A new species of blind mole crab of the genus Zygopa Holthuis, 1961 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) from Cuba
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A new species of blind mole crab of genus Zygopa is described. Z. lalanai n. sp. differs from the two known species, by having the eyes plate with rounded sides; a carapace groove settled in both sides between (CG-6) and left and right lateral borders; by bearing a big tooth on basal part inner face of dactylus on left cheliped, as well as by having the tip of the dactyli on pereopods 2 and 3 rounded. Z. lalanai n. sp. represents the first species of Zygopa for Cuba, and South Eastern Gulf of Mexico. Is the third species known all over the world.
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Anomura, Albunoidea, mole crab, new species, Cuba
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Ortiz, M., F. Ocaña y R. Lalana 2013. Clave ilustrada para identificar los cangrejos topos (Decapoda, Anomura, Hippoidea) de las aguas marinas cubanas, con un nuevo registro. Revista cubana de Ciencias Biológicas, 2 (2): 31-40.
Reames, R. C., R. W. Heard y T. S. Hopkins. 1982. Records of Zygopa michaelis Holthuis, 1960 (Decapoda: Anomura: Albunidae) from the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf Research Reports, 7 (2): 171-173.
Selene, R. y A. F. Umali. 1965. A Review of philippine Albuneidae with descriptions of two new species. The Philippine Journal of Science, 94 (1): 67-116.
Calado, T. C. Dos S. 1998. Malacostraca - Eucarida. Hippoidea. In: Young, P.S. (ed.). Catalogue of Crustacea of Brazil. Rio de Janeiro: Museu Nacional, 407-411 (Série Livros n. 6).
Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy y R. Lemaitre, 2009. 59 Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. With comments on the Amphionidacea. En Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota 1, Biodiversity. Felder D. L. y D. K. Camp (editores) :1019-1104.
Gore, R. H. y L. J. Becker. 1977. Zygopa michaelis Holthuis, 1960: a first record and range extension to the continental United States (Decapoda Anomura, Albuneidae). Crustaceana, 33: 2219–221.
Holthuis, L. 1961. Notes on the American Albunidae (Crustacea; Decapoda, Anomura) with the description of a new genus and species. Proceedings of the Biological and Medical Sciences, Amsterdam, 64 (1): 21-36.
Ortiz, M., F. Ocaña y R. Lalana 2013. Clave ilustrada para identificar los cangrejos topos (Decapoda, Anomura, Hippoidea) de las aguas marinas cubanas, con un nuevo registro. Revista cubana de Ciencias Biológicas, 2 (2): 31-40.
Reames, R. C., R. W. Heard y T. S. Hopkins. 1982. Records of Zygopa michaelis Holthuis, 1960 (Decapoda: Anomura: Albunidae) from the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf Research Reports, 7 (2): 171-173.
Selene, R. y A. F. Umali. 1965. A Review of philippine Albuneidae with descriptions of two new species. The Philippine Journal of Science, 94 (1): 67-116.
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Ortiz, M. (2015). A new species of blind mole crab of the genus Zygopa Holthuis, 1961 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) from Cuba. Novitates Caribaea, (8), 82–94. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i8.45
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