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Provedor de dados: | 16
País: | Netherlands
Título: | The freshwater crabs of Ethiopia, northeastern Africa, with the description of a new Potamonautes cave species (Brachyura: Potamonautidae)
Autores: | Cumberlidge, N.; Clark, P.F.
Data: | 2012
Ano: | 2012
Palavras-chave: | Potamonautes kundudo sp. nov.; Potamonautes antheus; Potamonautes ignestii; Freshwater crabs; Mount Kundudo; Potamoidea; 42.74.
Resumo: | A recent collection of freshwater potamonautid crabs from a newly-explored cave in Ethiopia included a new species of Potamonautes MacLeay, 1838, which is described. The new species is associated with caves but is not troglobitic because it has no special morphological adaptations for life in caves typical of other species of cave-dwelling freshwater crabs. The taxonomic status and biogeographic affinities of other Ethiopian freshwater crab species are discussed. Potamonautes antheus (Colosi, 1920) and P. ignestii (Parisi, 1923) are recognized as valid species, and a key to the species of the country is included. The addition of P. kundudo sp. nov. and the recognition of two previously suppressed taxa raises to six the number of freshwater crab taxa known to occur in Ethiopia.
Tipo: | Article / Letter to the editor

Identificador:

http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/434755

http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/464355

Formato: | application/pdf
Fonte: | Contributions to Zoology (1383-4517) vol.81 (2012) nr.4 p.235
Fonte: | (c) Naturalis