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Taxonomy And Nomenclature • Zoologia (Curitiba) 32 (1) • Jan-Feb 2015 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-46702015000100006   copy

A new species of Kingsleya (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae) from the Xingu River and range extension for Kingsleya junki, freshwater crabs from the southern Amazon basin

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Kingsleya castrensissp. nov., a pseudothelphusid crab is described and illustrated from the Xingu River, state of Pará, southern Amazon region, Brazil. The new species is characterized by the male first gonopod bearing a large, well-developed apical plate, with a broadly rounded, thick distal lobe. New records of Kingsleya junki Magalhães, 2003 extend the distribution of this species eastward to the Tocantins River basin, in the state of Pará, Brazil.

Amazon; Brachyura; Kingsleyini; Neotropical region; taxonomy

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