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Calyptraeotheres Campos 1990

Description

Key to female of species of American Calyptraeotheres Campos, 1990

[after Campos (1990, 1999), Hernández-Ávila & Campos (2006), Campos & Hernández-Ávila (2010)]

1. Endopod of maxilliped 3 palp 2-segmented; no minute dactylus inserted subdistally on the ventral margin of propodus..... 2

- Endopod of maxilliped 3 palp 3-segmented; minute dactylus inserted subdistally on the ventral margin of propodus........ 5

2. Carapace with front arcuate, with short, middle, shallow depression; lateral margin subparallel; eyes not visible in dorsal view............................................................................................. C. granti

- Carapace with lateral margin arcuate; eyes visible in dorsal view................................................ 3

3. Carapace suborbicular with two cervical depressions converging posteriorly but not connecting.............. C. pepeluisi

- Cervical depressions converging and connecting posteriorly.................................................. 4

4. Carapace with front subrectangular; cervical depressions converging and connected posteriorly by T-shaped transversal depression. Posterior margin concave.......................................................... C. hernandezi

- Carapace with front arcuate, cervical depressions converging, connected posteriorly by a transversal depression. Posterior mar- gin straigth.......................................................................... C. camposi sp. nov.

5. Carapace with two cervical depressions converging, connected by a shallow, transverse V-shaped depression. Posterior margin M-shaped in the middle......................................................................... C. politus

- Cervical depressions parallel, not reaching to the transversal depression. Posterior margin rounded.............. C. garthi

Notes

Published as part of Ayón-Parente, Manuel & Hendrickx, Michel E., 2014, Calyptraeotheres sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pinnotheridae), symbiont of the slipper shell Crepidula striolata Menke, 1851 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Calyptraeidae) from the Gulf of California, Mexico, pp. 89-94 in Zootaxa 3872 (1) on page 94, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3872.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/287232

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Pinnotheridae
Genus
Calyptraeotheres
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Campos
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Calyptraeotheres Campos, 1990 sec. Ayón-Parente & Hendrickx, 2014

References

  • Campos, E. (1990) Calyptraeotheres, a new genus of Pinnotheridae for the limpet-crab Fabia granti Glassell, 1933 (Crustacea, Brachyura). Proccedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 103, 364 - 371.
  • Campos, E. (1999) Inclusion of the austral species Pinnotheres politus (Smith, 1869 [sic]) and Pinnotheres garthi Fenucci, 1975 with the genus Calyptraeotheres Campos, 1990 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae). Proccedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 112, 536 - 540.
  • Hernandez-Avila, I. & Campos, E. (2006) Calyptraeotheres hernandezi (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae), a new crab symbiont of the West Indian cup-and-saucer Crucibulum auricula (Gmelin) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Calyptraeidae) off Cubagua Island, Venezuela. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 119 (1), 43 - 48. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2988 / 0006 - 324 x (2006) 119 [43: chcbpa] 2.0. co; 2
  • Campos, E. & Hernandez-Avila, I. (2010) Phylogeny of Calyptraeotheres Campos, 1990 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Pinnotheridae) with the description of C. pepeluisi new species from the tropical Mexican Pacific. Zootaxa, 2691, 41 - 52.