100-000 Crato CE, Brazil.
Universidade do Sagrado Coração – USC, Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação, Rua Irmã Arminda, 10-50, Jd. Brazil, 17011-160, Bauru, SP, Brazil.
Crustacea Amazon Basin freshwater crabs Kingsleyini IUCN Red list species diversity

Abstract

A new species of freshwater crab, Kingsleya attenboroughi n. sp., from the Arajara district, Ceará state, Brazil, is described and illustrated. The new species differs from congeners by having a short apical plate in the first gonopod, with anteriorly directed lobes and proximally angular; proximal lobe of the apical plate with conspicuous semicircular protuberance in mesial and sternal views; marginal process protruded, projecting mesially in sternal view and subquadrate in mesial view; and field of apical spines narrow, tapering distally, with small spines concentrated proximally. Opportunity is taken to illustrate K. gustavoi Magalhães, 2005, the closest allied species of K. attenboroughi n. sp. A key for the species of Kingsleya Ortmann, 1897 is provided.

 

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