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Issue: Vol. 4238 No. 3: 6 Mar. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-03-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.3.4
Page range: 375–384
Abstract views: 139
PDF downloaded: 3

A new dwarf crayfish (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from floodplain swamps in central Alabama

224 Primrose Circle, Richmond, KY 40475, U.S.A.
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, U.S.A. Marine Resources Research Institute, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Charleston, SC 29422, USA
Crustacea Cambarellus Pandicambarus rotatus lesliei new species dwarf crayfish Alabama

Abstract

Cambarellus (Pandicambarus) rotatus, new species, is a dwarf crayfish from floodplain swamps in the Tombigbee and Black Warrior river drainages of Greene, Hale, and Marengo counties, Alabama. The new species is morphologically most similar to Cambarellus (Pandicambarus) lesliei. They differ in a several morphological characters. Cambarellus rotatus, new species, has gonopods that are rotated mesially so that the terminal elements oppose each other, and they have a short C-shaped sperm groove. These are unique features among known species of Cambarellus.

 

 

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