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Issue: Vol. 2427 No. 1: 15 Apr. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-04-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2427.1.5
Page range: 47–54
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 15

A new cave species of Cryphiops (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Southern Mexico

Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”. Vía della Ricerca Scientifica I-00133 Roma Italy
Laboratorio de Bioespeleología y Carcinología
Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva y Genética de Poblaciones. Universidad de Quintana Roo -Cozumel (UQROO-Cozumel). División de Desarrollo Sustentable, Dpto. Ciencias y Humanidades. Avenida Andrés Quintana Roo s/n, C. P. 77640, Cozumel, Quintana Roo, México.
Crustacea Cryphiops Stygobitic Shrimps Mexico

Abstract

The second cave species of the genus Cryphiops from Chiapas, Mexico is described. Cryphiops sbordonii sp. nov. is similar to Cryphiops luscus in exhibiting reduced eyes, and an enlargement of ambulatory appendages. It differs from this species in ornamentation of the rostrum, proportions of the articles of the first and the second pereiopods, and proportion between the length of the appendix masculina and the length of the appendix interna, as well as the disposition and the number of the setae on the appendix masculina. Cryphiops sbordonii new species occurs in the Cueva Chamburro, a cave located in the Margaritas Region of Chiapas, southern Mexico.

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