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Issue: Vol. 2276 No. 1: 29 Oct. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-10-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2276.1.2
Page range: 40–48
Abstract views: 26
PDF downloaded: 1

The status of Kunziana Pretzmann, 1971 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae), with a redescription of the holotype of K. irengis Pretzmann, 1971

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Caixa Postal 478, 69011-970 Manaus, AM, Brazil
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Coastal Plains Institute and Land Conservancy, 1313 Millton Street, Tallahassee, FL, 32303, and Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
Crustacea Taxonomy freshwater crabs Kunziana Pseudothelphusidae Neotropical region Amazon Guyana

Abstract

This work was prompted by the rediscovery in the Natural History Museum, Vienna, of the holotype of Eudaniella(Kunziana) irengis Pretzmann, 1971, the type species of the subgenus Eudaniella (Kunziana) Pretzmann, 1971 (familyPseudothelphusidae). Unique characters of the first male gonopod of this species warrant the recognition of KunzianaPretzmann, 1971, as a valid genus. Kunziana irengis is redescribed here from the holotype and from new materialcollected near the type locality in Guyana, South America, and its affinities with other genera of Kingsleyini are discussed.

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