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A new species of Megalobrachium Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Anomura: Porcellanidae) from the eastern Pacific coasts of Panama and Colombia, with re-description of M. erosum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2016

Luciane Augusto de Azevedo Ferreira  and
Marcos Tavares
Luciane Augusto de Azevedo Ferreira*
Affiliation:
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Nazareth, 481, Ipiranga, 04263-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Marcos Tavares
Affiliation:
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Nazareth, 481, Ipiranga, 04263-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
*
Correspondence should be addressed to:L.A.A. Ferreira, Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Nazareth, 481, Ipiranga, 04263-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil email: lucianeaaf@gmail.com
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Abstract

A new species of porcelain crab, Megalobrachium lemaitrei n. sp., is described and illustrated from the Pacific coasts of Panama and Colombia. The new species is similar to its northern counterpart M. erosum (Glassell, 1936) in the general eroded appearance of the carapace and chelipeds, but is distinguished by the details of the carapace and cheliped ornamentation and pereopod setation. For comparison, Megalobrachium erosum is re-described on the basis of the type and other material.

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biodiversityEast PacificPanamaColombiaporcelain crab

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 97 , Issue 6 , September 2017 , pp. 1407 - 1415
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2016 

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