Parastacus guapo Huber, Araujo & Ribeiro, 2022

Ribeiro, Felipe Bezerra & Araujo, Paula Beatriz, 2024, Taxonomic review of the genus Parastacus Huxley, 1879 (Decapoda: Astacidea: Parastacidae) with description of five new species, Zootaxa 5455 (1), pp. 1-84 : 49-50

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scientific name	Parastacus guapo Huber, Araujo & Ribeiro, 2022
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Parastacus guapo Huber et al. 2022: 254 View Cited Treatment , 276 (key), figs. 1–6).— De los Ríos-Escalante et al. 2022: 1129 (appendix), fig. 1h.— Huber et al. 2024: 14 (key).

Type locality. Pantano Grande, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil ( Huber et al. 2022). Diagnosis and Description. Huber et al. (2022).

Distribution. Brazil: state of Rio Grande do Sul ( Huber et al. 2022).

Color of live specimens. Huber et al. (2022) ( Fig. 30 View FIGURE 30 ).

Habitat. Wetlands ( Huber et al. 2022). This species builds deep burrows with 1-4 interconnected tunnels (up to 1m) ending in a life chamber, and the entries of the galleries are delimited by simple holes or by chimneys, which can reach up to 8 cm high and wide. Burrows of P. guapo can be identified as type 1a, b according to Horwitz and Richardson’s (1986) classification and the species can be considered a primary burrower based on Hobbs’ (1942) classification ( Huber et al. 2022).

References

Huber, A. F., Araujo, P. B. & Ribeiro, F. B. (2022) The hole is deeper: description of two new species within the Parastacus brasiliensis (von Martens, 1869) species complex with an integrative taxonomy approach. Zootaxa, 5168 (3), 251 - 284. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5168.3.1.

Huber, A. F., Araujo, P. B. & Ribeiro, F. B. (2024) A new freshwater crayfish species of Parastacus Huxley, 1879 (Malacostraca, Decapoda, Parastacidae) from southern Brazil. Nauplius, 32, e 20230496. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / 2358 - 2936 e 20230496

De los Rios-Escalante, P. R., Jara-Seguel, P., Contreras, A., Latsague, M., Lara, G., Rudolph, E. & Crandall, K. A. (2022) Distributional patterns of the South American species of Parastacidae (Decapoda, Astacidea). Crustaceana, 95 (10 - 12), 1123 - 1136. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 15685403 - bja 10247