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Issue: Vol. 1607 No. 1: 3 Oct. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-10-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1607.1.5
Page range: 57–62
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 19

Parapinnixa bolagnosi, a new species of pinnotherid crab from Cubagua Island and Los Frailes Archipelago, Venezuela (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)

Laboratorio de Zoología, Escuela de Ciencias Aplicadas del Mar, Universidad de Oriente, Boca del Río, Margarita Island, Venezuela
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Apartado Postal 296, Ensenada, Baja California, 22800 México
Crustacea Brachyura Pinnotheridae Parapinnixa bolagnosi new species Caribbean Venezuela

Abstract

Parapinnixa bolagnosi new species, is described from Cubagua Island and Los Frailes Archipelago in the Caribbean Sea off Venezuela based on female specimens. The new species is distinguished from the other nominal species of the genus by having a third maxilliped with a biarticulated palp and by the absence of an exopod. The description of the genus Parapinnixa Holmes, 1894, is amended to accommodate these two distinctive characters.

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