An annotated and illustrated checklist of the porcelain crabs of Panama (Decapoda: Anomura)
Author
Ferreira, Luciane Augusto De Azevedo
0000-0003-1683-9962
Author
Anker, Arthur
0000-0002-5350-4267
arthuranker7@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-09-27
5045
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5045.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5045.1.1
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Pachycheles cristobalensis
Gore, 1970
(
Fig. 24
)
Pachycheles cristobalensis
Gore 1970: 958
, figs. 1, 2;
Gore & Abele 1976: 19
;
Gore 1982: 8
;
Rodríguez
et al.
2005: 555
, pl. 1, fig. E;
Vargas
&
Cortés
2006: 463
.
Material examined
.
Panama
[Caribbean]:
1 male
, cl 5.0, cw 6.1 (
MZUSP 33479
), about
3 km
west of
Portobelo
, near-shore reef flat, sand with abundant coral rubble and some seagrass, depth
0.5–1.5 m
, in coral rocks, leg.
A. Anker
&
J.F. Lazarus-Agudelo
,
25.03.2015
.
Previous records from
Panama
.
Gore (1970
,
1982
);
Gore & Abele (1976)
;
Rodríguez
et al.
, 2005
.
Distribution
. West Atlantic:
Costa Rica
and
Panama
(
Bocas del Toro
, Bahía Limón / Caribbean entrance to
Panama
Canal, Punta Galeta, Portobelo) (
Gore 1970
,
1982
;
Rodríguez
et al.
2005
;
Vargas & Cortés 2006
).
Remarks
.
Pachycheles cristobalensis
is presently known exclusively from the Caribbean coast of
Panama
and
Costa Rica
. The species closely resembles
P. serratus
,
with which it sometimes co-occurs, but can be distinguished from the latter by the presence of a distinct conical tubercle on the first movable antennal article; the lack of setae on the dorsal surface of the P1; the presence of a large tubercle on the cutting edge of the P1 dactylus; and the absence of pleopods in males (
Gore 1970
). The colour pattern of
P. cristobalensis
is rather inconspicuous (
Fig. 24
) and resembles that of
P. serratus
and
P. chacei
(see also colour photograph in
Rodríguez
et al.
2005
).